Fresh off the heels of his recent, hilarious appearance as host of Saturday Night Live (where he worked four years as a writer), comedian John Mulaney brings his successful stand up tour to Netflix, reflecting on ridiculous childhood school assemblies, annoying college requests for alumni donations, and he and his wife pushing their French Bulldog […]
Johnny is a lonely and miserable young sheep farmer living in relative isolation in starkly beautiful northern England, losing himself in alcohol and casual sex until he meets Gheorghe, a Romanian migrant worker hired by his family to help work the lambing season. When the two are forced to live together, Gheorghe awakens the emotionally […]
Charlize Theron reunites with director Jason Reitman (Young Adult) in this clever dramedy about a mother of three, rescued from overwhelming loneliness and post-partum depression when a lifesaving night nanny (Mackenzie Davis) arrives to help her take care of her newborn infant… and perhaps more importantly, her. While the ambitious, twist-filled ode to motherhood from […]
This is writer/director Luc Besson’s adaptation of the Franco-Belgian comic book about Valerian and Laureline, a couple of 28th century special operatives on a mission to the species-diverse metropolis of Alpha, where a dark force is threatening not only the city, but the entire universe. (Imagine a way larger, even more visually stunning Star Wars cantina.) […]
“Can I be me?” Nick Broomfield’s 2017 documentary states these were the words that pop superstar Whitney Houston frequently uttered out of frustration throughout her career, feeling she had no control over her life. Available on Showtime, the film skillfully weaves never before seen footage, including that from Houston’s final concert tour in 1999, with […]
Wow. Wow. Wow. This 19th film from Marvel has nearly all its pantheon of superheroes doing battle with evil villain Thanos (Josh Brolin), who’s on an Infinity Stone collecting binge, which, once completed, will enable him to destroy half of the universe. The Russo brothers directing duo crams a lot (and I mean A LOT) […]
One of India’s biggest blockbusters ever made is loosely based on Padmavat, a 16th-century Sufi poem about Alauddin Khilji, the sultan of Delhi, and his obsessive quest for the stunningly beautiful Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Sen of the northwestern kingdom of Chittor. It is an epic saga in which the queen leads the […]
This Netflix young adult dramedy is about four female besties spending their final weeks of high school smoking weed, hooking up, partying and hanging out, but with a catch. They are all deeply saddened by the tragic death the year before of a boy who was the big brother of one of the foursome and […]
This biographical documentary about 1950s movie heartthrob Tab Hunter is a fascinating glimpse at how a stunningly handsome young man became a huge star despite being gay in the socially conservative era of Hollywood’s big studios. Hunter’s own candid, upbeat, charming interviews, along with those with Connie Stevens, Robert Wagner, Debbie Reynolds, John Waters and […]
Amy Schumer tackles body image and self confidence in this romantic comedy about a regular gal at a cosmetics company who, after a head injury during spin class, is convinced she’s beautiful, and starts living her life with a newfound sense of confidence. The plot is pretty predictable and the jokes, some of which do […]