In the mid-1990s, awkward seventh grader Owen (Justice Smith) meets ninth-grader Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) at an afterschool event. Maddy is reading a guide for the popular teen show The Pink Opaque. While Owen hasn’t seen the show, he’s intrigued by a commercial he saw on television. Maddy invites him over to watch an episode. The […]
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Alex Garland’s Civil War takes place in a dystopian version of the United States, where the states of California and Texas band together against the corrupt government. This second civil war has put the entire nation in turmoil. As the fall of the capitol is evident, journalists Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and Joel (Wagner Moura) plan
Astrophysicist Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng/Rosalind Chao) sends a message into space from a remote base during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Years later, there’s a response: reply, and they’ll come and destroy Earth. After all of the destruction Ye Wenjie has witnessed, she invites them to come because Earth cannot save itself. In the present
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Peacock’s second season of Dr. Death features the medical misdeeds of the Swiss-Italian doctor Paolo Macchiarini (Edgar Ramirez). Macchiarini, an internationally famous surgeon at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, has created a miracle: a stem-cell-soaked, 3D-printed trachea that can be implanted and magically become one with the patient. Benita Alexander (Mandy Moore), a journalist at
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The Goldfinger follows the rise and fall of Henry Ching (Tony Leung), who started as an immigrant moving to Hong Kong to find work and became the head of a large corporation in the 1970s and 1980s. When Ching cannot find work as an engineer, a property developer employs him to pose as an affluent
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Sports biopic The Iron Claw is based on the Von Erich wrestling family from Texas. Patriarch Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany) failed to obtain the mantle of World Heavyweight Champion during his wrestling career, and now it falls to one of his many sons to obtain it. In 1979, Kevin (Zac Efron) becomes the Texas
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In the last days of World War II, kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) lands on Odo Island, seeking repairs for his plane. After a full inspection, Tachibana (Munetaka Aoki), the head mechanic, figures out Shikishima landed on Odo Island to avoid fulfilling his duties as a kamikaze pilot. That same evening, Godzilla goes on
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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
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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
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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),
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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
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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.
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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
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