I Love Lucy is one of the foundational American TV sitcoms running for 180 half-hour episodes. The show starred Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) as Lucy and Ricky. When news breaks that Ball was a registered communist, the future of the pioneering show was jeopardized. Being the Ricardos follows the drama behind the scenes…
Category: Contemporary
Spiderman: No Way Home
With his identity as Spiderman revealed to the world, Peter Parker’s (Tom Holland) life becomes increasingly complicated as seemingly for every Spidey-supporter there are at least two detractors calling for his demise. He soon realizes that this stigma is infecting those he holds dear – MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon). In an attempt to give them some…
Nightmare Alley
Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) is set adrift in the world without much of a purpose until he stumbles into employment at Clem Hoatley’s (Willem Dafoe) freaks and geeks carnival. There, he begins to apprentice for a mentalism act, Zeena the Seer (Toni Collette) and her husband Pete (David Strathairn). As his skills as a performer grow, so…
West Side Story
The Jets and the Sharks. Two rival gangs, one Polish and the other Puerto Rican, rule the streets of New York City. They are rivals to each other but with a shared enemy of the state and new white money looking to push them out of their homes and jobs. Amidst the looming threat of inevitable evection, Tony…
C’mon C’mon
Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a radio journalist who is traveling the country talking to young people about their view on themselves, their dreams, ambitions, fears, and overall thoughts about the society that they will one day inherit. He is called back home to California by his sister Viv (Gabby Hoffmann) who needs someone to look after…
Firebird
Sergey (Tom Prior) is counting down the days to the end of his military service and starting his dream of becoming an actor. His best friend, Luisa (Diana Pozharskaya), the secretary to the base commander, is wary of his ambitions but remains supportive. Their relationship is turned on its head when a new fighter pilot, Roman…
Wolf
Jacob (George MacKay) is a young man that, due to species dysmorphia, believes he is a wolf. His parents send him to a specialized institution to teach him how to behave as a human again. Once there, he forms a close bond with Wildcat (Lily-Rose Depp) as the two navigate through their treatment led by…
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
At the end of the 19th century, British cartoonist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) rises in fame and popularity for his whimsical illustrations of cats. Despite the realization of his art by the public, his troubled past still haunts the whimsical illustrator, and his continued decline in mental stability – modernly looked at now as schizophrenia – becomes unbearable for the…
Prayers for the Stolen
In a small Mexican town, nestled in the mountains, the very real threat from drug cartels and human trafficking greatly impacts the lives of all people. Most immediate are the young girls that live in the town who wear boyish clothes, cut their hair short, and have designated areas to hide whenever someone from the cartels stops by their homes…
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