A surreal comedy about the iconic, surreal Salvador Dalí, the film follows a French journalist as she attempts to interview “Dalí” — who is portrayed by multiple actors in various over the top incarnations. There are dream sequences and tributes to the man’s work, and inventive sequences that defy explanation — but ensure that you
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 meditation on finding beauty in the ordinary and dignity in manual labor, Perfect Days serves as a lesson as well as a blueprint on how to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. It underscores the importance of finding solace in solitude and happiness from the simple act of living.
A thematic departure from the previous Poirot movies, A Haunting in Venice drops you into a Gothic post-war Italy and keeps you guessing in a film that non-horror fans can embrace.
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