This low budget Australian shark thriller is loosely based on a 1983 true story, about a group of friends whose boat is damaged and capsizes while sailing through a coral reef to Indonesia. With their boat doomed to soon sink, they begin a daunting 12 mile swim to the nearest island. During their journey, they […]
Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike star in this 1980s period spy thriller about a former agent asked by the CIA to go back to Beirut to negotiate for the release of his captured friend and colleague a decade after his own wife was killed there. Although there is a certain predictable spy clichéness to the […]
Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer star in this Netflix original dramedy about a smart-phone addicted, workaholic bride-to-be who, after being epically dumped at the alter on her wedding day, ends up going on her non-refundable honeymoon cruise anyway – with her estranged father. As expected, after a few initial tense days at sea, the two […]
This documentary is the astounding true story about three young men, who in 1980, at the age of 19, discovered they were triplets who were separated at birth and adopted by other families. At the time the story made global headlines as an enthralled public was fascinated at the similarities among the men, even scoring […]
In this fourth collaboration between director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg, a U.S. paramilitary team is tasked with extracting a strategic asset from a Southeast Asian country past a gauntlet of military, police and street gangs. Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead) and former MMA fighter Ronda Rousey do a fine job rounding out the elite […]
When Rachel (Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu) agrees to travel from New York to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) for his best friend’s wedding, she makes a shocking discovery – Nick is from an astoundingly wealthy family, making him the most eligible bachelor in Asia, and her, the target of every woman, especially […]
When four teenage girls in a small town in Massachusetts start researching the spooky faceless internet urban legend the “Slender Man” (apparently some demonic taker of children in the woods?), they watch a video (reminiscent of 2002’s The Ring) which summons him into their world. Then they decide to head to the forest! A lot! There […]
This Spike Lee film is loosely based on Ron Stallworth’s 2014 memoir about being the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department in the 1970s, where he ended up working with a white colleague to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and oddly enough, even met its national leader, David Duke, as Duke was […]
Dr. Cara Harding (Julianne Moore) is a Pittsburgh-based forensic psychiatrist who makes a career out of debunking criminal defendants who claim to have Multiple Personality Disorder. But when her psychiatrist father introduces her to a troubled patient (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who adopts the physical characteristics and possesses detailed knowledge of each of his multiple personalities, […]
Jason Statham stars in this giant shark thriller as the leader of a deep sea team trying to rescue fellow divers (among them, his ex-wife – how convenient!), trapped in a submersible in the Mariana Trench, where, years before, he had encountered the long-believed extinct, Megalodon. When “The Meg” follows them back from the trench, […]