Film Previews

“Pillion”

NR | 106 minutes
Director: Harry Lighton
Writers: Harry Lighton, Adam Mars-Jones
Stars: Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård, Douglas Hodge

Colin (Harry Melling), a weedy wallflower letting life pass him by, meets Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), the impossibly handsome leader of a motorbike club, who then takes him on as his submissive. Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way. But, as Colin steps deeper into Ray’s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is for him. Has he found his calling, or simply swapped one form of suffocation for another?

“The Bride” 

R | 126 minutes
Director/Writer: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard

Dr. Frankenstein and his lonely Creature travel to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius (Annette Bening) in creating a companion for the Creature (Christian Bale). The two doctors reinvigorate a murdered young woman, and the Bride (Jessie Buckley) is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.

“Hoppers”

Director: Daniel Chong
Writers: Daniel Chong, Jesse Andrews
Stars: Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm

What if you could talk to animals and understand what they’re saying? In Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film “Hoppers,” scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure introduces Mabel (Piper Curda), an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined. ♦