THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL
Rating: M (Coarse language)
Duration: 111 mins
Director: Michael Cristofe
Cast: Jessica Lange, Lily Rabe,
Pierce Brosnan, Kathy Bates
Genre: Drama
Opens: June 5
Jessica Lange plays Lillian Hall, an actress who is synonymous with Broadway – she has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Not for her daughter, not for illness, not for any reason. Yet in the rehearsals leading to her next Broadway production, her once formidable confidence is smashed when remembering her lines becomes a challenge. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most… Powerhouse performances from Jessica, Pierce and Kathy.
MATERIALISTS
Rating: CTC
Duration: 115 mins
Director: Celine Song
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal
Genre: Comedy, romance
Opens: June 12
Written and Directed by Celine Song, who brought us the divine Korean film PAST LIVES. This time, a classy Rom Com that we simply aren’t seeing enough of these days. A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
28 YEARS LATER
Rating: CTC
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell
Genre: Thriller, sci-fi, horror
It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE
Rating: M (Coarse language)
Duration: 98 mins
Director: Laura Piani
Cast: Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Annabelle Lengronne, Liz Crowther, Charlie Anson
Genre: Comedy, drama, romance
Language: French with English subtitles
Agathe is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris, while she dreams of being a successful writer, and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writers block. When Agathe’s best friend gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment…and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle. Agathe must let go of her insecurities to decide what she really wants for herself, and to achieve her romantic and professional dreams.
ONE TO ONE: JOHN AND YOKO
Rating: CTC
Duration: 104 mins
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Stevie Wonder
Genre: Music, documentary
On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving The Beatles, the One to One benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, a rollicking, dazzling performance from him and Yoko Ono. Oscar winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s riveting documentary takes that legendary musical event and uses it as the starting point to explore eighteen defining months in the lives of John and Yoko. By 1971 the couple were newly arrived in the United States – living in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watching a huge amount of American television.
The film uses a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the screen: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite, The Waltons. As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest – ultimately leading to the One to One concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.
Filmed in a meticulously faithful reproduction of the NYC apartment the duo shared, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO offers a bold new take on a seminal time in the lives of two of history’s most influential artists.
F1
Rating: CTC
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem
Genre: Drama, sport
Opens: JUN 26
From the director of Top Gun: Maverick, comes Brad Pitt as “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes, he was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone. This will be so much fun!
