PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END

Original Release Date: May 25, 2007
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Streaming: Netflix

80TH ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Makeup (Nominee)
Best Visual Effects (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.

Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, Naomie Harris, Jack Davenport, Kevin McNally, Tom Hollander, and Jonathan Pryce


RABBIT HOLE

Original Release Date: December 17, 2010
Directed by: John Cameron Mitchell
Studio: Lions Gate Entertainment
Streaming: Hoopla

82ND ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Leading Actress (Nicole Kidman) (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, and Dianne Wiest


HUGO

Original Release Date: November 23, 2011
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Streaming: Tubi TV

84TH ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Picture (Nominee)
Best Directing (Nominee)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Nominee)
Best Cinematography (WINNER)
Best Film Editing (Nominee)
Best Costume Design (Nominee)
Best Art Direction (WINNER)
Best Original Score (Nominee)
Best Sound Editing (WINNER)
Best Sound Mixing (WINNER)
Best Visual Effects (WINNER)

Official Synopsis: In Paris in 1931, an orphan named Hugo Cabret, who lives in the walls of a train station, is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, and Jude Law


GRAN TORINO

Original Release Date: December 12, 2008
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Streaming: Roku

Official Synopsis: Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Dreama Walker, John Carroll Lynch, Scott Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang and Ahney Her


A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Original Release Date: February 2, 1972
Directed by:
Stanley Kubrick
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Streaming: Prime Video

44TH ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Picture (Nominee)
Best Director (Nominee)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Nominee)
Best Film Editing (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn’t go as planned.

Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, and Miriam Karlin


OUTLAW KING

Original Release Date: November 9, 2018
Directed by:
David Mackenzie
Studio: Netflix
Streaming: Netflix

Official Synopsis: A true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish ‘Outlaw King’ Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.

Starring: Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, Billy Howle, Tony Curran, Callan Mulvey, Stephen Dillane and Alan Cooney


HOTEL ARTEMIS

Original Release Date: June 8, 2018
Directed by: Drew Pearce
Studio: Global Road Entertainment
Streaming: Hoopla

Official Synopsis: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, ‘Hotel Artemis’ follows the Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.

Starring: Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Charlie Day, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Dave Bautista, and Zachary Quinto


KICK-ASS

Original Release Date: April 16, 2010
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Studio: Lionsgate
Streaming: Hulu

Official Synopsis: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Starring: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Lyndsy Fonseca, and Clark Duke


HESHER

Original Release Date: May 13, 2011
Directed by:
Spencer Susser
Studio: Wrekin Hill Entertainment
Streaming: Roku

Official Synopsis: A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman, Devin Brochu, and John Carroll Lynch


DOGTOOTH

Original Release Date: June 25, 2010
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Studio: Feelgood Entertainment
Streaming: Shudder

83RD ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Foreign Language Feature (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out.

Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni and Christos Passalis


LEAVING NETFLIX THIS WEEK


SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 10TH

  • Bedeviled (2016)
  • The Damned (2013)
  • Under the Sun (2015)

SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 11TH

  • Anna Karenina (2012)
  • Chaos on the Bridge (2014)
  • Gloria (2015)
  • The Little Death (2014)
  • Take Me to the River (2015)
  • The Wolfpack (2015)

MONDAY
NOVEMBER 12TH

  • Call Me Lucky (2015)
  • Chalk It Up (2016)
  • Clown (2014)
  • Viral (2016)
  • Whores’ Glory (2011)

TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 13TH

  • Blue Caprice (2013)
  • Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
  • Department Q: The Absent One (2014)
  • Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
  • Dior and I (2014)

WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 14TH

  • Cosmos (2015)
  • Cristina (2016)
  • Jedi Junior High (2014)
  • Lucha Underground – 2 Seasons (2016)
  • Men Go to Battle (2015)
  • The Missing Ingredient: What Is the Recipe for Success? (2015)
  • Porong Porong Rescue Mission (2014)
  • Somewhere in the Middle (2015)
  • Ten Thousand Saints (2015)
  • Tikkun (2015)

THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 15TH

  • Evan Almighty (2006)
  • Paddington (2014)

NEXT FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 16TH

  • Undercover Boss – 5 Seasons (2014)

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