Now Playing at the Avalon

A literature professor in revolutionary Iran gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to immerse themselves in banned literary classics.

Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY is an epic adaptation of Homer’s saga, charting the long and perilous journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he attempts to return home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus following the conclusion of the Trojan War.

When an employee of the Public Library is terrorized by an unseen phantom, Columbia U parapsychologists Ray, Peter, and Egon are hired to investigate. After their funding is revoked, they seize the opportunity to open their own business as paranormal exterminators.

A love letter to a peculiarly Irish cinema experience…Over the course of one evening, we follow the travails of beleaguered cinema owner Earl as he faces a myriad of disasters, any one of which could sink him.

Veteran newscaster Howard Beale knows that he is about to be dumped – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final program.

After his dreams of being a big league baseball player as a young man are shattered, the 35-year-old Roy Hobbs reappears, along with his childhood bat ‘wonderboy’, as a rookie with The New York Knights.

A profile of best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, who was openly queer but intensely private, and whose life was devoted to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved.

Ted Striker, ex-fighter pilot with a drinking problem, is forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning from the fish dinner. It’s now up to Ted and his former girlfriend/stewardess Elaine, who had the chicken, to land the plane and save everyone on board.

A Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco overcomes his years of captivity and lack of survival skills to answer the call of the wild – and discovers he was wild inside all along.

After arriving in L.A. from the east coast Daniel becomes the object of bullying by the Cobras, a menacing gang of karate students, when he strikes up relationship with Ali, the Cobra leader’s ex-girlfriend. Eager to fight back Daniel asks his handyman Miyagi, a master of martial arts, to teach him karate.

An Ivorian pastor and former journalist, Marie, opens her home in Tunisia to three generations of migrant women. As the four women grow closer in this makeshift family, they must grapple with poverty, conflict, and alienation.

A group of Southern California high school students explore their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in this hilarious portrait of 1980s American teen life.

In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends – sensitive Gordie, tough guy Chris, flamboyant Teddy, and scaredy-cat Vern – are in search of a missing teenager’s body. Wanting to be heroes, they set out on a two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery.

Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth …