Breathe (2024)

Title: Breathe
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Stefon Bristol
Written by: Doug Simon
Starring: Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, Quvenzhané Wallis, Common, and Sam Worthington
Release Date: 4/26/2024
Running Time: 93 minutes

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An East Flatbush mother and daughter, barely surviving in an oxygen-less world, must band together to protect each other when intruders arrive claiming to know their missing father.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Memoriam: IN LOVING MEMORY
Jason Barrow
Matthew Myers
Lucielle Barker
Tarik Jackson

Fool’s Paradise (2023)

Title: Fool’s Paradise
Rating: R
Directed by: Charlie Day
Written by: Charlie Day
Starring: Charlie Day, Ken Jeong, Kate Beckinsale, Adrien Brody, Ray Liotta, Jason Sudeikis, Edie Falco, John Malkovich, Common, and Jillian Bell
Release Date: 5/12/2023
Running Time: 97 minutes

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The story of a down-on-his-luck publicist (Jeong) who discovers a recently released mental health patient (Day) who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Michael and Frank for this submission

Alice (2022)

Title: Alice
Rating: R
Directed by: Krystin Ver Linden
Written by: Krystin Ver Linden
Starring: Keke Palmer, Common, Gaius Charles, and Jonny Lee Miller
Release Date: 3/18/2022
Running Time: 100 minutes

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Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is actually 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation. Inspired by true events, Alice is a modern empowerment story tracing Alice’s journey through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Ava (2020)

Title: Ava
Rating: R
Directed by: Tate Taylor
Written by: Matthew Newton
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Common, John Malkovich, and Colin Farrell
Release Date: 9/25/2020
Running Time: 96 minutes

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Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Informer, The (2019)

Title: The Informer
Rating: NR
Directed by: Andrea Di Stefano
Written by: Rowan Joffe, Andrea Di Stefano, and Matt Cook
Based on the novel by: Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen, Common, and Ana de Armas
Release Date: 1/10/2019
Running Time: 113 minutes

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Honorably discharged Special Ops soldier Pete Koslow’s (Joel Kinnaman) world is turned upside-down when he is jailed after a fight to protect his wife (Ana de Armas). He’s given a chance for early release by becoming an informant for the FBI (Academy Award nominees Rosamund Pike and Clive Owen) and using his covert skills in an operation to take down The General, the most powerful crime boss in New York. But when the FBI sting meant to finally earn Koslow his freedom results in the death of an undercover NYPD cop, Koslow finds himself caught in the crossfire between the mob and the FBI. The General insists Koslow takes the heat and sends him back to prison to spearhead a drug operation from inside, and the FBI affirms that going back to jail to do The General’s bidding is the only way for Koslow to keep his deal with them alive. Caught in a world of impossible choices, Koslow must return to prison, where he formulates a plan to escape the clutches of three of New York City’s most powerful organizations – the mob, the NYPD and the FBI – in order to save himself and his family.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Memoriam: In Memory of
Börge Hellström

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Kitchen, The (2019)

Title: The Kitchen
Rating: R
Directed by: Andrea Berloff
Written by: Andrea Berloff
Based on the comic books by: Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson, James Badge Dale, Brian d’Arcy James, Margo Martindale, Common, Bill Camp, Jeremy Bobb, E.J. Bonilla, Wayne Duvall, Annabella Sciorra, and Myk Watford
Release Date: 8/9/2019
Running Time: 102 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
The story of three 1978 Hell’s Kitchen housewives whose mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia’s matters into their own hands—proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition…literally.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Nicholas for this submission

Saint Judy (2018)

Title: Saint Judy
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Sean Hanish
Written by: Dmitry Portnoy
Starring: Michelle Monaghan, Leem Lubany, Common, Peter Krause, Ben Schnetzer, Waleed Zuaiter, Mykelti Williamson, Gabriel Bateman, Aimee Garcia, Alfred Molina, and Alfre Woodard
Release Date: 3/1/2019
Running Time: 106 minutes

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SAINT JUDY tells the true story of Los Angeles immigration attorney Judy Wood, who single-handedly changed the United States law of asylum and saved countless lives in the process.

In a landmark case, one of her first as an immigration lawyer, Judy Wood represented an Afghan woman who fled her home country after being persecuted by the Taliban for opening a school for girls. After a tenacious battle both in and out of court, Judy’s efforts culminated in arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit where she fought to include women as a protected class.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Note: As the credit scroll, there are video images in the background of Immigration like the Courthouses, Law Libraries, people walking on train tracks, people waiting in line at the immigration office, the detention cells/prisons, etc. This eventually faint to only credit as a few minutes. Also, before the credits we see the real Judy Wood walking into her office while subtitles say what happened to Asefa’s case and how it changed Immigration Law. When Judy makes it to her desk, she answers the phone saying “Judy Wood, how can I help you?”

Special thanks to Tony for this submission

Here and Now (2018)

Title: Here and Now
Rating: R
Directed by: Fabien Constant
Written by: Laura Eason
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Simon Baker, Common, Taylor Kinney, Waleed Zuaiter, Jacqueline Bisset, and Renée Zellweger
Release Date: 11/9/2018
Running Time: 91 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
A singer in New York gets a grim diagnosis that puts her life and dreams into perspective.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Hunter Killer (2018)*

Title: Hunter Killer
Rating: R
Directed by: Donovan Marsh
Written by: Arne Schmidt and Jamie Moss
Based on the novel by: George Wallace and Don Keith
Starring: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Linda Cardellini, and Toby Stephens
Release Date: 10/26/2018
Running Time: 121 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
Deep under the Arctic Ocean, American submarine Captain Joe Glass (Gerard Butler) is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress when he discovers a secret Russian coup is in the offing, threatening to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Captain Glass must now assemble an elite group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and sneak through enemy waters to stop WWIII.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Note: There are shots of the USS Arkansas sailing on the surface at sea shown during the credits.

Dedication: Dedicated to the memory of John Thompson and Michael Nyqvist

Special thanks to Saran and Frank for this submission

Hate U Give, The (2018)

Title: The Hate U Give
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: George Tillman Jr.
Written by: Audrey Wells
Based on the novel by: Angie Thomas
Starring: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, KJ Apa, Algee Smith, Lamar Johnson, Issa Rae, Sabrina Carpenter, Common, and Anthony Mackie
Release Date: 10/19/2018
Running Time: 132 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what’s right.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Kyrstyne for this submission

Tag: Common