The Five

The Pretenders
Genre: Thriller

Life imitates deadly arts as a French New Wave obsessed film student, Terry, finds his muse in mysterious and beguiling actress, Catherine. Both Terry and his best friend, Phil, fall under the spell of this beautiful woman. But they soon realise that the more time they spend with her, the more enigmatic she becomes.

Smash and Grab
Genre: Animation

Smash and Grab is about two antiquated robots who risk everything for freedom and for each other after years of toiling away inside the engine room of a towering locomotive.

The Central Park Five
Documentary

In April 1989, 28-year-old Trisha Meili was brutally assaulted and raped as she was jogging in New York City’s Central Park. That same night, five young men – four black, one Hispanic – were arrested for suspected gang activity in the park; after hours of interrogations and coerced confessions, the teenage boys were charged with assault, robbery, rape, sexual abuse, and the attempted murder of Meili. What ensued was a media firestorm, in which racism within the confines of the courtroom – and on the front pages of the city’s tabloids – led to the boy’s conviction.

Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin and Deep in the Heart of Texas
Genre: Stand-up comedy

Nearly 17 years after taking the comedy world by storm with his legendary special, Killin’ Them Softly, Dave Chappelle returned to the stage with two hour-long stand-up performances. The specials, which constitute Chappelle’s first televised comedy work in more than a decade, prove that one of America’s funniest and most iconic laugh miners still has “it.” In The Age of Spin, recorded at the Hollywood Palladium, Chappelle details his four encounters with O.J. Simpson and riffs on the Bill Cosby scandal.

Alexa Rose: Medicine for Living
Music album

In an era where the term Americana has lost much of its meaning Medicine for Living is just that: a fully realised, multi-layered merger of old country music, traditional folk songs, coloured by rock and roll and mountain soul. And just like the blues musicians who play in restaurants and on porches in the mountains of Virginia, Alexa Rose sounds like she’s tied to a place. Her folk-tinged music is modern, but it’s very much music of the American South.

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