Ridley Scott’s biopic Napoleon attempts to tell the story of Napoleon Bonaparte’s (Joaquin Phoenix) storied life. Napoleon rises to fame in France during the revolution and meets his love, Josephine (Vanessa Kirby). Josphine profoundly impacts his life and supports him through his eventual ascension as Emperor of France. The film speed runs through several years of …
Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins is a fictional retelling of the American Samoa football team’s quest to score at least one goal in the World Cup qualifiers. Years after a humiliating defeat to Australia 31 – 0, Tavita (Oscar Knight), the President of the Football Federation of American Samoa, posts an ad for the head …
The Fall of the House of Usher, Mike Flanagan’s most recent Netflix project, is based on a collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe. The Usher family, headed up by twins Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) and Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell), own a large pharmaceutical company called Fortunato that makes a boatload of money from a …
Dumb Money, based on the book, “The Antisocial Network” dramatizes the GameStop saga of 2020/2021, where r/WallStreetBets users, a group of retail investors, or “dumb money”, drive the price of the stock up to an excessive amount, causing a Wall Street meltdown. The film follows three distinct points of view – Keith Gill (Paul Dano), …
Milton (Ben Kingsley) lives a monotonous, quiet life in a small town in rural Pennsylvania. He goes about his typical routine, watching the same television shows every evening, taking care of his garden, attending council meetings, and repeatedly calling his daughter, Denise (Zoe Winters). One evening, a UFO crashes into his garden, and no one …
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem introduces a new iteration of the Ninja Turtles. Splinter (Jackie Chan) has hidden the Turtle Bros from the world, hoping to shelter them from cruel humans. However, Leonardo (Nicolas Cantu), Donatello (Micah Abbey), Raphael (Brady Noon), and Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr) want to be normal teenagers and do teenage …
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Celine Song’s Past Lives follows the relationship between two childhood friends, Na Young/Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo). As classmates, they compete for top marks in school and walk home together every day. This changes when Na Young’s family immigrates to Canada. Twelve years later, Na Young, now Nora, hunts Facebook for former …
After losing her car and about to lose her childhood home, Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) comes across an ad on Craigslist that could help solve her money issues. Rich, helicopter parents (Allison Becker & Matthew Broderick) want someone to date their 19-year-old son Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) before college, and as payment they’re offering a Buick. …
Who dies first in a horror film if all the characters are black? Morgan (Yvonne Orji) and Shawn (Jay Pharoah) are preparing for a reunion after ten years with all their college friends for Juneteenth in a creepy cabin house in the woods when they stumble upon a strange game room as they decorate and prepare for the …
After toxic air pollution turns Korea into a desert wasteland, only 1 percent of the population survives. Using social status, the remaining citizens are segregated into separate living districts. Thirty years after the disaster, in 2071, people wear respirators to go outdoors and rely on deliverymen, or “knights,” to protect and deliver daily necessities like …
Forced underground following the events of the third film, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) plans his revenge against the High Table. In return, a newly introduced member of the High Table, Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård), is given full reign to do whatever is necessary to bring down Wick and his first stop is to …
After a public misstep, the haughty daughter of a chaebol family, Won Mi-ho (Lee Da-hee), is banished to Jeju Island by her father to reflect on her actions and teach at a high school. Mi-ho is only accompanied by Butler Chang (Oh Kwang-rok), whom Mi-ho is closer to than anyone else in her family. Little …
Sixty-five million years ago, Mills (Adam Driver) took a job as the pilot on a two-year-long exploratory mission so he could afford to pay for his daughter’s medical treatments. While on this mission, Mills’ ship runs into an uncharted asteroid belt, causing the ship to crash onto Earth, leaving Mills and a young passenger, Koa …
Set in late 1930s Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of heiress Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger), named Nico Peterson (Francois Arnaud). While on the job, Marlowe is pulled into a web of lies involving Clare’s mother, screen actress Dorothy Quincannon (Jessica Lange), club manager Floyd Hanson (Danny …
The Wandering Earth 2 is a Chinese science fiction action film based on a short story by Liu Cixin. The sun is quickly expanding and will eventually consume Earth within a century. All nations band together under the United Earth Government (UEG); the Moving Mountain Project in order to build engines that will propel Earth …
Hulu/Disney+ miniseries, Welcome to Chippendales is a semi-biographical drama about the origin of Chippendales, and its founder, Somen “Steve” Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani). The series starts in the 1970s where Indian immigrant Banerjee aspires to become a successful businessman and idolises people like Hugh Hefner. He tries various club ideas and meets Club Promoter Paul Snider …
