Adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel, The Color Purple is a landmark drama from director Steven Spielberg that marked a bold shift from his blockbuster roots to deeply human storytelling. The film follows Celie Harris (Whoopi Goldberg, in her breakout role) as she endures a lifetime of abuse, separation, and resilience in the […]
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If Beale Street Could Talk
November 12, 2025
From Academy Award–winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), If Beale Street Could Talk is a lyrical and deeply moving adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel. Set in 1970s Harlem, the film follows young lovers Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James), whose dreams of a shared future are threatened when Fonny is falsely accused of a […]
Nuremberg
November 10, 2025
Nuremberg is a gripping psychological thriller and historical drama from writer-director James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, Truth), based on Jack El-Hai’s book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. Rami Malek stars as U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, tasked with assessing the mental fitness of Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) during the Nuremberg trials. As Kelley probes Göring’s mind, their […]
Secret Mall Apartment
November 5, 2025
Winner of multiple festival awards and hailed as one of the best documentaries of 2024, Secret Mall Apartment tells the unbelievable true story of eight young Rhode Islanders who secretly built and lived in a hidden apartment inside the Providence Place Mall from 2003 to 2007. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Jeremy Workman (The World Before […]
The Mastermind
November 4, 2025
Premiering in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d’Or, The Mastermind marks a bold new chapter in Kelly Reichardt’s career — a masterful blend of heist thriller and intimate character study. The film also screened at the New York Film Festival and Stockholm International Film Festival, earning […]
Rental Family
October 29, 2025
Rental Family is a heartfelt comedy-drama from director and co-writer Hikari (winner of multiple emerging-director awards for this film), starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, and Akira Emoto. Adapted from real Japanese “rental family” services, the film follows a lonely American actor living in Tokyo who takes a job performing stand-in […]
Eleanor the Great
October 6, 2025
Eleanor the Great features a bravura performance from June Squibb in the title role of the spirited 94-year-old who tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Eleanor Morgenstein has always stayed engaged and connected to the people around her. So, after a devastating loss, she relocates from Florida to New York […]
Wicked: For Good
September 22, 2025
Presented by Post and Courier Columbia Last year’s global cinematic cultural sensation, which became the most successful Broadway film adaptation of all time, now reaches its epic, electrifying, emotional conclusion in Wicked: For Good. Directed once again by award-winning director Jon M. Chu and starring the spectacular returning cast, led by Academy Award® nominated superstars […]
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
September 22, 2025
A biographical musical drama from writer-director Scott Cooper, adapted from Warren Zanes’ acclaimed book of the same name. Starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, the film captures the conception of Springsteen’s haunting 1982 album Nebraska, created in the quiet of his New Jersey bedroom on a simple 4-track recorder. With supporting performances from Jeremy […]
Song Sung Blue
September 22, 2025
Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it’s never too late to find love and follow your dreams.