The Grab is a documentary that delves deeply into the complex world of managing food and water resources in a time of overpopulation and scarcity, exposing the links between large private and public interests that are frequently concealed from the general public. Based on a seven-year investigation by Nate Halverson of The Center for Investigative…
Casual hookups and dating apps have become the new normal. However, Grace (Andrea Bang) has become an outcast due to her more traditional desire for her first time to be special and she remains a virgin at the age of 27. One hectic night, she meets professional hockey player Carter Stone and, when the two…
Caution: Some potential spoilers In The Menu, Hawthrone is one of the world?s most prestigious high-class ?fou-fou? restaurants on the planet, run by a world-class chef that demands perfection of his staff to an extreme as well as doing whatever he can to please the customers appetite. Margot and her boyfriend as well as many…
Directed by Nicholas Stoller,?Bros?is a rom-com and is based on a screenplay that he co-wrote with Billy Eichner, who also stars in the movie and serves as its executive producer. It is the fourth LGBT love comedy made by a significant legacy studio (Universal) and the second movie with an openly LGBT main cast. Billy…
Directed by Joseph Amenta, Soft (Previously announced in the festival as Pussy) is about three young classmates, Julien, Tony, and Otis, who are struggling with their sexual identities. However, unlike other coming of age stories, Soft revolves around a person discovering their homosexuality and their identity. Although, our three protagonists have a good sense of who they are and what…
Presumably the last two men on Earth, Ray and Billy (Sterling K. Brown as Ray and Mark Duplass) as Billy are trapped in a biosphere. Ray is a logical, innovative scientist and Billy is an emotionally-grounded Republican (and former president of the United States). This simple premise is all that we?re given as the film…
Directed by Kim Hongsun, Project Wolf Hunting begins as dozens of Korea?s most dangerous and infamous criminals are set to be shipped to a maximum-security prison in the Philippines, including the heir to one of their most dangerous gangs. Accompanied by two dozen armed policemen and detectives on a large freight ship, a plan to overtake the…
Set at the conclusion of the millennium,?V/H/S/99?is the fifth instalment in the?V/H/S?series and tells five new found-footage stories. Following the same format as the other?V/H/S?instalments, each story begins very grounded in tone, eventually evolving into supernatural mayhem and carnage.? In 99, all five stories are insanely horrific, with solid premises fueled by creative twists and turns…
In Zwigato, the very talented writer/director Nandita Das takes a crack at a social commentary drama that focuses the side-gig and gig economy industry. Starring famed Indian comedian Kapil Sharma as Manas, Zwigato looks at the nightmarish lives of workers for meal delivery apps such as UberEats, Postmates, DoorDash, etc. In Das? film, the fictional delivery company is…
Netflix?s?The Good Nurse?is based on the popular book by Charles Graeber, which recalls the true events that happened to Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) and Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne). Amy is a working, single mother of 2 in an absolutely horrible situation. In need of a heart transplant and working nights in the ICU to support…
