Send us a text The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a 2023 American dystopian action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt . Based on the 2020 novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins , it serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012), and is the fifth installment in The Hunger Games film series . The film stars Tom Blyth , Rachel Zegler , Peter Dinklage , Jason Schwartzman , Hunter Schafer , Josh Andrés ...
Dec 21, 2023•53 min•Season 2023Ep. 72
Send us a text Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and adapted by Eric Heisserer , who conceived the project as a spec script based on the 1998 short story " Story of Your Life " by Ted Chiang . The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist enlisted by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrials who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war. Jeremy Renner , Forest Whitaker , Michael Stuhlbarg , and Tz...
Oct 19, 2023•52 min•Season 2023Ep. 71
Send us a text Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley . The film stars Dev Patel , Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara , David Wenham , and Nicole Kidman , as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa , Priyanka Bose , Deepti Naval , Tannishtha Chatterjee , and Nawazuddin Siddiqui . It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after be...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 2023Ep. 70
Send us a text Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2022 American mystery and drama film based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Delia Owens . It was directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay by Lucy Alibar , and was produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter. Daisy Edgar-Jones leads the cast featuring Taylor John Smith , Harris Dickinson , Michael Hyatt , Sterling Macer Jr., Jojo Regina, Garret Dillahunt , Ahna O'Reilly , and David Strathairn . The story follows an abandoned yet defiant ...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 2023Ep. 69
Send us a text The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (or simply Breaking Dawn – Part 2 ) is a 2012 American romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg , based on the 2008 novel Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer . The sequel to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011), it is the fifth installment in The Twilight Saga film series . The film stars Kristen Stewart , Robert Pattinson , and Taylor Lautner , reprising their roles as Bella Swan , Edwa...
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 2022Ep. 68
Send us a text The Twilight Saga: Eclipse , commonly referred to as Eclipse , is a 2010 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer 's 2007 novel of the same name and the 2010 companion novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner . It is the third installment of The Twilight Saga film series , following 2008's Twilight and 2009's New Moon . Summit Entertainment greenlit the film in February 2009. Directed by David Slade , the film stars Kristen Stewart , Robert Pattinson , and Taylo...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 2022Ep. 67
Send us a text The Twilight Saga: New Moon , commonly referred to as New Moon , is a 2009 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer 's 2006 novel New Moon . It is the second film in The Twilight Saga film series and is the sequel to 2008's Twilight . Summit Entertainment greenlit the sequel in late November 2008, following the early success of Twilight . Directed by Chris Weitz , the film stars Kristen Stewart , Robert Pattinson , and Taylor Lautner , reprising their roles as Bella...
Oct 23, 2022•56 min•Season 2022Ep. 66
Send us a text Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer 's 2005 novel of the same name . Directed by Catherine Hardwicke , the film stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson . It is the first film in The Twilight Saga film series . This film focuses on the development of the relationship between Bella Swan (a teenage girl) and Edward Cullen (a vampire ), and the subsequent efforts of Edward and his family to keep Bella safe from a coven of evil vampires....
Sep 02, 2022•55 min
Send us a text Divergent is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Neil Burger , based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Veronica Roth . The film is the first installment in The Divergent Series and was produced by Lucy Fisher , Pouya Shahbazian, and Douglas Wick , with a screenplay by Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor . It stars Shailene Woodley , Theo James , Ashley Judd , Jai Courtney , Ray Stevenson , Zoë Kravitz , Miles Teller , Tony Goldwyn , Ansel Elgort , a...
Jul 31, 2022•57 min
Send us a text Snowpiercer is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction action film based on the French graphic climate fiction novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob , Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette . The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho and written by Bong and Kelly Masterson . A South Korean-Czech co-production, the film marks Bong's English-language debut; almost 85% of the film's dialogue is in English....
Jul 04, 2022•56 min
Send us a text Practical Magic is a 1998 American fantasy romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman . The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock , Nicole Kidman , Stockard Channing , Dianne Wiest , Aidan Quinn , and Goran Višnjić ....
May 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Send us a text Tipping the Velvet is a 2002 BBC television drama serial based on the best-selling 1998 debut novel of the same name by Sarah Waters . It originally screened in three episodes on BBC Two and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Sally Head Productions . It stars Rachael Stirling , Keeley Hawes , and Jodhi May ....
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Send us a text Dune (titled onscreen as Dune: Part One ) is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts , and Eric Roth . It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert , primarily covering the first half of the book. Set in the far future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides , is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis . The ensemble c...
Mar 01, 2022•56 min•Season 2021Ep. 2
Send us a text Maid is an American drama limited series created for Netflix by Molly Smith Metzler. The series is inspired by Stephanie Land 's memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. Its story focuses on a young mother who escapes an abusive relationship, subsequently struggling to provide for her daughter by getting a job cleaning houses. It premiered on Netflix on October 1, 2021....
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2022Ep. 1
Send us a text Maid is an American dram a limited series created for Netflix by Molly Smith Metzler. The series is inspired by Stephanie Land 's memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. Its story focuses on a young mother who escapes an abusive relationship, subsequently struggling to provide for her daughter by getting a job cleaning houses. It premiered on Netflix on October 1, 2021....
Dec 24, 2021•58 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text Maid is an American drama limited series created for Netflix by Molly Smith Metzler. The series is inspired by Stephanie Land 's memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. Its story focuses on a young mother who escapes an abusive relationship, subsequently struggling to provide for her daughter by getting a job cleaning houses. It premiered on Netflix on October 1, 2021....
Dec 08, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text Maid is an American drama streaming television limited series inspired by Stephanie Land 's memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive , created by Molly Smith Metzler, that premiered on Netflix on October 1, 2021. Alex Russell, a domestic abused single mom, leaves her abuser with her two-year-old daughter to a shelter and gets a job cleaning houses at Value Maids. Alex deals with raising a young daughter, an abusive ex-boyfriend, dysfunctional family, and gov...
Nov 21, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Send us a text " The Lottery " is a short story written by Shirley Jackson , first published in the June 25, 1948, issue of The New Yorker . The story describes a fictional small town which observes an annual rite known as "the lottery", in which a member of the community is selected by chance. The shocking consequence of being selected in the lottery is revealed only at the end....
Nov 07, 2021•25 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text Chapter One Takes Random Acts of Cinema on a picnic. Stalker (Russian: Сталкер, is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky , loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic . The film combines elements of science fiction with dramatic philosophical and psychological themes....
Oct 24, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction action - thriller film [4] [5] [6] [7] co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón . The screenplay, based on P. D. James ' 1992 novel The Children of Men , was credited to five writers, with Clive Owen making uncredited contributions. The film takes place in 2027, when two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Asylum seekers seek sanctuary in the United Kingdom, where they are subjected to detention and re...
Oct 10, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text Dune is a 1984 American epic science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch and based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name . The film stars Kyle MacLachlan (in his film debut) as young nobleman Paul Atreides , and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles. It was filmed at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City and included a soundtrack by the rock band Toto , as well as Brian Eno . Set in the distant future, the film ...
Sep 25, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 2021Ep. 4
Send us a text Maddy and Briana take a trip down memory lane to discuss all the beautiful books they have read this past season.
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Send us a text Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley . Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein , a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821....
Aug 29, 2021•1 hr
Send us a text In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film , produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso and based on Julia Álvarez 's book of the same name . The story is a fictionalized account for the lives of the Mirabal sisters , Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960. In the film, Salma Hayek played one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays Trujillo...
Aug 15, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Send us a text Half of a Yellow Sun is a 2013 Anglo-Nigerian drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and based on the novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . The film is historical fiction that follows two sisters who are caught up in the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War . It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor , Thandiwe Newton , Onyeka Onwenu , Anika Noni Rose , Joseph Mawle , Genevieve Nnaji , OC Ukeje and John Boyega . The film premiered in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto ...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Send us a text Whale Rider is a 2002 New Zealand-German family drama film written and directed by Niki Caro . Based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Witi Ihimaera , the film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a twelve-year-old Māori girl whose ambition is to become the chief of the tribe. Her grandfather Koro Apirana believes that this is a role reserved for males only. https://events.humanitix.com/chapter-one-take-two-dune-1984...
Jul 18, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Send us a text Once is a 2007 Irish romantic musical drama film written and directed by John Carney . The film stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as two struggling musicians in Dublin , Ireland. Hansard and Irglová had previously performed music as the Swell Season , and composed and performed the film's original songs. Once spent years in development with the Irish Film Board and was made for a budget of €112,000. It was a commercial success, earning substantial per-screen box office averag...
Jul 04, 2021•42 min•Season 2021Ep. 4
Send us a text Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder . It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about African American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race . The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson , a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury...
Jun 20, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Send us a text Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen 's 1811 novel of the same name . Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood , while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne . The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry , as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. Hugh Grant and ...
May 29, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Send us a text The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction . It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name....
May 17, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 16
