In Cherry (2021), Tom Holland plays a sweet young kid whose life changes after serving as a army medic. Severely affected by post traumatic stress after his return from the war, he starts hearing a voice in his head. Despite having love from a caring girlfriend in Emily (Ciara Bravo), Cherry turns to drugs to…
Starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek, Bliss is a sci-fi romance that toggles you between two worlds. Isabel Clemens (Hayek) convinces Greg Wittle (Owen) that the polluted and cruel world is nothing but a computer simulation. The real world, according to her, is one that is beautiful. As Greg explores the world he didn’t or…
In Body Brokers, Utah (Jack Kilmer) joins a substance abuse rehab center. While there, he learns how addiction rehab is a multi-billion scam industry. He then gets in on it. Rehab centers recruit addicts to get more addicts. More addicts gets them more government money. They use some of that money to pay off addicts…
The Mauritanian is as controversial as a movie can get. In it, Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) defends Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim), the alleged operations mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks. Whether or not you agreed with the defense of Ould Slahi, you would have surely appreciated the tense drama carefully orchestrated in the movie’s…
Judas and the Black Messiah is one powerful movie. Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) is on the ascendancy as Chairman of the Black Panthers. The government deploys a double agent in William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) to take down Fred and the Black Panthers from the inside. But, O’Neal is conflicted. The movie is full of intrigue…
In The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, a teen couple live the same day over and over again. They use the time loop as an opportunity to identify everything that is perfect about the day. It is a sweet movie about love, romance, humor, empathy and friendship. Though the movie gets off to a rather…
In Fear of Rain, teenager Rain Burroughs struggles with Schizophrenia. She hears voices, sees images and feels emotions, not knowing which of them are true. But, when she begins to hear cries from the neighbor’s attic, she decides to do something about it, come schizophrenia or not. To help her, she recruits an awkward boy…
In Land, Robin Wright from House of Cards fame plays a bereaved woman named Edee. To get away from it all, Edee embraces life in a cabin, in Wyoming’s wilderness. But, her new life presents its own challenges in finding survival skills against a marauding bear and a struggle with loneliness. Chance companionship, grit and…
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is about two middle aged Midwestern women who have never been ANYWHERE going to Florida to let loose on a vacation. What ensues is adventure, fun and love. Along the way, they get entangled in the plans of an evil villain who wants to kill everyone in…
In Minari, an immigrant Korean family tries to make rural Arkansas its home, in the 1980’s. In doing so, this poignantly made American-Korean drama draws you into a myriad of emotions. An adorable relationship between a grandson and grand mother. A steadfast father trying to achieve the American Dream against all odds. A mother providing…