James Purefoy

The first female-driven Wall Street film, follows a senior investment banker who is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption.

History’s Roots will premiere on Memorial Day, May 30, 2016 and will be simulcast on A&E and Lifetime. A historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship.

We’re halfway through Sundance and people are still buzzing about Daniel Radcliffe’s “farting corpse” movie. More importantly, studios are paying top dollar for the hottest movies playing at the festival — and The Birth of a Nation is one of them.

With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. In the category of U.S. Dramatic Competition, the festival features domestic narrative films from up and coming filmmakers. Here’s a few of those films that caught our attention.

during the 48 hours leading up to the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, the film focuses on the relationship between WWII leader Winston Churchill and his wife Clemmie.

A thief on the run from the law must now contend with a ruthless gang of assassins.

Story follows a bright teen girl who’s trapped in the dark Southern underworld of violence and guns, meth labs and vicious biker gangs, and whose only refuge is chess.

Logline: A thief on the run from the law must now contend with a ruthless gang of assassins.

Logline: Story follows a bright teen girl who’s trapped in the dark Southern underworld of violence and guns, meth labs and vicious biker gangs, and whose only refuge is chess.

Logline: Story centers on the short life of brilliant young 16th-century playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Logline: Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants hell-bent on an orgy of destruction take to action as cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on ‘enemy’ floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for technological mayhem, slowly reverting the rules of survival to the most base primal instinacts of kill… or be killed.

Logline: A Civil War officer is taken to Mars where is captured by barbaric green men. He eventually becomes their champion and goes on many adventures.