Videoreleases
Bad Education
Dr. Frank Tassone (Jackman), beloved school superintendent of the Roslyn Union Free School District, and his longtime assistant, Pam Gluckin (Janney), have made Long Island’s own Roslyn High School the fourth-ranked public school in the country with drastic, sweeping improvements that also continue to positively
Seth gets serious: Seth Macfarlane is best known as the mastermind behind the Fox animated series
“Family Guy” and “American
Dad” and movies such as “Ted”
(2012). But after impact the local economy. Writing an article for the school’s newspaper about some new construction for the school, student reporter Rachel Bhargava (Viswanathan) is encouraged by Frank to treat the project as a professional journalist would, and in doing so, the student unwittingly discovers the largest public school embezzlement scheme in American history. Director: Cory Finley. Stars: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano,welker White,allison Janney,alex Wolff, Rafael Casal, Stephen Spinella, Geraldine Viswanathan. 2019. 108 mins. Drama.
First Cow
‘Tiny Chef‘s’ big deal:
Traveling through the Oregon Territory in 1820, timid chef Otis
“Cookie” Figowitz (Magaro) dreams of opening a bakery in San Francisco. While journeying with a group of fur trappers, Cookie comes upon King-lu (Lee), a Chinese immigrant on the run for murdering a Russian man, and the pair form an unlikely friendship. Upon learning that the first-ever milk cow is being brought to the Territory, to the home of Chief Factor
(Jones), Cookie and Lu concoct a plan to steal milk from the cow to make Cookie’s alluring baked goods and sell them for a hefty profit to the men at the outpost. Director: Kelly Reichardt. Stars: Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Dylan Smith, Ryan Findley, Manuel Rodriguez, Orion Lee,toby Jones. 2019. 122 mins. Drama.