Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D) directs this horror/thriller about a young collegiate swimmer trying to elude massive, hungry alligators as she rescues her father from the basement of a house that is flooding during a Category 5 hurricane. Never mind that the film is set in south Florida, where basements are non-existent, or that the fake-looking […]
Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation is a surprisingly compelling History Channel docu-series (also available below on Amazon) starring Luis Elizondo, a former Defense Department employee who was featured in a much talked about, 2017 New York Times article that revealed the existence of a secret U.S. government UFO program. Elizondo, who says he left the DoD just before that […]
Florence Pugh stars in this horror/mystery about a distraught young woman mourning the tragic murder/suicide of her parents and sister, who decides to join her boyfriend and his friends on a nine-day trip to an idyllic midsummer nature retreat in rural Sweden. There, under northern Scandinavia’s summer solstice of perpetual sun, they learn they are […]
This breezy follow-up to 2019’s way more serious Avengers: Endgame follows Spider-Man’s Peter Parker (Tom Holland) on his high school class trip to Europe, where a late night visit from Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) has him torn between hanging out with his would-be girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and saving the world from a new evil menace targeted […]
Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant stars in this Hulu original comedy about Annie, an overweight journalist who transforms her life when, instead of shedding pounds, she gradually sheds a lifetime of internalized shame and body issues. Bryant executive produced and co-wrote the series based on Lindy West’s popular 2016 memoir, “Shrill: Notes From a Loud […]
Imagine an alternate reality where The Beatles, the most influential band of all time, never existed but YOU know all their songs and can pass them off as your own creations. Such is the premise of this musical rom-com fantasy starring Himesh Patel (EastEnders) as a struggling musician with a sudden opportunity for fame after […]
This “tween-quel,” set after the first two Annabelle movies (Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation) but somewhere in the middle of the larger, seven-film, Conjuring franchise, is about the horrors unleashed in the Warren home after Ed and Lorraine (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) leave town for a job and the inquisitive friend of their daughter’s babysitter releases it […]
This fourth (and likely final) installment in the popular Toy Story franchise is about what toys do with themselves when their child loses interest in them – a fitting, albeit somewhat darker storyline, given the aging viewer demographic of the 24-year-old franchise. When Bonnie ignores Woody (Tom Hanks) for Forky (Tony Hale), a new, googley-eyed […]
This Netflix reboot of the 1993 and 1998 TV series, based on Armistead Maupin’s popular novels, picks up 23 years later, when straight-laced Mary Ann (Laura Linney) returns to San Francisco’s 28 Barbary Lane to celebrate the 90th birthday of beloved, pot-smoking, transgender boarding house owner Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis) and reunite with Shawna (Ellen […]
When manmade climate change causes Earth’s poles to shift, the dead come back to life in the bucolic, small town of Centerville, USA. Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny are the puzzled police officers headlining an all-star line-up in this quirky horror/comedy from writer/director Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive, Broken Flowers). The cast […]