Still Awesome: Puritanical religion, paranoia, and familial distrust – particularly of young women – are at the pitch-black center of Eggers’ slow-burning descent into madness and mayhem in 1630s New England. Read a full review of The Witch.
Love and Reconstruction in the Civil War-era South. In addition to Leigh's Academy win, McDaniel became the first African American actor to win an Oscar.
Flashback Cinema. Love and Reconstruction in the Civil War-era South. In addition to Leigh's Academy win, McDaniel became the first African American actor to win an Oscar.
Modern Masters: Yorgos Lanthimos' solo directorial feature debut suggests themes of control and casual cruelty he would come to explore in later works (The Favourite, The Lobster).
Bowie Anniversary. Bowie is charismatic as the King of the Goblins who kidnaps a baby boy in this imaginative film that mixes puppetry and live action.
AlamoScope. The late Philip S. Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix act out the internal (and eternal) war between the analytical and implusive that is the principal inquiry of P.T. Anderson's film. Read a full review of The Master.
Laser Imax 3D. Russell Crowe narrates this doc following the life cycle of an Australian green sea turtle named Bunji and her journey across the ocean.
Laser IMAX 2D: Timed to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 – and made exclusively for science centers and museums – Apollo 11: First Steps Edition reconstructs the exhilarating mission with never-before-seen footage and newly discovered audio recordings.