A burned out boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) obsessed with catching an elusive giant tuna starts questioning his reality when his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) shows up, asking him to kill her monstrously abusive, alcoholic husband (Jason Clarke), the stepfather to their son. You instantly know everything is NOT “alright, alright, alright” with this sloppy psychological thriller […]
In this spin-off from the Fast and Furious franchise, lawman Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and outcast Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-enhanced villain (Idris Elba) threatens the future of humanity. Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Mission Impossible: Fallout) is Shaw’s estranged sis/MI6 agent trying to stop the end of the world. For […]
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as an actor in TV Westerns and his stunt double/best friend in 1969 Los Angeles, in writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s nostalgic, star-studded ode to the end of Hollywood’s Golden Era, punctuated by the arrival of Charles Manson and his deadly cult. At two hours and 41 minutes, the meandering, largely […]
Fresh from her breakout comic role in 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians, rapper, comedian, and now actress Awkwafina takes an unexpected, serious turn in this drama about an Asian-American family that returns to China to visit the family matriarch, who’s NOT been told she has terminal lung cancer. Writer/director Lulu Wang’s story is based on a real life […]
Emma Thompson stars in this drama about a judge deciding the case of a hospital trying to force a teenager with leukemia to receive a lifesaving blood transfusion in defiance of his family’s religious beliefs. Her decision sparks an unusual, thought-provoking chain of events. Viewers expecting a run of the mill legal drama based on […]
Years and Years is an unsettling, dystopian BBC fantasy series on HBO, which tracks the Lyons family in Manchester, England from 2019 through 2034. Created by Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who, Queer as Folk, A Very English Scandal), the six part saga tells a grim tale of how major world events – the rise of political […]
This romantic drama, loosely based on the novel by Heidi McLaughlin, is about a country music superstar (Alex Roe) who returns to his hometown in rural Louisiana eight years after inexplicably abandoning his would-be bride (Jessica Rothe) at the alter. While writer/director Bethany Ashton Wolf’s schmaltzy, pothole-filled story appears inspired by the entire Nicholas Sparks […]
This astoundingly realistic-looking remake of Disney’s 1994 classic animated film, based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, features a slew of big names – Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogan and Chiwetel Ejiofor – helmed by director Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book). The film’s CGI animation is absolutely phenomenal. It looks so realistic – reminiscent of stunning documentaries like […]
When her mother dies from a drug overdose, two-year-old Pihu is left to fend for herself home alone, oblivious to the life threatening dangers posed by everyday household items, in this dramatic thriller now on Netflix. Writer/director Vinod Kapri bills this Hindi language movie as a social thriller based on a story he read about […]
Just hours after he is fired from his high-profile job as a designer at a world famous shoe company and is dumped by his sexy girlfriend, a despondent Drew (Orlando Bloom) finds out his father has unexpectedly died, so he must fly to Elizabethtown, Kentucky for his memorial. During his flight he meets a chatty, […]