Young Woman and the Sea

Truly Ederle was a sickly girl (Olive Abercrombie) not long for this world, but defying all odds she recovered from her bout with measles and when she was grown (Daisy Ridley), she defied all odds again by being the first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926.  Her remarkable story was of course…

Fly Me to the Moon

Running out of time and money to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s promise to beat the Soviets and land a man on the moon before the end of the decade, Moe Berkus (Woody Harrelson) sends Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson), an ad executive in New York City, down to Florida to reingratiate the space program to…

Longlegs

Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is brought on to a decades-spanning case by Agnet Carter (Blair Underwood) to help investigate a pattern of brutal murder-suicides that are all connected by coded letters left at the crime scene by “Longlegs” but seemingly nothing else.  As Lee gets closer to the killer, she begins to recall memories…

The Long Game

In 1957, the San Felipe Mustangs made history when the team of young Mexican American golfers not only played at a white golf club but went on to become the Texas high school state champions; a far cry from the makeshift greens they cleared in an overgrown field.  Led by their two coaches, JB Peña…

Janet Planet

Across a pivotal summer before entering sixth grade, Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) does what she can to cling on to her childhood and her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson).  As the days pass, so too do three people who will have a profound impact on this small family unit, sometimes upsetting, other times enhancing the delicate balance…

MaXXXine

After surviving the “Texas Porn Star Massacre” of 1979, Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) moves to Hollywood to follow her dreams and become a star.  She lands the lead role in Liz Bender’s (Elizabeth Debicki) newest film, The Puritan II, and is excited at the road to fame ahead of her.  Someone, though, is not so…

Kinds of Kindness

Robert (Jesse Plemons) eagerly follows every order from his boss, Raymond (Willem Dafoe), until Raymond asks Robert to crash his car into a man referred to only as R.M.F. (Yorgos Stefanakos), killing him.  Daniel’s (also Jesse Plemons) wife, Liz (Emma Stone) has been missing and presumed dead on a research trip to a remote island. …

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

The San Pedro Valley is the land of opportunity for many in the East looking to start a new life in the vast West at the Horizon Settlement.  The land, however, is on the Apache hunting grounds and they defend the acreage from encroachment by the expansionists.  Nearby, the US Army has set up a…

A Quiet Place: Day One

Home to over 8 million people, New York City is a loud place.  When aliens with receptors that are hypersensitive to sound crash land in Manhattan, the bustling city quiets down to a whisper because any noise makes one the next target for attack.  Through the quiet destruction, Sam (Lupita Nyong’o) and her cat, Frodo,…