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Every Tuesday at 2:00 p.m.

At the Brookhaven Free Library

March 4- Dallas Buyers Club (2014) Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, , Denis O'Hare, Kevin Rankin, , Griffin Dunne, Steve Zahn. Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely successful 'buyers' club.' Rated R. Running time- 117 minutes.

March 11- (2014) Starring , , , Garrett Hedlund and John Goodman. Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making. Rated R. Running time- 104 minutes.

March 18- (2014) Starring , , , , . Brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, are forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia who are as dangerous as they are enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the cons and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Rated R. Running time- 138 minutes.

March 25- Mandela- Long Walk to Freedom (2014) Starring Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society. Rated PG-13. Running time- 147 minutes.