A routine ride on a South Korean bullet train turns into a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride when a nationwide zombie apocalypse breaks out and spreads onto the train as it races to the port city of Busan. While the zombies’ motor skills and infection speed vary wildly from scene to scene, and the uninfected villain […]
Anna Kendrick decides to proceed with plans to attend her oldest friend’s wedding after her boyfriend (the bride’s brother and best man) dumps her, forcing her out as the maid of honor in the process. There is just one problem – she is now relegated to the table of misfits in the back of the […]
Australian outback drama takes center stage in this odd, dark comedy directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, half of the duo responsible for the 1995 mega-hit Muriel’s Wedding. The film stars Kate Winslet as a Parisian haute couture designer who returns to her tiny outback town to reunite with her estranged mom (Judy Davis), rekindle a romance […]
When a New Zealand journalist stumbles across a fetish website that features tickling videos, he decides to make what presumably will be a funny, quirky documentary. Instead, he inadvertently awakens a vicious internet bully and a bizarre story of threats, harassment and public humiliation. Despite the documentary’s amateurish feel, it is a surreal and stomach-churning […]
Given its crazy stranger-than-fiction true story and all star line-up of Zach Galafianakis, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon and Owen Wilson, this comedy, based on the famous 1997 $17 million robbery of a Loomis Fargo armored truck facility near Charlotte, North Carolina, should have been box office gold. Instead, it is a series of […]
Netflix’s first Oscar win, in 2017 for Best Documentary Short, profiles three members of Syria’s courageous 2900-member White Helmets team, a civilian volunteer group that rescues residents trapped in rebel-held residential neighborhoods from Russian and Syrian government-led air strikes. The 40 minute film is an important one, highlighting the horrific humanitarian crisis that continues to […]
Denzel Washington produces, directs and stars in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning story about a Pittsburgh garbage collector, bitter that his fame as a baseball player in his athletic heyday was limited to the Negro Leagues, at a time when black players were not allowed in the major leagues. The […]
Comedian Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is about a young black man headed to a “meet the parents” weekend getaway with his white girlfriend. This crazy comedy/horror hybrid borrows heavily from such films as Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, The Stepford Wives, Rosemary’s Baby and The Skeleton Key, and while the film is a bit too […]
This Netflix original series goes behind the scenes of the world’s most famous monarchy, the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II. The Golden Globe winning brainchild of Peter Morgan, on the heels of his popular 2006 film The Queen, stars Claire Foy, who also recently won a Golden Globe for her spot-on portrayal of The Queen […]
Over the course of his illustrious career, filmmaker James L. Brooks has brought us such relationship-oriented classics as Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and Jerry Maguire. His latest, from writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig, stars Hailee Steinfeld as a wonderfully awkward teenager making the transition from child to young woman, while coping with the death of […]