SESSION: Saturday 15th August at 7:30pm


Love & Mercy

(2014, dir. Bill Pohlad, w/ Elizabeth Banks, John Cusack, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti)

The life of reclusive Beach Boys song-writer and musician Brian Wilson, from his successes with highly influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous break-down and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. (IMDB)

FILM INFO Not reviewed.

Still Alice

(2014, dir. Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, w/ Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth, Shane McRae, Hunter Parrish)

Still Alice will start at approximately 9:56pm, and finish at approximately 11:43pm.

Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor happily married with three grown children. All that begins to change when she strangely starts to forget words and then more. When her doctor diagnoses her with Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family's lives face a harrowing challenge as this terminal degenerative neurological ailment slowly progresses to an inevitable conclusion they all dread. Along the way, Alice struggles to not only to fight the inner decay, but to make the most of her remaining time to find the love and peace to make simply living worthwhile. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 4444(Astor rating)