One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy, inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Director: Miloš Forman
Stars: Brad Dourif Christopher Lloyd Danny DeVito Dean R. Brooks Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher Michael Berryman Scatman Crothers Will Sampson William Redfield
Moonrise Kingdom
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. For our review on this film, lick here.
Director: Wes Anderson
Stars: Bill Murray Bob Balaban Bruce Willis Edward Norton Frances McDormand Harvey Keitel Jared Gilman Jason Schwartzman Kara Hayward Tilda Swinton
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Allison Janney Asa Butterfield Chris O'Dowd Ella Purnell Eva Green Judi Dench Milo Parker Rupert Everett Samuel L. Jackson Terence Stamp
Slumdog Millionaire
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Stars: Anil Kapoor Ayush Mahesh Khedekar Dev Patel Freida Pinto Irrfan Khan Jeneva Talwar Mahesh Manjrekar Mia Drake Inderbitzin Rajendranath Zutshi Saurabh Shukla
Band of Brothers
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
Stars: Damian Lewis Donnie Wahlberg Eion Bailey Matthew Settle Michael Cudlitz Neal McDonough Ron Livingston Ross McCall Scott Grimes Shane Taylor
The Pacific
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
Stars: Anna Torv Ashton Holmes Jacob Pitts James Badge Dale Jon Bernthal Jon Seda Joseph Mazzello Matt Craven Rami Malek William Sadler