Shortly after ingesting a mysterious party drug, a young man’s planned evening of fun devolves into a chain reaction of chaos when he tries to help a hysterical bandaged woman while driving home. French writer/director David Moreau (Them) filmed his sci-fi horror/thriller in a single, continuous take. Within a few minutes, you can’t help but […]
An aspiring actress in 1978 Los Angeles comes face to face with a serial killer when she chooses him as the winner in an episode of the TV game show The Dating Game. Anna Kendrick stars in and directs this mystery/crime thriller loosely based on the shocking true crime story. The Dating Game aspect of […]
After it is stranded on a remote island inhabited only by animals, a futuristic robot seeking purpose becomes the mother to a newly orphaned baby goose. Lupita Nyong’o and Kit Connor voice this DreamWorks family sci-fi/animation based on Peter Brown’s 2016 novel about motherhood, self-sacrifice and living a life of purpose. First, let’s talk about […]
A swamp-filled lake along the Louisiana/Texas border is immersed in mystery when an eight-year-old girl vanishes there without a trace. As the saga unfolds, a link to another missing person case is revealed. Dylan O’Brien (Love and Monsters, The Maze Runner trilogy) and Eliza Scanlen (The Starling Girl, Sharp Objects) star in this sci-fi mystery/thriller. […]
A couple of 10-year-old best friends living in Chicago’s sprawling, crime-embattled Cabrini Green housing project in 1992 find their friendship tested when a life changing event occurs. Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez and Jurnee Smollett star in this nostalgic, coming-of-age drama. Just as she did in 2019’s Hala, about a Muslim teenager coping with […]
When a group of college friends vacationing in the New York’s Catskill Mountains find a box of ancient tarot cards in the basement of their spooky Airbnb, they unwittingly release a deadly demonic entity, in this supernatural horror/thriller loosely based on Nicholas Adams’s 1992 novel Horrorscope. Wow, what a schlocky, silly story. Spenser Cohen, part […]
A shy and impressionable Taiwanese-American 13-year-old in the San Francisco Bay Area finds himself on a painful journey of self-discovery during the summer of 2008, just before he is to start high school and his older sister is to leave home for college. Isaac Wang, Joan Chen and Shirley Chen star in this coming-of-age teen […]
A disillusioned hitman in 1974 Ireland comes out of retirement when IRA terrorists fleeing Belfast after a deadly bomb attack show up in his tiny village in County Donegal. Liam Neeson, Kerry Condon and Ciarán Hinds star in this period crime thriller. In the Land of Saints and Sinners plays out like a contemporary Western, […]
An author haunted by a childhood memory returns to his Maine hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot just as a mysterious figure also arrives, spawning a rapidly spreading vampire infestation. Lewis Pullman, Alfre Woodard and Makenzie Leigh (Gotham, The Assistant) star in this horror/thriller based on the 1975 Stephen King novel. Production wise, Salem’s Lot ticks the […]
After being struck by a car while backpacking through the English countryside, a mysterious young woman is taken to the driver’s family estate to recover from amnesia. There, she is haunted by individuals who look a lot like figures portrayed in a recently discovered church that was buried during the Black Death in the 1300s. Christina […]