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From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block follows a gang of tough inner-city kids who try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, turning a South London apartment complex into an extraterrestrial warzone.

“Attack the Block attacks the alien invasion genre with wit, energy and a cheeky insolence that makes it out of this world.” -Tom Long, Detroit News

Excerpt from event host Brian Cristi:
Post Screening Discussion: OU Student Filmmaker and fellow Chicagoan Cedric Simmons will be present to reflect on the film and issues he faces as an African American. I will also answer questions about my attendance of a Socialism conference in Chicago this summer with OU Student Activists. Currently trying to add other pertinent representatives. Black Lives Matter is a very specific movement. It is right to therefore clarify that this film screening was organized inspired prominently by Black Lives Matter along with other movements of social importance. This event is shaping up to be a gateway event. A primer. A first step into a larger arena. The theme of the screening event will revolve around the exploration of Differences. Black Lives Matter, Inequality in Society, Socialism, The Failure of Educational Systems, The Current Presidential Election all of these topics are connected. There is much to reflect on and nothing brings people together like a fun provocative science-fiction film.

To help Brian put on this event, please visit his GoFundMe page for the show.

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88 MIN

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OHIO, 1951- A young Jewish college student named Marcus struggles to fit in at a midwestern college, as he clashes with his conservative dean and becomes romantically involved with a girl whose history with mental illness makes him question his upbringing. Based on the best-selling novel by Phillip Roth.

“Indignation might be dismissed as a small, exquisite period piece, but it is so precisely rendered that it gets deeply under your skin. There are a lot of words, and every one counts. You feel the social pressures bearing down on characters who, in accordance with the reticence of the times, tend to withhold their emotions and suffer in silence.”- Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“Indignation tells a very particular story, one that’s bittersweet, heartbreaking and bleakly comic all at once, and it gets it right.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“This is one helluva compelling film that presents us with several of the very best performances of the year. Lerman and Letts, in particular, present us with fully-developed characterizations that will remain with audiences long after they leave the theater.”- Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times

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110 MIN

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A sequel to the hit UK show, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie follows best friends Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone who are still partying their way around London. When they accidentally push supermodel Kate Moss into the River Thames, Edina and Patsy escape to the French Riviera where they hatch a plan to live fabulously forever.

“the real joy in Absolutely Fabulous, as ever, comes from the charisma between Saunders and Lumley.”- Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times

“To understand what Absolutely Fabulous (first a TV show and now a movie) means to Brits, you’d have to go back to the TV premiere, in 1992. Margaret Thatcher had their economy in a stranglehold until her departure as prime minister two years earlier, and when every sensible citizen was looking for a way out of the first Gulf War and a more liberal savior, somehow — miraculously, unfortunately — conservatives showed up to the polls in record numbers and took the general election. The rich had gotten richer with tax cuts mirroring our own trickle-down Reaganomics and, with little control over economic trends, the only thing left to do was make fun of the wealthy. Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), two hard-drinking, youth-obsessed bacchanalian ne’er-do-wells, were fit for the skewer. Now, in this post-Brexit world, they are back once again to lampoon the swells, the racists, the tech-and-vanity addicted. The pair revels in excess and proves that we all take ourselves a little too seriously.”- April Wolfe, Village Voice

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91 MIN

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Attracted to the glamor of Hollywood in the 1930s, Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) leaves his home in the Bronx and joins his uncle (Steve Carell) in California. Bobby falls in love with his uncles’s assistant Vonnie (Kristen Stewart), who does not return his feelings. Disillusioned, Bobby returns to New York and falls in love with Veronica (Blake Lively), a beautiful socialite, only to be caught off guard when Vonnie re-enters his life.

“Café Society is a gorgeous and lightweight confection, a love letter to the Hollywood of the mid-1930s, as well as the New York of the same era.”- Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

“Romantic, bittersweet and funny as hell, Café Society turns Hollywood inside out, rooting through the superficial tinsel to find the real tinsel. You go away gobsmacked, beaming and happy to be both.”- Rex Reed, New York Observer

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96 MIN

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Following the death of his wife, Ben (Viggo Mortensen) and his children are forced to leave their idyllic lifestyle in the Pacific Northwest and face the challenges of modern society. Ben’s family-in-law, seeing how sheltered his children are, demand that he permanently re-enter mainstream society or face a custody battle.

“The movie really belongs to Mortensen, who allows Ben to be exasperating, arrogant and impatient but also warm, loving and caring. He’s a tough but adoring father, a grieving widower and an angry defender of his wife’s final wishes, and Mortensen plays all these notes and more with subtlety and grace.”- Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

“Viggo Mortensen gets the role he may well have been born to play, not as a superhero, but as a super-dad determined to raise his kids on his own terms.”- Peter Debruge, Variety

“…it’s a movie that enthralls the senses and engages the mind for two hours, proving no movie is too long when you’re having fun.” – Rex Reed, New York Observer

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118 MIN

Based on the novel Hunt by Barry Crump, troublemaker Ricky is sent to the countryside of New Zealand to live with a foster family. When his foster aunt tragically passes away, Ricky is told by child services that he is going to return to the city, against his will. Ricky runs away from his foster uncle, who follows him into the wilderness, leading the authorities to believe that Ricky has been kidnapped by his foster uncle.

“Like Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, Hunt for the Wilderpeople magically taps into the logic, thought processes, and emotions of a child. It’s a rich, strange, and wondrous world.”-Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer 

“…One of the most sincere and funny portraits of family life to come along in a while.”- April Wolfe, Village Voice

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101 MIN