Fri Feb 19, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Jeb Stuart
Adapted from the acclaimed book of the same name by prize-winning author and African- American studies scholar Timothy Tyson. The film takes place in the 1970’s in Oxford, NC and explores the racial upheaval—and ensuing social change—provoked by the acquittal of a white father and son accused of murdering a black man in cold blood and in full public view. Nate Parker, an activist in his own right, stars as nota ...
Fri Feb 19, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Roman Polanski
Based on the novel by Robert Harris, this tells the story of a former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who is holed up on an island off the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. in midwinter, writing his memoirs. When his long-standing aide drowns, a professional ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is sent out to help him finish the book. The anonymous ghost writer is quickly drawn into a political and sexual int ...
Fri Feb 19, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Julio DePietro
Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth (Alexis Bledel) wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy (Scott Porter), a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications arise in the form of Tommy's sensitive and handsome co-worker D ...
Fri Feb 19, 2010
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Mitchell Lichtenstein
Written by Lichtenstein, this follows Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy something-year-old father Joe (Rip Torn). Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs ful ...
Fri Feb 19, 2010
Wide Release
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Based on the novel "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis, the atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital. He'd been gunning for an assignment on the island for reasons of his own -- but before lo ...
