Lee returns to his previous polemic and fine filmmaking form with Chi-Raq, a musical-comedy satire about the cycle and effects of violence and gun crime on black communities in America. The story is all Lysistrata (Aristophanes); women withhold sex from men in the hopes of making them stop using violence against each other. It's far from politically correct, not nearly as find out more...
Jessica Chastain is brilliant as Elizabeth Sloane, the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. it seems nothing can bring her down, until she takes on the pro-gun movement. Faced with the bitter challenge of suppressing her rhetoric and forever pleading the fifth, Sloane's cool exterior starts to crack. Great courtroom drama / tense political thriller with stellar performances from the lead cast.
find out more...It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...