Imogen Poots

Jesse Eisenberg

Alessandro Nivola

Leland Orser

After he's attacked on the street at night by a roving motorcycle gang, timid bookkeeper Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei (Alessandro Nivola), and hardcore brown belt Anna (Imogen Poots), Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence for the first time in his life. But when he attends Sensei's mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of fraternity, brutality and hyper-masculinity, presenting a journey that places him squarely in the sights of his enigmatic new mentor.—Bleecker Street

The Art of Self-Defense

The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

In the near future, an extinction level event rocks planet Earth, and an underground bunker is activated. Its program is designed to repopulate the Earth. A robot, called Mother (voiced by Rose Byrne), initiates her program and grows a human embryo into a baby, which it then raises into childhood. The young girl asks Mother why she's the only child, and Mother tells her she needs some time to learn about raising children.
Many years later, a teenage Daughter (Clara Rugaard) lives with Mother in the bunker. Mother gives Daughter lessons on ethics and morals in preparation for a looming exam. Later, the power goes out in the facility, taking mother out with it. Daughter goes to find the source of the trouble and captures a mouse that led to an electrical malfunction. Daughter thinks the mouse means there is life outside the bunker, but Mother believes the mouse could be a carrier for disease and incinerates it. Still curious, Daughter begins investigating, dons a hazmat suit, and starts poking around the facility's airlock. Once there, she hears a Woman (Hilary Swank) wounded badly from a gunshot and crying out for help from outside. Daughter opens the lock, gets the Woman to put on a hazmat suit, and leaves her hidden in the airlock as Mother quickly arrives. Mother insists that contagion outside the bunker would kill her, and then tells her that she take her exam immediately.Daughter heads back to the airlock to find the Woman asleep. She finds a gun in her bag and takes it, then gives her water - when the Woman takes her mask off to drink it, Daughter realizes there must not be contamination outside the bunker. While Daughter goes to get medical supplies, Woman sees Mother and reaches for her gun but finds it missing. When Daughter returns, Woman demands the gun saying that Mother is just like "her friends outside". Woman shoots at Mother but is quickly overpowered and taken to the infirmary, where the Woman refuses Mother's medical aid. Daughter confronts Mother about the supposed toxicity levels outside, and Mother admits that she lied to keep her safe and is not like the robots who attacked the Woman. Mother tells Daughter they can help any other survivors but they need the Woman to cooperate.Daughter tries to convince Woman that Mother isn't bad, but the Woman tells her she's seen the horrors the robots have inflicted. Daughter asks Mother if she knows other robots, but Mother says she doesn't remember ever not being in the bunker. Woman's conditions worsens, and Mother says she'll need surgery. Woman refuses to let Mother operate, so Daughter volunteers. Mother guides her through the surgery, which is tough but successful. After the surgery, Woman is kinder to Daughter. Woman confesses she was on a food run with her brother when the robots attacked. Her brother distracted them and she got away, never making it back to the mines where her people live. Woman tells Daughter she should go with her, but Mother interrupts and tells Daughter to take her exam. Mother confiscates Woman's bag, and when Daughter asks why, Mother says that the bullet they pulled from Woman matches the one she fired at Mother with gun she brought in - not a gun robots use. She was shot by another human. Mother thinks she's dangerous.Daughter completes the exam. When she passes, Mother allows Daughter to select a new embryo to add to their family. Daughter confronts Woman about lying, but Woman asks her if she saw the bullets with her own eyes. She breaches security and checks the bullets herself, and finds they don't match. She goes through more records and learns that Mother had raised several other children before her, and finds human remains in the incinerator. Daughter returns to Woman and tells her she believes her. Woman insists they go back to the mine, but Daughter wants to wait for her currently gestating new brother and says they just need to stay one more night. Before she can, Mother, who was eavesdropping on the escape plan, locks her in a room and goes Woman, demanding the location of the mines. Daughter breaks out, setting off alarms, and in the melee Woman is also able to escape. In order to escape, Woman holds a knife to Daughter's throat which forces Mother to open the airlock, and they escape. Daughter is angry, but goes along with Woman.Outside, they narrowly avoid some other robots, which appear to be planting crops and purifying the air. Mother says that before the robots the Earth was virtually uninhabitable. When they reach Woman's home, Daughter learns that Woman actually fled the tunnels years before and has been living alone for a long time. Daughter wants to find them, but Woman says they had devolved into madness. Daughter is horrified she left her brother and flees to go back to the compound - Woman refuses, too scared. She encounters a fleet of robots who let her pass. She enters the compound, taking an axe for protection, and finds Mother and her brother. Mother explains that she was created to protect humanity, and when she saw the human race destroying themselves, she took action to create a new world that humans would flourish in, and raising humans who are ethical. Mother lets Daughter hold her brother, and when Daughter attempts to flee, Mother chases her. Daughter aims a gun at her but Mother reveals that she is every robot on Earth - all one consciousness. Daughter pleads with Mother to let her raise the brother on her own, and Mother acquiesces, letting Daughter shoot her, destroying that body.The Woman is alone when Mother comes to her and implies that she was only alive and free to serve her plans, and kills her. At the compound, the Daughter sings a lullaby to her brother, then walks into the embryo room - now the mother to them all.

I Am Mother

I Am Mother (2019)

In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas Lockhart (Boyd Holbrook), hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces every nine years. But when the killer's crimes begin to defy all scientific explanation, Locke's obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his career, his family, and possibly his sanity.—Netflix

In the Shadow of the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

In the late nineteenth century, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, Seamus's son Edward goes missing, and a boy is found murdered. The locals suspect a wild animal, but visiting pathologist John McBride warns of a more sinister presence lurking in the woods.—Flagship cinemas

The Cursed

The Cursed (2021)

Brenda (Queen Latifah), a woman who takes her two kids Cam (Shaun Dixon), & Kelly (Mychala Lee) and her brother Reggie (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) on a cross-country road trip when she decides to relocate after the tragic death of her husband.
Her problems start when her daughter gives the finger to two racist rednecks. These thugs confront Brenda when she and her family get further down the road, and she is forced to humiliate herself in front of them. Bigger problems arise during their stay in a motel when they hear noises coming from next door. After hearing a gunshot, Brenda and Reggie investigate and find a dying man slumped against the wall. While Brenda tries to save him, Reggie foolishly decides to take a bag of cash that he finds in the bathroom.The money is originally in the hands of a drugs cartel, and this is later passed to two men who work for the mysterious Mr. Cross. One of these men, Harvey Ruck (Jesse Luken), betrays his partner Ochoa (Efrain Villa), kills him, and flees with the cash. He hides out in a motel, and this is where Brenda and Reggie find him.
Unfortunately, they don't find Harvey alive and well and living life to the full in his motel room. After booking a stay in the room next door to Harvey, the family hear a gunshot from the man's room. When Brenda and Reggie investigate, they find his dying body. As she is a certified nurse, Brenda desperately tries to save his life and she asks Reggie to get towels from a bathroom. When looking in a cupboard for the towels, Reggie also finds the money.Unbeknownst to Brenda, Reggie takes the money, not for selfish gain but because he thinks it will help his family. Unfortunately, his actions do his family more harm than good.
After giving their statements to the police, the family continue on their journey. Brenda then receives two phone calls. One call is from Arizona state trooper Captain J.D. Hammers (Beau Bridges) asking her to return to the motel and another is from a stranger who demands that she give back the money.
After speaking to the stranger, she realizes what Reggie has done. While initially unwilling to break up her journey and return to the motel, she finally decides she needs to in order to return the stolen money.After placing the bag in another motel room, she leaves a key under the doormat and calls the stranger to let them know the money has been returned.
While enjoying a day out with her family at a Wild West-themed Park, Cam decides he needs to use the washroom. Meanwhile, Brenda receives another call from the stranger. The person on the phone tells her that Cam has been abducted from the washroom by Mr. Cross and that if she wants to see him again, she has to deliver the money to a specific location.Leaving Kelly with Reggie, Brenda returns to the motel but when she gets to the room where the money was placed, she discovers the bag of cash has gone.
When Brenda returned the money, she was sighted by one of the motel's staff members. After a brief moment of panic, she sees the female employee with the bag. Brenda gives chase and follows the girl to a trailer park. While here, Brenda is confronted by a group of white extremists. She is then knocked unconscious by the girl.
When she wakes up, she tackles her captors and demands the release of the money they have taken. They don't take her seriously at first but when she tells them it belongs to Mr. Cross, they tremble at the name and give the money back to her.Meanwhile, Reggie and Cam meet with Captain Hammers. Kelly lets him know what has happened to Cam and she and Reggie then journey with Hammers to his ranch, which is supposed to be a place of safety for them while he carries out his investigation into Cam's disappearance.
Hammers introduces the two of them to his wife, a woman who looks warm and hospitable. Unfortunately, she is anything but. It turns out that Hammers is Mr. Cross, his wife is his accomplice, and they are the people responsible for Cam's kidnapping.
Reggie, Kelly, and Cam get locked inside Hammer's basement. While there, the corrupt Captain calls Brenda and demands that she brings the money to him.The captured trio manage to escape and when Hammers tries to stop them, they throw bleach in his eyes. They then overpower his wife and lock her and Hammers in the basement.
At this point, Brenda arrives and is elated to see that her family are safe. She leaves the bag of money on the driveway and leaves with her family.But before they can get far, Hammers and his wife escape from the basement and come after them. A car chase ensues, resulting in Brenda falling out of the car that Reggie is driving.
It looks like the end is nigh for Brenda when Hammers and his wife try to run her down but when she throws a road flare into their car, she survives while the two crooks perish in the burning car.
While sitting in a diner, light-fingered Reggie reveals that he took some of the money from the bag to help the family get a fresh start.Brenda is not happy about this news, and she tells her family that they need to give it back. There is just one problem: they don't know to who the money originally belonged! Reluctantly, Brenda decides to keep the cash when she realizes there is nobody to hand it to.
The movie ends with them enjoying breakfast, presumably helping themselves to a second helping with the money that Reggie has secured for them!

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The Art of Self-Defense

2019

Action/ Comedy/ Crime/ Drama/ Mystery/ Sport/ Thriller

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Duration: 104 min

IMDB Rating: 6.6

Language: en

MPA Rating: R

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Imogen Poots as -Anna

Jesse Eisenberg as -Casey

Alessandro Nivola as -Sensei

Leland Orser as -Detective McCallister

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