This old fashioned World War I drama stars Sam Claflin and Paul Bettany as members of a British brigade in Northern France facing imminent attack from massing German troops in what would later be known as the infamous 1918 “Spring Offensive.” The film is an adaptation of R.C. Sheriff’s acclaimed stage play he wrote a […]
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in this unconventional love story about two lesbian lovers caught between their love for one another and their ultra-conservative Jewish Orthodox religion. This romantic drama is based on the 2006 novel from Naomi Alderman. When the more secular Ronit (Weisz) returns to London from New York City following the […]
Imagine a reversed engineered version of 2015’s The Martian, only instead of Matt Damon figuring out how to survive alone on Mars using recycled poop to grow plants, we have a young scientist (Margaret Qualley) eeking out an existence while trying to save a rapidly dying Earth. (Looks like all those warnings about climate change […]
Otis, a shy, socially awkward teenager, is absolutely mortified about having a mother who is a sex therapist. But when he and the school’s bad girl Maeve realize that he has inherited his mom’s knack for giving sound sex advice, they set up an underground sex therapy clinic for their fellow classmates, with interesting and […]
An almost unrecognizable, destroyed-looking Nicole Kidman stars in this gritty crime thriller as a guilt-ridden, vengeance-minded Los Angeles police detective who, 16 years after a botched undercover assignment, has a chance to redeem herself and finally bring a gang leader to justice. Aided by a very cleverly constructed script, director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, XX, […]
Keira Knightley stars in this biopic about Colette, France’s most celebrated female writer and performer, who penned dozens of novels and short stories over her lifetime, among them – La Vagabonde, Chéri and Gigi. This period piece chronicles Colette’s early years – her first marriage to Henry Gauthier-Villars in 1893, their hedonistic, sexually open relationship, […]
Seven time Oscar nominee Glenn Close stars in this drama about the wife of a celebrated author, who finds herself questioning her life choices on the eve of his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. The film is an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s best-selling 2004 novel. The story, with its flashbacks of […]
The latest, presumably family-friendly movie from writer W. Bruce Cameron (A Dog’s Purpose) is the fictional tale of Bella, a dog who embarks on a preposterous 400 mile, two and a half year journey home after being separated from her family (Jonah Hauer-King and Ashley Judd) back in Denver. Bryce Dallas Howard is the voice […]
A fateful night of sexual discovery in a hotel room profoundly impacts the lives of two professional footballers in this adaptation of John Donnelly’s acclaimed London stage play. Told over the course of a decade, three hotel room vignettes reveal how choices made by each of the two young men alters the course of their […]
Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston star in this American remake of the extremely popular 2011 French film The Intouchables, based on the true story of an unemployed ex-con hired to take care of a billionaire who becomes a quadriplegic as a result of a paragliding accident. After a clumsy first half filled with contrived and highly […]