My Animal tells the story of Heather (Bobbi Salvor Menuez), a teenage girl who yearns to play for her local hockey team. However, in this male-dominated town, she is kept at bay simply because she ‘isn’t a boy’. Things begin to change for Heather though when she...
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster begins with the story of Minato (Soya Kurokawa), a young man who lives with his mother. Having lost his father as a young child, Minato begins behaving oddly, claiming that his brain has been switched with a pig....
Directed by Todd Haynes, May December tells the story of Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman), an actress tasked with researching the subject of her next film. For her latest role, Elizabeth has been tasked with bringing Gracie Atherton (Julianne Moore) to life...
It’s been a long time since we’ve unleashed Woo with the box office. For many years, John Woo was action’s greatest hero. Known for his penchant for bullets, blood (and doves), the director has a certain sense of pageantry about his films that have always made him...
In some ways, it’s hard to believe that Eddie Murphy has never made a holiday film. One of comedy’s greatest icons, one would expect that some form of holiday hijinx would exist in his repertoire. (Even Arnold Schwarzenegger has Jingle All the Way on...
Written and directed by Liz Whitmere, Cold is a powerful film that uses frigid temperatures to speak into the loneliest aspects of mental health. Although the concept seems almost otherworldly, Whitmere keeps the film grounded. Backed by powerful performances by...
Can a song save your life? La Sombra del Sol (The Shadow of the Sun) tells the story of Leo (Carlos Manuel Gonzalez), a hard-working, blue-collar man who’s struggling to keep his family afloat financially. However, things begin to change when he encounters his younger...
Set 64 years before Katniss volunteered as tribute, THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES follows Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) as a young man who does everything in his power to keep his mentee, Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), alive in the 10th annual...
Set in the cold New England winter, The Holdovers follows Paul Hunnam (Paul Giamatti), a grumpy professor who is forced to remain on campus during the Christmas break to supervise the students who remain over the holidays. Locked away in a school with few support...