Louder Than A Bomb chronicles four teams as they compete in the Chicago area teen poetry slam. Hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the tempestuous lives of these young poets, exploring ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. This is not just “high school poetry,” this is language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance.

Deal with this: The only breaks you get are the ones you take. Jada Pinkett-Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise star as four women living in a Los Angeles housing project who–pushed to the edge–resort to violence to escape poverty in this searing, intimate and action-packed look at real life on America’s mean streets. Now get out of the way as the ladies Set it Off