Letterboxd Mondays - Minari, Malcolm & Marie, PVT Chat
/Streamed live, February 15th
BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR
Listen…Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time - ever.
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Writers: Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
Stars: Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan
THE CROODS: A NEW AGE
Listen…The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.
Director: Joel Crawford
Writers: Kevin Hageman, Dan Hageman
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds
FALLING
Listen…John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Writers: Viggo Mortensen
A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX
Listen…Documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher tackles this question "are we living in a simulation?" with testimony, philosophical evidence and scientific explanation in his for the answer.
Director: Rodney Ascher
Writers: Rodney Ascher
Stars: Nick Bostrom, Joshua Cooke, Erik Davis
LAND
Listen…A bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming.
Director: Robin Wright
Writers: Jesse Chatham, Erin Dignam
Stars: Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge
LITTLE FISH
Listen…A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
Director: Chad Hartigan
Writers: Aja Gabel Mattson Tomlin
Stars: Olivia Cooke, Jack O'Connell, Soko
MINARI
Listen…A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas.
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Writers: Lee Isaac Chung
Stars: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim
MUSIC
Listen…Zu is newly sober when she receives news that she is to become the sole guardian of her half-sister named Music, a young girl on the autism spectrum. The film explores two of Sia's favorite themes: finding your voice and creating family.
Director: Sia
Writers: Sia Dallas Clayton
Stars: Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Maddie Ziegler
PVT CHAT
Listen…Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC who becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy Chinatown street.
Director: Ben Hozie
Writers: Ben Hozie
Stars: Peter Vack, Julia Fox, Keith Poulson
SUPERNOVA
Listen…Sam and Tusker are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.
Director: Harry Macqueen
Writers: Harry Macqueen
Stars: Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood
TWO OF US
Listen…Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other's apartments.
Director: Filippo Meneghetti
Writers: Malysone Bovorasmy, Filippo Meneghetti
Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker
THE WORLD TO COME
Listen…Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.
Director: Mona Fastvold
Writers: Ron Hansen Jim Shepard
Stars: Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott
YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVNESS
Listen…Maryam is a young woman who is accused of murdering her husband and is sentenced to death. In the Yalda night they bring her to a live TV show so that Mona who is the only daughter of the victim see her and forgive her from her crime. But some happenings in the show make the two women to do different choices.
Director: Massoud Bakhshi
Writers: Massoud Bakhshi
Stars: Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi
I'M NO LONGER HERE
Listen…When a black man accidentally kills a white cop in self-defense, the cover-up sets off a chain reaction of deceit, blackmail, and murder.
Director: Lanre Olabisi
Writers: Lanre Olabisi
Stars: Carra Patterson, Sawandi Wilson, Rotimi Paul
THE CYPHER
Listen…A young man, Khalil, must defend himself during a freestyle rap competition in Philadelphia
Director: Letia Solomon
Writers: Wes Akwuobi
Stars: Kerrice Brooks, Nigel Cox, Michael Devon
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
Listen…Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O'Neal's soul.
Director :Shaka King
Writers: Will Berson Shaka King
Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons
THE LITTLE THINGS
Listen…Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
Director :John Lee Hancock
Writers: John Lee Hancock
Stars: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto
DEAR COMRADES
Listen…When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Writers: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Elena Kiseleva (
KINDRED
Listen…Plagued by mysterious hallucinations, a pregnant woman suspects that the family of her deceased boyfriend has intentions for her unborn child.
Director: Joe Marcantonio
Writers: Joe Marcantonio, Jason McColgan
Stars: Chloe Pirrie, Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw
POSSESSOR
Listen…Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Writers: Brandon Cronenberg
Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
MALCOLM & MARIE
Listen…A director and his girlfriend's relationship is tested after they return home from his movie premiere and await critics' responses.
Director: Sam Levinson
Writers: Sam Levinson
Stars: John David Washington, Zendaya
ROCKS
Listen…A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writers: Theresa Ikoko Theresa Ikoko
Stars: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D'angelou Osei Kissiedu
TO ALL THE BOYS: ALWAYS AND FOREVER
Listen…Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans - with and without Peter.
Director: Michael Fimognari
Writers: Katie Lovejoy Jenny Han
Stars: Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish
BLISS
Listen…A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is a computer simulation.
Director: Mike Cahill
Writers: Mike Cahill
Stars: Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper
THE CHINA HUSTLE
Listen…An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.
Director: Jed Rothstein
Writers: Jed Rothstein
Stars: Soren Aandahl, Carson Block, Dan David
COMPUTER HACKERS
Listen…A group of young hackers realize that their future is being sold to the highest bidder so they fight back against a system that is programmed against them.
Director: Jake Myers
Writers: Jake Myers
Stars: Daisy Maass, Colin Kolasny, Ian Abramson
ETERNAL BEAUTY
Listen…After Jane falls into a state of despair over her schizophrenia, she encounters new sources of love and life with surprising results.
Director: Craig Roberts
Writers: Craig Roberts
Stars: Billie Piper, David Thewlis, Morfydd Clark
HOSTS
Listen…A family fall victim to a series of violent murders when they invite their neighbours over for Xmas dinner.
Director: Adam Leader, Richard Oakes
Writers: Adam Leader
Stars: Neal Ward, Nadia Lamin, Frank Jakeman
PALMER
Listen…An ex-convict strikes up a friendship with a boy from a troubled home.
Director: Fisher Stevens
Writers: Cheryl Guerriero
WANDAVISON
Listen…Blends the style of classic sitcoms with the MCU in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision -two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives-begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
Director: Jac Schaeffer
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn
