Friday Feb 12 to Thursday Feb 18, 2016

"Based on a best-selling book by Michael Lewis about folks who anticipated the financial crisis of 2008, 'The Big Short' is the film that 'The Wolf of Wall Street' wanted to be.

"The Lacey women, wrote Irish novelist Colm Toibin in his 2009 book BROOKLYN, could do everything, 'except say out loud what it was they were thinking.' In John Crowley’s lovely film made from the novel, Saoirse Ronan ('Atonement') provides a master class in showing, not saying, what her character Eilis Lacey is thinking.

"Carol is set in the early 1950s, but Todd Haynes’ sumptuous drama clearly speaks to current times, where homosexual rights are still fought for daily. One of the best films of 2015, it stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as fugitive lovers in the repressive America of the time.

"Spotlight is a masterpiece. Director Tom McCarthy’s drama embraces both great cinema and even better journalism as it chronicles a Boston Globe investigative team’s real-life expose on child abuse by local priests and the Catholic Church cover-up that followed. Not only is it an amazingly crafted movie, it’s an important one as well.