10th ANNIVERSARY! Damien Chazelle's breathtaking, multi Oscar-winning drama of personal obsession bursts back onto the cinema screen. A monumental box office success at Cinema Nova upon first release, WHIPLASH stars Miles Teller and JK Simmons (in an Oscar-winning performance) as an aspiring jazz musician and his tyrannical teacher. It has since become regarded as a modern classic, rivetingly depicting that the pursuit of greatness is not always pretty.