A soft-spoken but strong willed animator gets her big break, but must compete with a legendary animator returning to the business for a Saturday primetime spot in this new live action comedy/drama about Japan’s anime industry. When the young animator challenges her hero-turned-rival on stage at an anime convention, the two production teams each set out to outdo one another, because there can only be one number-one!
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Veteran animator Takayuki Hirao’s new film isa rollicking, exuberant ode to the power of the movies, and the joys and heartbreak of the creative process, as a new director and his team devote their lives to the pursuit of a “masterpiece.” Pompo is a talented and gutsy producer in “Nyallywood,” the movie-making capital of the world. Although she’s known for B-movies, one day Pompo tells her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene that he will direct her next script. But when the production heads towards chaos, can Gene rise to Pompo’s challenge, and succeed as a first-time director?
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When an ambiguously intentioned man in a bear-mask kidnaps a doped-up punk singer, a media circus ensues.
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Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson star in a sharp and thoughtful comedy from Martin McDonagh that rivals the trio’s past work of In Bruges. When a lifelong friendship between two men ends, a series of unexpected consequences unfolds for them both.
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Adapted from the hit off Broadway musical, this glam rock saga is kind of like Rocky Horror for a new generation. A refugee from East Berlin escapes to Kansas and reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”
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Kurt Russel plays trucker Jack Burton in this rollicking and fun action fantasy mashup film. Jack’s trip to the airport turns into a supernatural battle between good and evil centering on his best friend’s beautiful green-eyed fiancée.
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Charlbi Dean, who tragically died at age 32 last year, stars in Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny new film. Social hierarchy is turned upside down when a luxury cruise for the uber rich is turned into a dystopian nightmare by an unhinged captain — played perfectly by Woody Harrelson.
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This true Pittsburgh film — written by a local and filmed in North Oakland – is a bittersweet coming of age story. Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, while secretly making films with Earl, his only friend until his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
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Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in this slick, charming caper film. Set in the 1930s, an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man seeks revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
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In this ruefully funny 2020 film, college student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva – with her parents, ex-girlfriend, and family friends also in attendance.
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