From Golden Globe® Nominee Director Paul Schrader* (Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Affliction), FIRST REFORMED is a brooding, thriller-drama centred around Ernst Toller (Academy Award® Nominee Ethan Hawke**), a troubled priest of a small, historical church in upstate New York, who starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with Mary (Amanda Seyfried) and her husband Michael, an unstable environmental activist. Consumed by thoughts that the world is in danger and motivated by the church’s lack of action, Toller embarks on a perilous self-assigned undertaking with the hope that he may finally restore the faith and purpose he’s been longing for in his mission to right the wrongs done to so many.

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited as it slowly destroys everything they know. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.

She will forever be remembered as the writer who gave the world frankenstein. but the real-life story of mary shelley – and the creation of her immortal monster – is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. raised by a renowned philosopher father (stephen dillane) in 18th-century london, mary wollstonecraft godwin (elle fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet percy shelley (douglas booth). so begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform mary and fuel the writing of her gothic masterwork. imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, mary shelley brings to life the world of a trailblazing woman who defied onvention and channeled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages.