This crime thriller is about a group of professional criminals attempting to rob the treasury building in Gulfport, Alabama (huh?) during the largest hurricane in recorded history. Federal agent Casey (Taken‘s Maggie Grace) teams up with brothers Will (Kong: Skull Island‘s Toby Kebbell), a storm chasing meteorologist, and Breeze (True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten), a handyman, […]
Two years after his critically-acclaimed dramedy Tangerine, writer/director Sean Baker presents this unflinching portrait of the “hidden homeless,” poor people living at a dumpy, bedbug-infested motel on the outskirts of Orlando, Florida. The irony is that the children are gleefully unaware of the precariousness of their situation, creating their own Disney-like fantasy world in the […]
Sharon Stone is Senna, a middle-aged train wreck floundering in her career and in relationships in this sad, straight-to-video disaster posing as a romantic comedy. The film follows Senna on her birthday over several years in sort of a modern, single gal knockoff of the 1978 classic, Same Time, Next Year. Ellen Burstyn, who starred […]
This Amazon series from cosmopolitan.com is a compilation of sixteen 1-3 minute vignettes featuring fast-forwarded makeup transformations of current and former contestants from RuPaul’s Drag Race – among them: Alaska, Sasha Velour, Shangela, Courtney Act, Alyssa Edwards, Chi Chi DeVayne and Trixie Mattel. While there is a certain demystifying element to seeing how the ice […]
When their small, chartered plane crashes in a remote stretch of the Rocky Mountains, two strangers must summon personal courage to battle overwhelming odds against their survival. This adaptation of the 2011 novel by Charles Martin plays out like a ridiculous mash-up of the 1993 plane crash drama Alive and The Bridges of Madison County, […]
This is the story behind the inspiration for Winnie The Pooh, perhaps the most beloved children’s book of all time. When World War I veteran and playwright A.A. Milne moves his family to the English countryside, his son Christopher Robin’s stuffed animal collection inspires his famed novel, inadvertently turning the boy into an overnight celebrity […]
Ben Stiller is Brad, a frustrated, unsatisfied 47-year-old, obsessively comparing himself to his wealthier and more glamorous appearing college friends who, in his eyes, are vastly (and unfairly) more successful than him. Incapable of appreciating all that he has achieved, Brad instead jealously dwells on what he hasn’t, his insecurities bubbling to the surface during […]
This late 1800s period piece starring Judi Dench is loosely based on documents discovered in 2010 describing Queen Victoria’s previously undisclosed friendship with a young Indian man during the last years of her life – a friendship that apparently raised eyebrows among her family and close associates. The period costumes and set design offer an […]
Jason Bateman reunites with the writer/director duo behind 2011’s Horrible Bosses in this comedy about friends whose murder mystery game night turns into a wacky, real life kidnapping. The story is ridiculously bonkers and some of the jokes are eye-rollingly corny, but there are enough genuine belly laughs and clever moments to make it worth […]
Natalie Portman stars in this adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s trippy 2014 novel about a team of female soldier/scientists exploring The Shimmer – a mysterious, inexplainable, otherworldly occurrence gradually spreading in a remote swamp. The further into The Shimmer they trek, the more mind-blowing the physical and psychological horrors they encounter, as well as terrifying discoveries […]