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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

Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Sverrir Gudnason


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 (

Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev


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

Stars: Justin Timberlake, Ryder Allen, Alisha Wainwright



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