21 April
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THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT Director: Tom GormicanStarring: Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Lily Sheen, Neil Patrick Harris Say what you will about Nicolas Cage and the trajectory of his career, but he has the role of a lifetime as Nick Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The Oscar winning actor has been through it all in his career from massive blockbuster action films (The Rock) to comedies (Raising Arizona) to smaller, obscure indie films (Mandy). The character of Nick Cage thinks he’s found the defining role of his career only to find out he didn’t getRead More →

19 December
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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney RothmanStarring: Shamiek Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Bryan Tyree Henry, MahershalaAli, Zoe Kravitz, Nicolas Cage, John Mulaney, and Lily Tomlin Miles Morales (Moore) is a young kid who’s been transferred to new private school and has a hard time fitting in. While out late one night creating graffiti in the subway station, he’s bitten by a radio active spider. He’s suddenly gifted super powers, but he doesn’t quite know what to do with them until he learns about the death of Peter Parker/Spider-Man. He feels the calling to become the new Spider-Man but first needs to go throughRead More →

16 September
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SNOWDEN Director: Oliver Stone Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, Scott Eastwood, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Timothy Olyphant Director Oliver Stone is no stranger at tackling controversial true-life subjects. His latest is that of infamous whistleblower Edward Snowden, here played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film is shaped around Snowden’s filmed confession in 2013 where he identifies himself as the man who leaked thousands of classified documents as evidence to how the government tracks our every move. He opens up with documentarian Laura Poitras (Leo) and two journalists from The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald (Quinto) and Ewen MacAskill (Wilkinson) in aRead More →