Nomadland (2020)
Drama
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Starring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn
Director: Chloé Zhao
The Break-Up (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
In a bid to keep their luxurious condo from their significant other, a couple's break-up proceeds to get uglier and nastier by the moment.
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Joey Lauren Adams, Cole Hauser, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman
Director: Peyton Reed
Things Heard & Seen (2021)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
An artist relocates to the Hudson Valley and begins to suspect that her marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals her new home's history.
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter, F. Murray Abraham, Jack Gore
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Black Bear (2020)
Comedy | Drama
A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon, Christopher Abbott, Lindsay Burdge, Alexander Koch, Jennifer Kim
Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Two Ways Home (2019)
Drama
A young woman living with bipolar disorder struggles to honor her grandfather's last wish while attempting to reunite with her estranged 12-year-old daughter.
Starring: Tanna Frederick, Tom Bower, Joel West, Shanda Lee Munson, Pat Frey, Rylie Behr
Director: Ron Vignone
Colors of Love / Tycoon's Kiss (2021)
Drama | Romance
When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she moves back to her small hometown in Montana, where she gets involved in helping save her brother's small-town hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who wants to renovate it.
Starring: Chad Michael Murray, Jessica Lowndes, Dennis Andres, Michael Brown, Erika Prevost
Director: Bradley Walsh
The 93rd Annual Academy Awards 2021 (TV 2021)
Awards
The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2020 and early 2021. It took place in Los Angeles, at both Union Station and the Dolby Theatre, on April 25, 2021 – two months later than planned, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema. Nominations had been announced on March 15. Nomadland won three awards, the most of the night, including Best Picture. The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Soul, and Sound of Metal won two awards each. Another Round, Colette, If Anything Happens I Love You, Minari, My Octopus Teacher, Promising Young Woman, Tenet, and Two Distant Strangers won one award each. This ceremony marked the first time since the 78th Academy Awards in 2006 that no film won more than three awards, and the first time since the 44th Academy Awards in 1972 – when the show ended with an Academy Honorary Award to Charlie Chaplin – that the ceremony did not end with the award for Best Picture (it ended with Best Actress and Actor).
Host: Ariana DeBose, Lil Rel Howery
Director: Glenn Weiss
Space Dogs: Tropical Adventure / Space Dogs: Return to Earth (2020)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family
When a mysterious and dangerous whirlpool appears in the tropics of the Atlantic Ocean, astronauts Belka and Strelka are sent to investigate. With the help of their good friends, Belka and Strelka must once again act heroically and complete a daring mission to save the planet along with the distant home of their new alien friends.
Starring: Mari Monge, Mauriett Chayeb, Alexander Machado, Jinon Deeb, Oscar Cheda, Jason Kesser, Romulo Bernal
Director: Inna Evlannikova
Pete Smalls Is Dead (2010)
Comedy | Crime
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Mark Boone Junior, Tim Roth, Seymour Cassel, Todd Barry, Steve Buscemi
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Speed (1994)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck
Director: Jan de Bont
The Virtuoso (2021)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A lonesome stranger, secure, nerves of steel, must track down and kill a rogue Hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he's been given is a time and location where to find his quarry – 5pm at a rustic diner in the dying town. No name, no description, nothing. When the assassin arrives there are several possible targets, including the county sheriff. Endangering his life, the assassin embarks on a manhunt to find the Hitman and accomplish his mission. But the danger escalates when the erotic encounters with a local woman threaten to derail his task.
Starring: Anson Mount, Abbie Cornish, David Morse, Eddie Marsan, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Brake
Director: Nick Stagliano
The Silent Forest / Wu sheng (2020)
Drama
A hearing-impaired boy transfers to a school for children with special needs. But his excitement about blending into a new environment immediately turns into fear when he witnesses the reality happening in the school.
Starring: Tzu-Chuan Liu, Buffy Chen, Hyun-Bin Kim, Kuan-Ting Liu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Tai-Bo, Pen-yu Chang
Director: Chen-Nien Ko
Come True (2020)
Horror | Sci-Fi
A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
Starring: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington, Tedra Rogers, Brandon DeWyn
Director: Anthony Scott Burns
The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms / New Interpretation Records of the Three Kingdoms / Shinkaishaku Sangokushi (2020)
Comedy | History
A new interpretation of "Records of the Three Kingdoms," which is historical text of the three states of Wei, Shu, and Wu in China.
Starring: Yô Ôizumi, Kento Kaku, Kanna Hashimoto, Mizuki Yamamoto, Kenshi Okada, Satoshi Hashimoto, Tsutomu Takahashi, Takanori Iwata
Director: Yûichi Fukuda
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
Starring: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger, Donald Sutherland, Rosalind Halstead
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Stowaway (2021)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A stowaway on a mission to Mars sets off a series of unintended consequences.
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson
Director: Joe Penna
I Never Shot Anyone (2020)
Comedy | Drama
Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face – a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is… he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Starring: Renji Ishibashi, Ittoku Kishibe, Michiyo Yasuda, Kaori Momoi, Kôichi Satô, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yôsuke Eguchi
Director: Junji Sakamoto
The Marksman (2021)
Action | Thriller
A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who've pursued him into the U.S.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Juan Pablo Raba, Teresa Ruiz, Antonio Leyba, Alex Knight
Director: Robert Lorenz
Test Pattern (2019)
Drama | Thriller
Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.
Starring: Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean, Drew Fuller, Ben Levin, Amani Starnes, Caroline Bloom
Director: Shatara Michelle Ford
Weathering with You / Tenki no ko (2019)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.
Starring: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri, Sei Hiraizumi, Yûki Kaji
Director: Makoto Shinkai
