Starring: LeBron James, Don Cheadle, Sonequa Martin-Green, Zendaya, Gabriel Iglesias, J. Michael Tatum
When LeBron James and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.’s digitized champions on the court: a powered-up roster of professional basketball stars as you’ve never seen them before. It’s Tunes versus Goons in the highest-stakes challenge of his life, that will redefine LeBron’s bond with his son and shine a light on the power of being yourself.
Starring: Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina
Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when sinister monsters known as the Druun threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, those same monsters have returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the last dragon in order to finally stop the Druun for good. However, along her journey, she’ll learn that it’ll take more than dragon magic to save the world–it’s going to take trust as well.
Starring: Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Bird, Muggsy Bogues, Wayne Knight, Bill Murray, Billy West
Basketball superstar Michael Jordan and cartoon favorite Bugs Bunny team up with other basketball greats and Looney Tunes characters in this combination animated/live-action feature. Jordan must help the Looney Tunes gang with a basketball game against a group of outer space creatures whose plan, if they win, is to kidnap the Looney Tunes and take them to a failing intergalactic amusement park as the latest attraction.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel
Introduced by Payton McCarty-Simas, author of the new book One Step Short of Crazy: National Treasure and the Landscape of American Conspiracy Culture
To clear his family name, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is on a lifelong quest to find the fabled Templar Treasure, which his family claims was hidden by the Freemason Founding Fathers. Armed only with his encyclopedic knowledge of American history, Gates, his conspiracy theorist/hacker sidekick, Riley (Justin Bartha), must solve riddles and find clues with the FBI hot on their trail. They quickly realize that the only way to find the treasure… is to steal the Declaration of Independence.
One Step Short of Crazy will be available for purchase at the screening.
In this book, film critic Payton McCarty-Simas explores the surprisingly tangled relationship between the thriving ecosystem of American conspiracy theory and the National Treasure franchise. Beginning with a critical analysis of the films’ own dense narrative relationships to several famous conspiracy theories, the author then turns to the way the films have themselves become a part of the framework for a range of conspiracies online, on the History channel, and in our culture more broadly.
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner
CHAPO TRAP HOUSE joins us live in Williamsburg to discuss the nefarious plot to redevelop Toon Town.
Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant is hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit, the sultry wife of Maroon’s biggest star, Roger Rabbit. But when Marvin Acme, Jessica’s alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom vows to catch and destroy Roger.
This film chronicles the bitter and violent struggle waged by coal miners during a strike in 1973 in Eastern Kentucky against the Eastover Mining Company. The documentary focuses on the miners and their families’ fight for decent living standards in an area where many still live in shacks with no indoor plumbing and work at jobs with little security and dangerous conditions.
Starring: Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, John Ratzenberger
Screening in 2D
Set in a suburban fantasy world, Disney-Pixar’s Onward introduces two teenage elf brothers who embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin
Scientist Lionel Barrett (Clive Revill) and his wife, Ann (Gayle Hunnicutt), lead a team into the infamous Belasco House, supposedly haunted by the victims of its late owner, a notorious serial killer. Though the rational Barrett does not believe in ghosts, the other members of his group do, include devout spiritualist Florence Tanner (Pamela Franklin) and psychic medium Benjamin Fischer (Roddy McDowall), who has been in Belasco House before and seen what horrors can befall those who enter it.
Delia Derbyshire (Composer)
Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music who carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. She has been referred to as “the unsung heroine of British electronic music”, having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital. Her only film score was to 1973’s Legend of Hell House.
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Jacqueline Bisset
Elegant, escapist entertainment at its stylishly European best. This Agatha Christie whodunit boasts an incredible international cast as some of the most wonderfully eccentric characters ever created. Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for her slightly dim-witted, Bible-quoting Swedish missionary. Albert Finney is the dapper detective Hercule Poirot, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train’s Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionaire before the local police arrive. Packed with sparkling dialogue and visually rich in texture, this incomparable thriller received six Academy Award nominations.
Anne V. Coates (Editor)
Anne V. Coates, ACE and OBE, edited more than 60 films in a prolific career that lasted for six decades. One of cinema’s most influential film editors, she was best known for her work on David Lean’s 1962 classic, Lawrence of Arabia, for which she won an Academy Award. She received further Oscar nominations for Becket (1964), directed by Peter Glenville; The Elephant Man (1980), by David Lynch; In the Line of Fire (1993), by Wolfgang Petersen; and Out of Sight (1998), by Steven Soderbergh. – American Cinema Editors.
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, James Corden, John Cleese, Russel Brand, Christine Baranski
Trolls is an irreverent comedy extravaganza with incredible music! From the genius creators of Shrek, Trolls stars Anna Kendrick as Poppy, the optimistic leader of the Trolls, and her polar opposite, Branch, played by Justin Timberlake. Together, this unlikely pair of Trolls must embark on an adventure that takes them far beyond the only world they’ve ever known.
