Ikiru: A Warning Against Waste

Takashi Shimura. Photo: Toho Akira Kurosawa had a major international breakthrough with Rashomon in 1950, a historical drama. He then decided to make a film about life in Japan after…

Trigger Warning

A Special Forces commando (Jessica Alba) returns home to her small town only to realize that the death of her father happened because of the illegal activities of a senator’s…

Fast Charlie

In New Orleans, aging hitman Charlie Swift (Pierce Brosnan) is caring for his Alzheimer-stricken mob boss (James Caan) when he’s drawn into a feud with a younger mobster. A gangster…

Godzilla Minus One

After World War II, former kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) finds a family just as he’s drawn into a battle against Godzilla. Rarely has any of the 36 predecessors…

Living

London, 1953; a bureaucrat (Bill Nighy) learns that he will die of cancer and starts thinking of what he might achieve. A remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), made with…

The Enforcer

As Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) goes after a terrorist organization, he’s also saddled with a new partner, a woman (Tyne Daly) with no field experience. The third Dirty Harry thriller…

Anyone but You

During a trip to Sydney where they are guests at a wedding, Bea and Ben (Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell), who once hooked up and now loathe each other, find themselves…

The Arctic Convoy

In 1942, the crew of a Norwegian cargo ship that’s part of a convoy headed to Murmansk are forced to make tough decisions as they are targeted by German submarines…

Open Water

During a group scuba dive, Susan and Daniel (Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Kintner) suddenly learn that the others in the group are gone; the boat has left the site after the…

Under Paris

Ahead of a major triathlon to be held in the Seine, a marine researcher (Bérénice Bejo) realizes that a big, deadly shark has made its way into the river. On…