A pop star already in the throes of significant emotional trauma loses her grip on reality after she witnesses the extremely gruesome suicide of her drug dealer and starts experiencing disturbing hallucinations that she believes are being caused by a supernatural entity. Naomi Scott stars in this sequel to the 2022 psychological horror/thriller Smile. Scott […]
A mother and her twin sons live an isolated, survivalist life in the woods, convinced that the world has ended and that an evil entity will get them if they don’t each stay tethered to their dilapidated cabin by a rope when foraging for food. Trouble occurs when one of the young boys starts to […]
On December 26, 2004, the world’s deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century, a massive tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killed more than 227 thousand people in Indian Ocean coastal communities in 14 countries. This National Geographic documentary recaps the chronology of events […]
Two sisters navigate 20 formative years of their lives during summer visits with their loving but volatile father in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Puerto Rican rap singer/songwriter Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel and Emma Ramos star in this family drama. Writer/director Alessandra Lacorazza’s largely autobiographical film debut is both authentic and introspective. Her decision to […]
A single mother in London sends her young biracial son to the English countryside to take refuge from the Nazi German aerial blitzkrieg attacks of 1940. But when he flees the train taking him to safety, it leads him on an Iliad-type journey home. Saoirse Ronan and Elliot Heffernan star in this historical war drama. […]
Sixteen years after Maximus (Russell Crowe’s character in 2000’s Gladiator) is killed, his secretly exiled son Lucius is captured by the invading Roman Army and forced back to Rome to compete as a gladiator. Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen and Denzel Washington star in this historical adventure epic from director Ridley Scott, set in […]
Two students at a university in the mythical Land of Oz face a crossroads in their complicated friendship following an encounter with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star in this musical fantasy reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wicked: Part I is – […]
A British couple’s already rocky marriage quickly deteriorates after the husband becomes obsessed with a glamorous but controversial actress who is starring in a movie being filmed with their young daughter. Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif and Matilda Lutz star in this cat-and-mouse psychological thriller. On its surface, Magpie looks like any other run-of-the-mill melodrama about […]
A German emergency doctor on a sailing vacation from Gibraltar to Ascension Island off the Atlantic coast of northern Africa finds her idyllic journey upended, when she encounters a sinking fishing trawler overloaded with refugees. Suzanne Wolff stars in this 2018 adventure drama. Styx is the mythical river in Greek mythology that separates the living […]
A Mexico City corporate attorney frustrated with helping wealthy men literally get away with murder gets the opportunity of a lifetime when she is hired by the head of a notorious drug cartel. Her task – help fake the drug lord’s death and facilitate his transition to start a new life as a woman. Zoe […]