In “Two Distant Strangers”, cartoonist Carter James’ repeated attempts to get home to his dog are thwarted by a recurring deadly encounter that forces him to re-live the same awful day over and over again. Starring Joey Bada$$, Andrew Howard and Zaria Simone.
It’s the year 500 A.D. in deepest, darkest Denmark. A jealous, decapitating monster — the unstoppable Grendel — terrorizes the drunken revelers of mead-soaked Heorot. Fearless Princess Freawaru and her sidekick, the cynical scribe Shaper, journey in search a hero who can save their people. But it turns out true heroes are rarer than bloodthirsty monsters. And when famed imp-slayer Beowulf rides to Heorot’s rescue, her true agenda could prove more dangerous than Grendel himself.
In 1909, Denmark’s Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen sleds across the ice with his inexperienced crew member, Iver Iversen. The two men succeed in finding the proof that Greenland is one island, but returning to the ship takes longer and is much harder than expected. Battling extreme hunger, fatigue and a polar bear attack, they finally arrive to find their ship crushed in the ice and the camp abandoned.
Multi-platinum rockers Evanescence chart their journey through the conception and creation of their new album, The Bitter Truth, amidst the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
Robbie Knievel, 52 and the owner of 20 world records and 350 jumps worldwide, life is uncovered through his personal pursuit of sobriety and the need of continuing his father’s legacy by jumping once again.
Sybil works at an undertaker’s. It’s a lonely job, with few perks. So she takes solace where she can.
After losing her parents, aspiring painter Leah struggles to cope. When her brother moves away, he asks his best friend Axel to look after her, unaware of her longtime feelings for him.
Pro basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo narrates his journey reconciling himself with his roots between cross-cultural worlds.
Expanding her (White Riot: London (2017)) short documentary film, Rubika Shah‘s energizing film charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot (2019) blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.
In a post – apocalyptic Australia, a revenge filled man’s plans are complicated after he finds a young boy who’s mother was recently murdered by the same three men he is after.
A hit man has second thoughts about his career and seeks refuge from his boss by finding work as a baker in a rural Welsh village.
After being released from a 6-year prison sentence for the possession of marijuana at a college party, Tyler Richards is surprisingly reunited with the friends for whom he took the fall. After a secretly planned dinner party is revealed by his best friend Justin, Tyler finds himself forced to spent his first night out “catching up with the old crew”. The surprise to Tyler, he is shocked at how distant the group has grown and how much each individual has changed; and not for the better. Seeing that they have nearly all veered from the paths that he expected them to take, Tyler listens as the complaints of their everyday lives become louder, and he sees the selfish and ungrateful soul of this generation’s society. However, Tyler comes to hear that being imprisoned in your mind and literally being in prison might not be as far from one another as one would think. Or are we simply conditioned to take our freedom for granted? Are we taking our own willpower and ability to make conscious …
