With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. The Spotlight, Special Events and Shorts program include something new from J.J. Abrams, Cannes-darling The Lobster, and Don Cheadle as Miles Davis.
Kevin MacDonald
A submarine captain, recently laid off by a salvage company, puts together a crew of English and Russian sailors to look for a sunken sub reputed to be loaded with gold at the bottom of the Black Sea.
“The Last King of Scotland” director takes on the Elvis mythos.
Story follows a troubled 15-year-old New Yorker, sent across the pond to stay with her cousins, who embarks on a harrowing odyssey across the country when a foreign power invades England.
Logline: A submarine captain, recently laid off by a salvage company, puts together a crew of English and Russian sailors to look for a sunken sub reputed to be loaded with gold at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Logline: Follows Elvis Presley’s first 24 years, leaving off when his rise is interrupted by his being drafted into the army.
Logline: Set in Roman Britain in the second century AD, the story follows a young Roman officer, Marcus Flavius Aquila, trying to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father’s legion in northern Britain.
Logline: In the future the ruling class of our planet discovers the power to restructure time, and therefore are granted the name “The Eternals”. However, their dominance over the world is threatened when one of the Eternals falls in love with a human.
Logline: Story follows a troubled 15-year-old New Yorker, sent across the pond to stay with her cousins, who embarks on a harrowing odyssey across the country when a foreign power invades England.
