Movie about unhoused family

Asleep in My Palm

A thoughtful, often gripping, timely indie film that explores the lives of a father and his teenage daughter forced to live in a storage unit in Ohio, as their pasts and present present new challenges on the fringes of a wealthy college town. Starring Tim Blake Nelson and directed by his son Henry Nelson.

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Bob Marley: One Love

His music inspired peace movements and spread messages of unity across Africa. It also launched reggae as a genre around the world, and turned him into a symbol.  In 1999, the BBC declared “One Love” the song of the Millennium.  This is a film released in theaters to give people a combination of rousing concert

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Stormy Daniels Documentary expose scandal

Stormy

What is it like to wake up at the center of a tabloid scandal of presidential proportions? This Peacock doc takes viewers into the personal life and perspective of the woman who repeatedly became front page fodder during the Trump campaign and administration. “I would like to hope that even Stormy’s critics and enemies could

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Irish wish list

Irish Wish

Part Irish tourism campaign, part predictable romcom, an American 30-something (Lindsay Lohan) has to stifle her feelings when the love of her life gets engaged to her best-friend, and she’s forced to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Days before the pair are set to marry, she makes a spontaneous wish – likely

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Frida the documentary on amazon

Frida

A visually fascinating take on the documentary format that draws from the legendary artist’s work to animate her life story, as told from her own words as entries in her diaries, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews. From documentary editor (“RBG”) turned director Carla Gutierrez. 

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Netflix romcom art of love

Art of Love

A sleek, sexy Turkish heist romcom (with English subtitles) follows an Interpol officer who learns that the art thief she’s been hunting down is actually her ex-lover. Critics have ignored this one, but it’s aiming for the Lupin viewers who want a steamy date night film or a vicarious globe trotting adventure with terrific visual

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Jordanian woman fighting for her inheritance Inshallah Boy film

Inshallah Boy

After her husband passes suddenly, a Jordanian mother is expected to hand over the house to her brother-in-law, and resorts to faking a pregnancy to try and hold on to her inheritance and her daughter’s stability in this entertaining, fast-paced drama earning critical praise for its “look into women’s rights, morality, and normalized societal oppression

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wonka

Wonka

A fun, feel good, immersive version of Roald Dahl’s classic tells the story of how the charismatic inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the Willy Wonka of lore. Starring Timothy Chalamet and directed by Paddington‘s Paul King, the two-hour smorgasbord aims to appeal to everyone in the family, losing some of the eccentricities and darker edges

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Damsel

After being lured into marrying a prince, Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) discovers that her new royal family plans to sacrifice her to a dragon to pay an ancient family debt in this suspenseful dark fantasy drama that could be interpreted as a parable to a certain real life princess story. Angela Bassett, Ray Winstone, and

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HBO documentary Revolution on Canvas

A Revolution on Canvas

A gripping new documentary and timely history lesson that investigates the disappearance of more than 100 “treasonous” paintings the Iranian artist Nickzad Nodjoumi, whose daughter follows his attempts to reclaim his missing paintings as she retraces what he survived.

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