Cowboy Boots
BY : Brandon March 28, 2025
Jack, a gay cowboy from Nebraska, finds anything but the promised land he envisioned when he visits a San Francisco gay club for the first time. Cowboy Boots explores the intersection of accepting one’s sexual identity and trying to find the community in which it can reside. It is at once a dive into the... Read more »
Cries from the Cotton Field
BY : Brandon March 28, 2025
Feature-length documentary saga of Italians who were unscrupulously recruited to work cotton fields in the American South, after the Civil War, and their resilient journey of hope, hardship and faith. Told in first person by parish priest Father Pietro Bandini, a “Moses-like” figure expelled by the Jesuits, who led his flock out of death and... Read more »
The Studio
BY : Brandon March 28, 2025
Matt Remick is a studio executive at Continental Studios who still believes in artistic integrity in an increasingly shallow, IP-based industry. He gets a long-awaited promotion to studio head after his mentor, longtime studio head Patty Leigh, gets fired at the behest of new CEO Griffin Mill. Credits: TheMovieDb.
National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove
BY : Brandon March 28, 2025
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley. A production from... Read more »
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
BY : Brandon March 28, 2025
In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and released a year later, the song launched Ian’s career, but its subject matter ignited controversy, even resulting in death threats. The fallout plunged Ian into an emotional tailspin–and yet a few years later she emerged from... Read more »
Black Heat
BY : Brandon March 28, 2025
After failing to get help from authorities, two parents go on a suicide mission to rescue their fifteen-year-old daughter, who’s under the control of the enigmatic King David.