27 February
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TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Director: David Blue GarciaStarring: Elsie Fisher, Jacob Latimore, Mark Burnham, Olwen Fouéré, Alice Krige, Sarah Yarkin, Nell Hudson There’s no stopping the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise as we’ve seen a new entry released in every decade dating back to the iconic original from 1974. The creative team of director David Blue Garcia and writer Chris Thomas Delvin set the ninth entry in the same world as the original as we’re reminded that final girl Sally Hardesty was the sole survivor of Leatherface’s reign of terror. Now close to fifty years later, a group of four friends is traveling to the abandoned ghostRead More →

03 August
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DETROIT Director: Kathryn Bigelow Starring: Will Poulter, John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Jack Reynor, John Krasinski, Ben O’Toole I never walk into a Kathryn Bigelow film thinking it’s time to sit back, relax, and mindlessly take in entertainment. The Oscar winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty isn’t interested in making those kinds of popcorn movies. Instead, she takes you inside a modern day headline hoping to get you thinking and talking about an issue affecting society. In Detroit, she goes back to the race riots in Detroit during July 1967. The movie starts with members ofRead More →

15 December
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COLLATERAL BEAUTY Director: David Frankel Starring: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Jacob Latimore, Naomie Harris, Ann Dowd Sometimes you need those movies that are a little bit schmaltzy to put you in just the right mood for Christmas. It can be a hard time for people who have lost a loved one whether it’s a child, parent, or significant other. This film is for that audience. You could consider Collateral Beauty a Christmas movie as the whole thing is set at that time, yet the script doesn’t directly refer to the holiday as much as you would expect.Read More →