HD 93 min
Eighth Grade
Director: Bo Burnham
Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan
In his feature film directorial debut, comedian Bo Burnham deftly encapsulates the awkwardness, angst, self-loathing and reinvention that a teenage girl goes through on the cusp of high school. Given that the 27-year-old stand-up comic achieved fame as a teenager himself through YouTube by riffing on his insecurities, he is uniquely capable as the film's writer and director to tell the story of Kayla, an anxious girl navigating the final days of her eighth grade year, despite creating a protagonist w female instead of male. Like Burnham did more than a decade ago, 13-year-old Kayla turns to YouTube to express herself, where she makes advice blogs in which she pretends to have it all together. In reality, Kayla is sullen and silent around her single father and her peers at school, carrying out most of her interactions with her classmates on Instagram and Twitter. Her YouTube videos are a clever narrative tool that provide insight into her inner hopes and dreams...
HD 93 min
HD 95 m
King Rat 2017
Director: Henry Johnston
Stars: Burt Young, Austin Pendleton, Lauren Ashley Carter, Behzad Dabu
A comedy-drama King Rat examines the possibility that years after graduation - whether its ten years or thirty - we may be stuck with the same issues we had before crossing that stage at...
FHD 1h55m
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