Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley star in this biopic about mathematician Alan Turing. During World War II, Turing (Cumberbatch) is hired by the British government to join a top team of code-breakers, fellow members of which include Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode) and Joan Clarke (Knightley), who are tasked by MI6 chief Stewart Menzies (Mark Strong) […]
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Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi directs this look back at the 50 year history of the New York Review of Books. In 1963, founders Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, along with publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth and writer Elizabeth Hardwick, took advantage of the New York printers’ strike to establish the New York Review of
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A hijab-clad female vampire stalks people in an Iranian ghost town in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Bad City is an Iranian ghost town home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls. Little do these foul residents know that they are stalked at night by a female vampire (Sheila Vand), who looks
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Clint Eastwood directs this film about the “most lethal sniper in U.S. history.” Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) is a Texas man, whose father taught him to be a sheepdog, who “protects others from wolves”. After a failed career as a cowboy, Chris enlists as Navy SEAL and trains to become a sniper. Shortly after his
The fight for the voting rights of African Americans is at the centre of the historical drama Selma. Shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for leading the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) sets his sights on the town of Selma, Alabama, which imposes strict restrictions on black citizens, who try
A young Norwegian girl tries to make a life for herself in this debut feature film by Andrew Huculiak of the Vancouver-based rock band We Are The City. Dagny (Dagny Backer Johnsen) is a young Norwegian woman, who is trying to escape her small town life. As she adapts to this independent lifestyle, Dagny has
Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras completes her trilogy about post-9/11 America with this film about the man who blew the whistle on wiretapping and information collection done by the NSA. In January 2013, Laura Poitras receives a series of encrypted e-mail from a man calling himself “citizen four.” The contact is ready and willing to blow
Rob Marshall (Chicago) directs this big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. A baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) live in a village and are desperate for a child. The couple are confronted by a witch (Meryl Streep), who tells them that they can’t have kids because
