7.9

X-Men: First Class

2011, USA

• Actors: James McAvoy, Laurence Belcher, Michael Fassbender, Bill Milner, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Beth Goddard, Morgan Lily, Oliver Platt, Álex González, Jason Flemyng, Zoë Kravitz, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Caleb Landry Jones, Edi Gathegi, Corey Johnson, Lucas Till, Demetri Goritsas, Glenn Morshower, Matt Craven, James Remar, Ludger Pistor, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Greg Kolpakchi, Andrei Zayats, Rade Serbedzija, Ray Wise, Michael Medeiros
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Matthew Vaughn
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.

  7.3

Synecdoche, New York

2008, USA

• Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Sadie Goldstein, Tom Noonan, Peter Friedman, Charles Techman, Josh Pais, Daniel London, Robert Seay, Michelle Williams, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Samantha Morton, Hope Davis, Frank Girardeau, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Amy Wright, Paul Sparks, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Deirdre O'Connell, Kat Peters, John Rothman, Amanda R. Phillips, Frank Wood, Deanna Storey, Elizabeth Marvel, Laura Odeh, Mark Lotito, Daisy Tahan, Erica Berg
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Charlie Kaufman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. His is second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.

  6.0

Margot at the Wedding

2007, USA

• Actors: Zane Pais, Susan Blackwell, Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, Flora Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Seth Barrish, Matthew Arkin, Brian Kelley, Christian Hansen, Michael Cullen, Enid Graham, Sophie Nyweide, Justin Roth, Ciarán Hinds, Halley Feiffer, Joanthan Scwartz, John Turturro, Lisa Emery, Michael Medeiros, Ashlie Atkinson, Alexander Emmet, Tyler Kelley
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Noah Baumbach
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A slice of family life: sisters, husbands, children, history, secrets, jealousies. Margot and her teen son, Claude, travel from Manhattan to her family's Long Island home, occupied by sister Pauline, Pauline's daughter, and Malcolm, the slacker Pauline will marry outdoors that week under a tree neighbors want removed. Backbiting marks family discussion, particularly between the sisters and in Margot's cutting remarks to Claude. Pauline tells Margot a secret that Margot promptly tells Claude. Margot dislikes Malcolm and undermines him. She also has marital problems and a lover nearby. People are cruel, inside and outside their families. Is there a refuge for Margot or for Pauline?

  6.1

Drunks

1995, USA

• Actors: Richard Lewis, Liza Harris, Liam Ahern, George Martin, Sam Rockwell, Amanda Plummer, Kevin Corrigan, Fanni Green, Parker Posey, Dianne Wiest, Billy Dove, Julie Halston, Faye Dunaway, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Calista Flockhart, Annette Arnold, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Oscar Koch, Margaret Devine, Michael Medeiros, Kevin Rendon, Burtt Harris, Laurie Taylor-Williams, Spalding Gray, Anna Levine, Zach Grenier, Christopher Lawford, Michael Campbell, Abe Gurko, David Drumgold
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Peter Cohn
• Available languages:
  • English English.

At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, searching for some solace in his old stomping grounds, bars and parks where he bought drugs, the meeting goes on, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice, who don't call themselves alcoholic, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting.

  5.4

RoboCop 2

1990, USA

• Actors: Belinda Bauer, John Glover, Mario Machado, Leeza Gibbons, John Ingle, Tom Noonan, Roger Aaron Brown, Gabriel Damon, Mark Rolston, Lila Finn, John Hateley, Gage Tarrant, Thomas Rosales Jr., Brandon Smith, Wallace Merck, Peter Weller, Michael Medeiros, Galyn Görg, Linda Thompson, Lily Chen, Nancy Allen, Clinton Austin Shirley, Angie Bolling, Jeff McCarthy, Ken Lerner, Martin Casella, Willard E. Pugh, Phil Rubenstein, Felton Perry, Dan O'Herlihy
• Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Irvin Kershner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer. But as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Kane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path uses Kane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project, a living God.