Joseph Jackson (Colman Domingo), a steel worker in Gary, Indiana had dreams of grander and to achieve those dreams, he platformed his five sons as a pop act, The Jackson 5, with youngest son Michael (Juliano Valdi) as the lead vocalist. They sign a deal with Motown in 1969, move to California, and with national…
Author: Jeff Schaefer
Normal
In the small, snowy town of Normal, Minnesota, the residents – what few remain – are in mourning for the loss of their beloved Sherriff Gunderston (Pat Harris). Appointed by Mayor Kibner (Henry Winkler), Interim Sheriff Ulysses (Bob Odenkirk) plans to simply keep the peace in the eight weeks before the town can hold their…
The Drama
Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson) are making the final arrangements for their wedding. Indulging a little too much on the wine options at the venue, they sit with the best man and bridesmaid, Mike (Mamoudou Athie) and Rachel (Alana Haim), respectively. To help break the pre-wedding nerves, Rachel suggests that they tell each other what the worst thing they have ever done…
Project Hail Mary
The sun is dying. It is slowly being consumed by Astrophage, an algae that travels along the Petrova Line from the sun to Venus. It is a phenomenon observed across various galaxies in various solar systems. Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) assembles a worldwide team of experts to help understand and combat this slow death sentence with Project Hail Mary, a manned space mission to collect samples and send them back…
The Bride!
In 1818, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) penned “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” a story of a reanimated corpse she conceived of while spending a summer forced indoors on the banks of Lake Geneva in the Swiss Alps. In 1936, Chicago, Ida (also Jessie Buckley) falls out of favor with the mob that runs the city…
Scream 7
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has moved from Woodsboro to a similarly blustery and eternally autumnal town, Pine Grove, Indiana, where she married police officer Mark Evans (Joel McHale) and together they raise their teenage daughter, Tatum (Isabel May). Content to leave her association with the Stab murders behind her, fate has other plans for the serial…
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
On a nondescript night in Los Angeles, in the near future, 40 or so odd people gather, each with their own reasons, to grab a bite to eat at a local haunt. While dining, a man (Sam Rockwell), dressed in a clear plastic poncho with wires crisscrossing his entire body and claiming to be from the future, enters the restaurant and asks…
“Wuthering Heights”
In the late 1700s, in the Yorkshire Moors, young Cathy (Charlotte Mellington) lives with her alcoholic father (Martin Clunes). When he brings a young orphan boy home from the streets to live with them, Cathy is delighted to have a new friend and brother (read: “pet”) whom she names Heathcliff (Owen Cooper). The pair grow up together (Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi), and despite years of flirting with romance, Cathy…
Dracula
After successfully pushing back the Ottoman army, Prince Vladimir of Wallachia (Caleb Landry Jones) is alerted of a ruffian force that has ambushed his wife, Elisabeta (Zoë Bleu), and her detail on her journey to safety away from the war. Enraged that God would take his wife from him while he fought in a crusade…
The Marquee Topic 