A long-awaited biopic starring Kate Winslet as the unlikely WWII photographer Lee Miller, who shot some of the first images of the Blitz and concentration camps before being told women were not allowed to accompany troopers. She was left to capture the powerful, lesser known images and stories from some of the war before staging
The dramatized true story about an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who becomes a contestant on The Dating Game — paired up with a man who turns out to be a serial killer. Directed by and starring Anna Kendrick, it’s an original take on a chilling story told in a taut and captivating way,
A stirring, intimate documentary that reveals the lesser known story about one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story brought our writer to tears. As Felipe Patterson describes it, it’s a story that manages to be inspiring and heartbreaking, and “a testament to the human capacity to overcome the insurmountable.” Read his
Laura Dern plays a newly single novelist struck with writer’s block who heads to a retreat in Morocco hoping for a cure, and as you can guess, she finds one in the handsome young stranger (Liam Hemsworth) who throws her for a few loops in this Netflix romance that has all the ingredients of a
A post-election escape watch from Jon Stewart, the 2020 political satire works as an entertaining crash course on local campaign organizing while doubling as an expose on the dysfunctions of the “election economy.”
If you like your horror more on the clever high-concept side with some social media satire thrown in, add this Netflix bundle of surprises to your watchlist. It’s about a group of old college friends who reunite at a party at an estate before one of them gets married, and end up playing a body-swapping
Thought it revolves around a serial killer and a one-night-stand and pays tribute to grisly 35mm horror-thrillers, Strange Darling has received high praise from a few top critics for its ingenious storytelling. If you’re up for this kind of thing, all advice is to go in blind. And avoid this one for date night! But
Set in the 1930s Oklahoma dust bowl, a housewife grieving the loss of a child becomes convinced of a sinister presence in this psychological thriller starring Sarah Paulson, who departs from her American Horror Story character in a more grounded historical drama. From Nick Schrager at the Daily Beast: “In a genre overly taken as
Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot is a transfixing new DreamWorks film about a shipwrecked robot who has to make friends with the locals (animals) and adopt an orphan (gosling). An all-star voice ensemble (Mark Hamill, Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal ++), a dazzling world, a stirring score and a story about
Set in Navajo country, Rez Ball tells the rousing true story of a high school basketball team living on the margins that must rise up after a tragedy, and while the story of an underdog sports team sounds familiar, this one delivers a fresh world, a deeper layer, and an ending that earns its place