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Moonlight

A Search for Understanding As our movie opens, we see a young black boy running, and he’s running for his life. Moonlight  is an exceptional film based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue and is likely one of … Continue reading

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Maliglutit (Searchers)

A search for humanity? Spinning Reels presents the latest epic from Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk: Maliglutit (Searchers) Inspired by the classic John Ford western The Searchers, in which a vengeful husband sets off in pursuit of the men who kidnapped his … Continue reading

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Denial

You Can’t Handle the Truth! Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (Youth, The Lobster), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner, The King’s Speech), and Tom Wilkinson (Belle, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) star in this riveting courtroom drama about a real-life legal battle … Continue reading

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The Eagle Huntress

The Eagle Huntress is a visually stunning documentary that follows Aisholpan Nurgaiv, a 13-year-old girl who becomes the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a longstanding patrilineal tradition. Perched precariously … Continue reading

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Little Men

Who and what forms us in our lives? Spinning Reels examined an aspect of that question when we screen Little Men, a story of two boys who meet during their formative years. The two boys are quite different when they are … Continue reading

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Sing Street

Life is a Song! It’s always hard to start over, and for youngsters it’s even harder when they are ‘coming of age’. What would you do if  you were forced to change schools and leave all your friends behind- why, … Continue reading

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Love & Friendship- November 14, 2016

The More Things Change…. Love & Friendship revolves around the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon(Kate Beckinsale), a recent widow who engineers all manner of wonderfully devious plots to bend the world to her will and land herself a wealthy … Continue reading

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Genius- October 24, 2016

How DO you understand genius? Genius takes a journey back in time to the vital New York literary scene of the Roaring Twenties and stars Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, The Railway Man) as Max Perkins, the legendary literary editor … Continue reading

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Sunset Song-October 17, 2016

“There are lovely things in the world; Lovely that do not endure … and all the lovelier for it.” Chronicling the joys and sorrows of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), the daughter of a farming family in northeast Scotland, Sunset Song is … Continue reading

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The Dressmaker-Sept.26, 2016

 Our New Season Kicks off and We’re Dressed to the Nines!  Spinning Reels presents The Dressmaker on September 26, 7:00 PM at the Norwood Theatre. This wickedly comic drama stars Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs, Labor Day, Titanic) as Tilly, a worldly dressmaker … Continue reading

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