Encanto

Deep in the Columbian jungle sits a small town built around a magical, sentient house, and the matriarch of the home Alma Madrigal (María Cecillia Botero).  She lives there with her triplet children and multiple grandchildren, all of whom were granted a special power from the magic house: super strength, control of the weather, and…

Licorice Pizza

It is 1973 in the San Fernando Valley and things could not be more exciting for fifteen-year-old child star Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) because he just met Alana (Alana Haim), the girl he is going to marry – never mind her being ten years his senior.  After some convincing, Alana entertains Gary with a date,…

The King’s Man

Orlando Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) runs a private spy ring in the United Kingdom during the early 1900’s.  After receiving intelligence that Rasputin (Rhys Ifans), working under the orders of a mysterious “Shepherd” has been advising Tsar Nicholas (Tom Hollander) to withdraw Russia from the World War I, Oxford and his son Conrad (Harris Dickinson) make…

Don’t Look Up

After the freighting discovery of a massive comet heading to Earth, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) quickly calls out to her professor at MIT, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), about the catastrophe waiting to happen.  After confirming her math, the two frantically try to get the attention of President Orlean (Meryl Streep) to deflect and destroy…

Being the Ricardos

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…

Fanny and Alexander

In 1982, Ingmar Bergman released a sprawling reflection on his life, Fanny and Alexander.  Intended to be his swan song, the five-part, 320-minute film examines the European cinema master through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) as he experiences the triumphs and tragedies of growing up while also informing students of the director’s works about what helped to shape the…

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…