Saoirse Ronan stars in this biopic about Mary Stuart, first the infant Queen of Scotland, then teen Queen of France, who, in 1561, returned home to Scotland as an 18-year-old widow to reclaim her throne, in defiance of England’s Queen Elizabeth I, whose Protestant rule had since spread to Scotland. Except for its climatic meeting […]
Netflix‘s pulse-pounding, BBC-produced, political conspiracy thriller is about an Afghanistan war veteran-turned-bodyguard assigned to protect the British Home Secretary, whose hawkish, conservative politics has made her both a political and physical target by opponents. Richard Madden (the pure-hearted Robb Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones) is mesmerizing as the dashingly handsome badass who is a magnet […]
Tina (Eva Melander) is a lonely, profoundly unattractive customs officer who has an uncanny ability to literally sniff out criminal behavior in passengers entering the remote seaport where she works in Sweden. Isolated due to a lifetime of bullying, Tina spends her free time connecting with nature by roaming the forest barefoot near her home, […]
When plus-sized, small town Texan Willowdean Dickson decides to enter her prissy mother’s Miss Teen Bluebonnet Pageant in protest, she inadvertently inspires some other schoolmates to sign up as unconventional contestants as well. Such is the premise behind this winsome mother-daughter Netflix dramedy starring Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$) and Jennifer Aniston. Macdonald exudes heaps of […]
Season Two of the wildly-popular, award-winning Amazon comedy series has Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and her scrappy manager Susie (Alex Borstein) juggling more comedy gigs and a road tour with an unexpected family trip to Paris and the family’s annual summer vacation in the Catskills, as Midge finds herself straddling her old life of privilege, with […]
This early 18th century period satire is a lampoon of England’s Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), portrayed as a petulant, self-absorbed dullard more obsessed with eating cake and raising rabbits than winning her nation’s war with France. When the impoverished cousin (Emma Stone) of the Queen’s closest confidante (Rachel Weisz) shows up seeking a job, a […]
When 16-year-old Margot Kim (Michelle La) mysteriously disappears from her home in San Jose, California, her father (John Cho) starts delving into her online history to assist the detective (Debra Messing) working the case, and along the way, finds out he doesn’t really know his daughter well at all. This feature film debut from Indian-American writer/director […]
When Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) decide to become foster parents to three siblings, they find themselves quickly overwhelmed as their little hellraisers force them to adjust to new lives together. This dramedy, based on writer/director Sean Anders (Daddy’s Home) and his wife’s own experiences as adoptive parents, has all the expected corny […]
JK Rowling’s second installment in her Wizarding World, pre-Harry Potter spinoff franchise has wizard/magical critter wrangler Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) working with a younger Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) to thwart Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) in his efforts to start a rebellion by the pure-blood wizards over all Muggles (those of us lacking magic powers). The […]
The crew from Disney’s 2012 animated comedy Wreck–It Ralph is back, with Ralph (John C. Reilly) and his race car driving bestie Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) taking to the internet to make money for a new steering wheel for Vanellope’s broken Sugar Rush arcade game – and learning about the importance of friendship in the process. This sequel […]