The Whale: Weight of a Lived Life

Brendan Fraser. Photo: A24 In 2006, Brendan Fraser was still at the beginning of his downfall as a movie star, a phase where he couldn’t find many good parts. There…

Silver Haze

Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight’s last film together, Dirty God (2019), was certainly a personal project, but this one may be even more so, as Knight plays a version of…

Highlander

1985, New York City; Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), who found out back in 1536 that he’s immortal and was trained by a Spanish swordsman (Sean Connery), faces a dangerous enemy…

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

A spin-off to the Mad Max franchise that also serves as a prequel to Fury Road (2015), tracking the fierce Furiosa’s upbringing and how she as a child first came…

Emily the Criminal

A young woman (Aubrey Plaza) in Los Angeles is deep in debt and gets drawn into a credit-card fraud ring and a relationship with one of its leading figures (Theo…

Atlas

In the future, an analyst (Jennifer Lopez) has personal reasons to track down a fugitive AI terrorist (Simu Liu); when things go awry during a military mission, she has to…

Two Moon Junction

A Southern belle (Sherilyn Fenn) is getting married to a dull businessman when she falls hard for a drifter (Richard Tyson) who’s working for a carnival. After co-writing the successful…

Magnum Force

When several criminals, including a prominent mobster, are murdered, Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) begins to suspect a cover-up. The sequel to Dirty Harry (1971) provides a bit of irony, considering…

Umberto D: Life in Ruins in a City of Ruins

Carlo Battisti. Photo: Dear Film As in the case of Bicycle Thieves (1948), Vittorio De Sica would be criticized for Umberto D. by people who hated how he portrayed their…

Ice Cold in Alex

In 1941, a group of British soldiers and nurses try to cross a North African desert in an ambulance, welcoming a South African officer (Anthony Quayle) who may have ulterior…