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 92 m
White Lightnin' 2009
Director: Dominic Murphy
Stars: Muse Watson, Carrie Fisher, Wallace Merck
Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still abides living legend Jesco White the dancing outlaw. As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the...
FHD 1h55m
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