Friday Jan 22 to Thursday Jan 28, 2016

"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.

"Quentin Tarantino’s latest film (**** out of four)  mashes up the Western genre with a murder mystery to depict one night with eight unpleasant strangers — some more loathsome than others — packed together in the most tense of situations.

"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.

"Zev, played by Christopher Plummer, is living in an old age home in New York and starting to lose his mind. His wife of many decades has just passed away, yet every time he awakes her name is on his lips, and he has to be reminded that she is no more.

"TRUTH dramatically recounts the story behind the '60 Minutes' segment that led Dan Rather (well-played by Robert Redford) to resign from CBS, but the brightest star of this great ensemble piece is Cate Blanchett, who may well end up with another Oscar nomination for playing Rather’s producer Mary Mapes.

Why We Fight director Eugene Jarecki shifts his focus from the military industrial complex to the War on Drugs in this documentary exploring the risks that prohibition poses to freedom, and the tragedy of addicts being treated as criminals.