In 1981, as tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews were starving in refugee camps amidst a brutal civil war and famine, Israeli Mossad agents concocted a plan to evacuate them by sea by re-establishing a previously abandoned hotel on the Sudanese coast and using it as the base for a three-year-long secret operation. This Netflix […]
Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) is a woman who seems to have it all – she’s brilliant, has a successful husband, a loving daughter and lives in a huge house in Seattle. But when an emotional breakdown has her fleeing to Antarctica, her worried family follows to find her, as she looks to find new purpose […]
Inspired by the soulful lyrics of Bruce Springsteen, a British-Pakistani teenager living in the English working class town of Luton during the racial strife and economic dreariness of 1987 finds the courage to follow his dreams, in defiance of his more conservative, immigrant family. Based on the memoirs of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor (who co-wrote the […]
Four teenage girls scuba diving through submerged Mayan ruins off Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula are shocked to discover they are surrounded by a school of deadly Great White Sharks. As their air supplies dwindle, the hysterical teens must race against the clock to avoid the sharks and escape the ruins’ labyrinth of caves and tunnels… or […]
This futuristic, sci-fi blend of live action and CGI, based on the nine-volume 1990s Japanese cyberpunk manga “Gunnm,” is about a kind-hearted cyborg, rescued and revived from a junk pile, who begins a quest to discover her past life. Think of it as one part Fifth Element, one part Blade Runner. Although the screenplay co-written […]
A preacher’s daughter in the impoverished, science-denying recesses of the Appalachian mountains rips her rattlesnake-handling religious community apart when her dark secret comes to light in this thriller from writer/directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage. This is one unsettling, edge-of-your-seat pot boiler – a snake-filled, Shakespearean drama that culminates in an intense finale, made […]
This film adaptation of the 2008 novel by Garth Stein is the story of Enzo, a dog longing to be reincarnated as a human, and his relationship as the loyal canine companion to his race car driving, dog dad Denny, who learns to apply skills learned on the racetrack in his own life when faced […]
A group of teens must face their fears to save their lives in this film adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s popular 1980s collection of children’s horror stories. Produced by Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro, the film, set in 1968, centers on a group of small town teenagers poking around inside a haunted house. When they open a […]
This low budget indie dramedy is about a corporate accountant still sad from his divorce, who breaks out of his everyday routine in Los Angeles when his best friend at work goes missing, leaving him a trail of clues as to her whereabouts throughout National Parks across the West. Once you get past a slow […]
The potty-mouthed, motley crew of lovable fools in Derry, Northern Ireland is back in Season 2 of the comedy series set during The Troubles – the period of sectarian violence between Irish nationalists and British loyalists in the 1990s. Loosely based on show creator Lisa McGee’s own upbringing, this colorful comedy now on Netflix (with really […]