Chill out and revel in a nice evening in with Cox Motion pictures On Demand! LEATHERFACE It is odd to name the discharge of a prequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” a bittersweet occasion, but that’s the case with this origin story for Leatherface, arriving just a few months after the dying of Tobe Hooper , the director of the 1974 unique.
Directed by A Larger Splash’s Luca Gaudagnino from a script by James Ivory (sure, that James Ivory), and based on the novel by André Aciman, Call Me By Your Identify tells the story of a young person, Elio, who has a romantic affair together with his father’s 24-yr-outdated scholar Oliver over one attractive summer season in Italy.
THE FLORIDA CHALLENGE Sean Baker makes movies about unseen” communities in plain sight: transgender prostitutes and cabdrivers in Los Angeles (Tangerine”), say, or the world of pornographic filmmaking in Starlet.” An unlikely crowd-pleaser, The Florida Mission” is centered on a seedy motel close to Disney World, the place Mr. Baker’s 6-yr-old heroine (the exuberant Brooklynn Prince) lives jubilantly, despite poverty and squalid environment.
It’s referred to as Star Wars: The Final Jedi, and it stars up-and-comer Daisy Ridley as a younger woman with special presents, teaming up with legendary actor Mark Hamill to learn how to grasp her skills so she can help her buddies survive a difficult period in their lives.
EXTRAORDINARY ODD FOLKS As a part of a decades-spanning undertaking, the filmmaker and arts advocate Alan Govenar profiles winners of the National Heritage Fellowship, an award given to traditional and folks artists by the National Endowment for the Arts.