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Image from The Great Gatsby - Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan

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Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times – 5 Questions for Film Director Marcus Markou

Winner of Best International Short Film at the 2018 San Jose International Short Film Festival 1. Above all else what do you hope au... READ MORE

Image from the animation short film 'Ian'.

Ian – 5 Questions for Film Director Abel Goldfarb

Winner of the Best Animation Award at the 2018 L.A. Shorts Fest 1. How did you decide on the design and animation style for this pro... READ MORE

Souls of Totality – 5 Questions for Film Director Richard Raymond

Won Best Director for Movie Title at the Year Name of Film Festival 1. How does a director best guide their cast and crew towards cr... READ MORE

Image Still from the short film, Mother - Interview with director Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Mother – 5 Questions for Film Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen

1. What were the logistics of shooting this film in a single take? We approached it with a lot of rehearsal time for the actors over a we... READ MORE

The Clovehitch Killer - Interview with Director Duncan Skiles

The Clovehitch Killer – Interview with Film Director Duncan Skiles

A teenage boy’s world is turned upside down when he finds evidence that suggests his father is a notorious serial killer terrorizing their s... READ MORE

Image of Saleh Bakri from short film "Bonbone"

Bonboné – 5 Questions for Film Director Rakan Mayasi

Won Best Short Film Award at the 2018 Moscow International Film Festival 1. What's the reality behind this story? Bonboné tackles t... READ MORE

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2.5

The Breaker Upperers

The slacker comedy about the trials, tribulations, and hijinks of two hopelessly lonely women who run a break-up on-demand agency.

2.5

Unfriended

Teenager Blaire and her friends find themselves terrorized and tormented by what seems to be the ghost of a girl they cyberbullied into committing suicide.

2.0

Killer Kate!

The film centers on estranged sisters catching up over a weekend bachelorette getaway set at a remote house targeted by a family of amateur killers.

Olga Kurylenko in sleep paralysis focused horror film 'Mara'

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In his supernaturally-charged psychological thriller, director Clive Tonge centers his story on the case of a psychologist named Kate Fuller who is involved in an investigation where a mother is guilty of killing her husband in his sleep.

3.5

Ride

Ride follows an Uber driver who gets caught up with a manipulative passenger and ends up going on the opposite of a relaxing night drive.

3.0

Boarding School

A young boy becomes overly riveted by his grandmother’s death. The boy, Jacob begins dressing in her clothes, wearing her jewelry, and dancing when he is alone.

Ryan Reynolds and T.J Miller in the sequel to the first Deadpool.

3.5

Deadpool 2

Deadpool 2 is the follow up to the popular origin focused title of the same namesake.

2.5

Beyond The Sky

A documentary filmmaker sets out to prove that alien abductees are merely suffering from False Memory Syndrome, but upon meeting a young woman with a mysterious past begins to discover something more.

3.0

The Devil’s Candy

The Devil’s Candy is the 2nd horror film from Director Sean Byrne after 2009’s The Loved Ones.

4.5

Skyfall

In the twenty-third installment of the James Bond series, Skyfall, tension surfaces between Agent 007 and M after a questionable decision out in the field.

2.5

Skyscraper

We follow former FBI agent Will Sawyer who is hired as a security consultant for a state of the art Hong Kong skyscraper called The Pearl.

3.0

Arizona

Arizona follows a down and out realtor who’s life gets even more complicated when she’s witness to an accidental murder.

5.0

Eighth Grade

Middle school is a time filled with awkward growing pains and moments of self-discovery, though many may try to repress those memories. Comedian-turned-director Bo Burnham encapsulates the essence of early adolescence in his debut feature film, Eighth Grade.

4.5

The Beguiled

You lie underneath a sunken tree injured from the bloodshed of a war you were barely able to escape from. A startled young girl stumbles upon you and, out of the kindness of her heart, assists you back to a school exclusively for young ladies.

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a historical drama and romance based on the novel of the same name, which follows the separate stories of two women who have never met, but who are connected through an eccentric book club.