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Two Popes, The (2019)*

Title: The Two Popes
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Written by: Anthony McCarten
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, and Juan Minujín
Release Date: 12/20/2019
Running Time: 125 minutes

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Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Yes

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Special thanks to Frank and Gabe for this submission


Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The (2018)

Title: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Rating: NR
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Written by: Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni
Starring: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, and Stellan Skarsgård
Release Date: 5/19/2018
Running Time: 132 minutes

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Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Memoriam: In memory of
Jean Rochefort
John Hurt

Special thanks to Frank for this submission


Wife, The (2017)

Title: The Wife
Rating: R
Directed by: Björn Runge
Written by: Jane Anderson
Based on the novel by: Meg Wolitzer
Starring: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Harry Lloyd, and Annie Starke
Release Date: 8/17/2018
Running Time: 100 minutes

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After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements: Where Joe is brash, Joan is shy. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man’s Wife, keeping the household running smoothly, the adult children in close contact, and Joe’s pills dispensed on schedule. At times, a restless discontentment can be glimpsed beneath Joan’s smoothly decorous surface, but her natural dignity and keen sense of humor carry her through the rough spots.

En route to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize ceremonies (aboard the Concorde, still the transatlantic vessel of choice in 1992), Joan and Joe are accompanied by their son David (Max Irons), an aspiring writer in his twenties who feels that Joe belittles his work. Sulky and resentful, David wears his wounded heart on his sleeve. There’s another man on board who also wants something from Joe: Nathaniel Bone (Christian Slater), a journalist who plans to write the definitive biography of Joseph Castleman, authorized or not. To crusty, arrogant Joe, Nathaniel’s just a pest to be brushed off, but to Joan, making an enemy of Nathaniel is a risky matter. As always, she’s the conciliator between Joe and David, Joe and Nathaniel.

Amid the nonstop round of ceremonial festivities in Stockholm, Joan and Joe are swept into familiar, long-worn roles: Joe is flattered and schmoozed, while Joan stands by his side wearing her quiet smile.

As we see in flashback to Joan and Joe’s early days in the late ‘50s, Joan not only had her own writing aspirations, she had the talent (and the looks) to capture the attention of her teacher, Joe. A caustic encounter with an embittered novelist (Elizabeth McGovern) gives Joan a warning preview, however, of the obscurity awaiting the “lady writer,” no matter how talented. As Joan and Joe embark on a love affair, it fits a certain literary template of the time: she’s the well-bred WASP-y daughter of bland privilege, he’s the scrappy Jewish striver with the Brooklyn accent and the edgy stories to tell. With Joe’s first marriage busted up, they live the bohemian life in a Greenwich Village walk-up. Joan gets a job at a publishing house, encountering enough casual sexism to squelch her own ambitions but spotting a chance to forward Joe’s career as the next hot young discovery. Thus is established the self-sacrificing partnership that continues right up to the Nobel gathering decades later.

Another familiar, long-worn dynamic plays out in Stockholm as Joe is trailed by an attractive young woman photographer assigned to document Joe’s every public moment. Joan recognizes the predictable progression of flirtation and indiscretion that she has stoically overlooked through so many years of Joe’s serial infidelities. This time, Joan’s had enough. Serving Joe notice that she wants no place on a pedestal as his passive muse; matching wits with a prying Nathaniel Bone; letting her own grievances flare, for once, instead of smoothing over everyone else’s problems—Joan finally reaches for self-determination. The Castleman marriage and literary legend will never be the same.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No


Man Who Invented Christmas, The (2017)

Title: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Rating: PG
Directed by: Bharat Nalluri
Written by: Susan Coyne
Based on the book by: Les Standiford
Starring: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, and Jonathan Pryce
Release Date: 11/22/2017
Running Time: 104 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
A telling of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol.


Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission


Dough (2015)

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Title: Dough
Rating: NR
Directed by: John Goldschmidt
Written by: Jonathan Benson and Jez Freedman
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Ian Hart and Philip Davis
Release Date: 4/29/2016
Running Time: 94 minutes

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Curmudgeonly widower Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce) clings to his way of life as a Kosher bakery shop owner in London’s East End. Understaffed, Nat reluctantly enlists the help of teenager Ayyash (Jerome Holder), who has a secret side gig selling marijuana to help his immigrant mother make ends meet. When Ayyash accidentally drops his stash into the mixing dough, the challah starts flying off the shelves and an unlikely friendship forms between the old Jewish baker and his young Muslim apprentice. Dough is a warmhearted and humorous story about overcoming prejudice and finding redemption in unexpected places.


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Special thanks to Frank S. for this submission


Listen Up Philip (2014)*

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TITLE: Listen Up Philip

RELEASE DATE: 10/21/2014

RATING: NR

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel.

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Dedication: We lovingly acknowledge Lucy Childress for bringing her spark to the film. We miss you.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)*

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TITLE: Tomorrow Never Dies

RELEASE DATE: 12/19/1997

RATING: PG-13

James Bond heads to stop a media mogul’s plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.

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NOTE: In loving memory of Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli.


Hysteria (2011)*

TITLE: Hysteria

RELEASE DATE: 5/18/2012

RATING: R

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Special thanks to Tom for this submission


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