REVENGE
Original Release Date: May 11, 2018
Directed by: Coralie Fargeat
Streaming: Shudder
Official Synopsis: Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend until his two sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. As tension mounts in the house, the situation abruptly and viciously intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen brutalised and left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, she survives and soon begins a relentless quest for bloody revenge.
Starring: Matilda Lutz
BoJACK HORSEMAN: SEASON FIVE
Original Release Date: September 14th, 2018
Number Of Episodes: 12
Streaming: Netflix
Official Synopsis: BoJack will be starring in a new TV show called Philbert, playing a character with disturbing parallels to BoJack’s real life, echoes that force BoJack to confront himself and his past in ways large and small. Also, Diane gets a haircut.
Voice Talent: Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins, and Aaron Paul
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
Original Release Date: December 20, 2017
Directed by: Michael Gracey
Streaming: HBO Go
90th Academy Awards
Best Original Song (Nominee)
Official Synopsis: Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business & tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya
DRINKING BUDDIES
Original Release Date: August 23, 2013
Directed by: Joe Swanberg
Streaming: Tubi TV
Official Synopsis: Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They’re perfect for each other, except that they’re both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick and Ron Livingston
NANCY
Original Release Date: June 8, 2018
Directed by: Christina Choe
Streaming: Hoopla
Official Synopsis: NANCY is a provocative psychological thriller about love, intimacy, and trust – and what happens when lies become truth. Craving connection with others, Nancy creates elaborate identities and hoaxes under pseudonyms on the internet. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, fact and fiction begin to blur in Nancy’s mind, and she becomes increasingly convinced these strangers are her real parents. As their bond deepens, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief – and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, J. Smith-Cameron, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo, and Steve Buscemi
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Original Release Date: October 12, 2007
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Streaming: Prime Video
80th Academy Awards
Best Original Screenplay (Nominee)
Official Synopsis: Lars Lindstrom is a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to his brother Gus and his wife Karen, and they are stunned. They don’t know what to say to Lars or Bianca–because she is a life-size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as though she is alive. They consult the family doctor Dagmar who explains this is a delusion he’s created–for what reason she doesn’t yet know but they should all go along with it. What follows is an emotional journey for Lars and the people around him.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, and Patricia Clarkson
IRON FIST: SEASON TWO
Original Release Date: September 7, 2018
Number Of Episodes: 10
Streaming: Netflix
Official Synopsis: Danny Rand (Finn Jones), the Immortal Iron Fist, has left behind the day-to-day oversight of Rand Enterprises, throwing himself into his mission to defend New York City. But when an old friend returns with twisted intentions, it threatens the fragile peace Danny maintains within his community, and within himself.
Starring: Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, Tom Pelphrey, Jessica Stroup, Sacha Dhawan, Alice Eve, and Simone Missick
THE GAMBLER
Original Release Date: December 25, 2014
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Streaming: Tubi TV
Official Synopsis: Jim Bennett (Academy Award (R)-nominee Mark Wahlberg) is a risk taker. Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster (Michael Kenneth Williams) and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring (Alvin Ing) and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother (Academy Award (R)-winner Jessica Lange) in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank (John Goodman), a loan shark with a paternal interest in Bennett’s future. As his relationship with a student (Brie Larson) deepens, Bennett must take the ultimate risk for a second chance.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Michael K. Williams, and Jessica Lange
CITIZEN KANE
Original Release Date: September 5, 1941
Directed by: Orson Welles
Streaming: Film Struck
14th Academy Awards
Best Picture (Nominee)
Best Director (Nominee)
Best Leading Actor (Nominee)
Best Cinematography (Nominee)
Best Original Screenplay (WINNER)
Best Art Direction (Nominee)
Best Film Editing (Nominee)
Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture (Nominee)
Best Sound Recording (Nominee)
Official Synopsis: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
PIXAR’S UP
Original Release Date: May 29, 2009
Directed by: Pete Docter
Streaming: Starz
82nd Academy Awards
Best Picture (Nominee)
Best Animated Feature (WINNER)
Best Original Screenplay (Nominee)
Best Original Score (WINNER)
Best Sound Editing (Nominee)
Official Synopsis: A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn’t alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world’s second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
Voice Talent: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Bob Peterson
