Director Wes Anderson pulls out all his trademark quirky stops, and stop-motion animation, in this epic tale of a Japanese boy in search of his dog on Trash Island, the new home of Megasaki City’s exiled dog population after an outbreak of dog flu. Anderson is at his animated best, incorporating a cleverly-written ode to […]
This is the sequel to 2008’s The Strangers, the uber-creepy, intense home invasion horror film about masked killers inexplicably terrorizing a couple in their remote vacation home. This time the killers are terrorizing a vacationing family of four as they arrive at a curiously empty trailer park. Director Johannes Roberts (The Other Side of the […]
Sam Elliott stars in this sweet film as an aging, iconic Western film star facing his own mortality after being diagnosed with cancer. Director and co-writer Brett Haley crafts a relatable, realistic portrait of a man motivated by the prospect of death to start living – to repair strained relationships with his ex-wife (Katherine Ross) […]
Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) writes and directs this adaptation of TJ Palacio’s inspirational story about Auggie Pullman, a young boy with facial deformities trying to navigate his first year of middle school after years of homeschooling. The twist here is that the story isn’t just about Auggie – it’s also told […]
Director Alison Klayman looks at how the amphetamine industry has reached its current $13 billion a year epidemic, tracing the history and effects of stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin as performance enhancers, and how societal pressures to succeed have contributed to the sanctioned abuse of this low dose variation of crystal meth. The film contains […]
Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina) stars in this reboot of the popular Lara Croft action-adventure franchise, heading to a remote Japanese island after her eccentric billionaire father goes missing while searching for the tomb of an ancient sorceress. Director Roar Uthaug, on the heels of his successful 2016 Norwegian tsunami disaster […]
When Simon discovers there is a fellow closeted gay student at his high school, the two strike up an anonymous online relationship, sending Simon on a journey to discover the identity of his new pen pal, and incidentally, sparking his own terrifying, exciting journey of self discovery. Nick Robinson (Jurassic World and Everything, Everything) is […]
This is an extremely timely dark comedy/drama about obsession – the obsession of an emotionally disturbed woman (Aubrey Plaza) who moves to Los Angeles to stalk and befriend an Instagram star (Elizabeth Olsen), whom is obsessed with her own social media image. Director Matt Spicer and Plaza deftly straddle the line between humor and uncomfortable, […]
When Russian prima ballerina Dominika (Jennifer Lawrence) sustains a career-ending leg injury, her spymaster uncle signs her up for Sparrow school, where the more attractive Russian spies learn the art of seduction, or as Dominika calls it, whore school. From there, she is sent to seduce a CIA agent (Joel Edgerton) to learn the identity […]
Patricia Dombrowski’s life freakin’ sucks – she’s an extremely overweight, cash-strapped working class white girl stuck in a series of dead end jobs, living with her deadbeat mom and dying Nana (Cathy Moriarty) in a rundown town in New Jersey. And she wants to be a rap singer despite being surrounded by naysayers who don’t […]