Directors Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country For Old Men, True Grit) have crafted a love letter to the Western genre in this Netflix original film featuring six vignettes about 19th century life on the American frontier. The film has everything Western fans could hope for – stunningly sumptuous scenic vistas, a nostalgic score, […]
When a group of robbers are killed in a failed heist, their widows decide to work together on a subsequent heist to pay off a crooked Chicago politician and secure their own freedom. That is the gist behind this ridiculously convoluted, twist-filled screenplay co-written by Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and author […]
“The Negro Motorist Green Book” was an annual travel guide for black Americans from the 1930s through the mid 1960s, informing them of establishments where they were welcomed in the segregationist Deep South. When world class pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) decides to tour the region in 1962, he hires a street smart, working class […]
This Brazilian animated Netflix comedy series is about three gay co-workers at a department store that lead double lives as crime-fighting, LGBTQ-protecting, superhero drag queens – imagine an adult mashup of Powerpuff Girls and RuPaul’s Drag Race. While the concept is a cute one (the English language dub even features the voices of RPDR alums Trixie Mattel, Shangela, […]
Oh look! It’s another genre mashup from producer JJ Abrams (Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Super 8)! This time we get an intense, action-packed, WWII war drama wrapped inside zombie horror, when American paratroopers on a D-Day eve mission in German-occupied France discover a lab where Nazis are creating a super race of super strong, zombie […]
Chris Pine stars in this Netflix original film about Robert the Bruce, who, after fleeing in exile, organized a band of outlaws to fight the vastly larger English army via guerrilla warfare and became the first King of the Scots in 1306 until his death in 1329 at the age of 54. The mostly factually-accurate […]
When Jared, the teenage son of a Baptist minister in Arkansas, is outed as gay, his ultra-religious parents ship him off to a controversial, church-supported gay conversion camp. Once there, he begins a journey of emotional torture, and ultimately (and ironically), self discovery. In his adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir, director Joel Edgerton (Loving, It […]
In May 2008, the body of a woman, dead for several months, was discovered in an abandoned farmhouse in New Hampshire. Next to it was a journal she had kept, documenting the last four months of her life there, where she lived without running water or electricity, eating apples from a nearby tree and drinking […]
Julia Roberts stars in this Amazon series based on a popular podcast about a former therapist who discovers her job to treat American soldiers with PTSD and help them reacclimate to civilian life may not have been what she thought it was. Told in a series of flashbacks (with the present day in a different screen […]