This six episode Netflix docu-series details the national media circus that erupted when the Rolls Royce loving, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a controversial religious guru from India led thousands of his followers to remote northern Oregon in 1981 to form a commune. Escalating tensions, accusations of wild sex orgies, legal challenges, an assassination plot, and the […]
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in this adaptation of Michael Zadoorian’s 2009 novel about an aging couple, one in the final stages of cancer, the other with Alzheimer’s Disease, setting out from Massachusetts to Key West in their vintage RV for what will likely be the final vacation of their lives. Writer/Director Paolo Virzi […]
Dwayne Johnson reunites a third time with director Brad Peyton (San Andreas and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) in this film adaptation of the popular 80s video game. The premise – Johnson and a geneticist (Naomie Harris) must stop a trio of genetically-mutated animals that have evolved into giant, angry, skyscraper-bashing monsters set on destroying […]
This Netflix reboot of Irwin Allen’s popular late 1960s sci-fi TV series is about a family of Alpha Centauri-bound space colonists who, in the year 2048, crash land on a strange, alien planet filled with unexpected dangers. (Yes, we do hear the famous catch phrase, “Danger, Will Robinson!”) The series has some impressive visual effects, […]
CNN’s six part documentary series is a fascinating, thorough look at the biggest family name in American politics – a family that has had about as many movies and television programs made about them as there are Kennedys – and there are a lot. Where this one differs, and in many ways is better, is […]
This biopic traces one of the more uncomfortable, defining moments in U.S. political history – Senator Ted Kennedy’s infamous 1969 car accident that killed his passenger, the very bright campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne – and with it, his all-but-certain chances of becoming a future president. Director John Curran, a longtime Kennedy supporter, does not […]
Netflix’s first original Hindi-language film is a rom/com set in Mumbai, where cash-strapped co-workers Sanjay and Karina agree to get married to qualify for a home loan in the housing-scarce city. As expected, romance blossoms but complications arise as they must deal with prior, fading relationships and families with different religious backgrounds. The charisma of […]
A dwindling, rag-tag group of survivors in remote Northern Quebec band together to fend off the zombie apocalypse in this Netflix horror film. Writer/director Robin Aubert does some things quite well – a great setting, a realistic sense of dread, creating characters the viewer will care about and injecting the film with a sense of […]
Real life spouses John Krasinski and Emily Blunt team up in this horror film about a family under fire as an alien invasion has decimated the planet’s population, tracking their human prey solely by sound. The family communicates via sign language, using their wits to survive. While the story itself isn’t new – it’s a hybrid […]
When a trio of overprotective parents discover their teenage daughters have made a pact to lose their virginity on prom night, they decide to intervene – at all costs. Such is the premise of this off the walls comedy from the brother writing duo of Jim and Brian Kehoe. Leslie Mann, John Cena and Ike […]