24 September
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AD ASTRA Director: James GrayStarring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Kimberly Elise, Lisa Gay Hamilton, John Ortiz Brad Pitt gives one of the best films of his career in Ad Astra. He plays renowned NASA astronaut Roy McBride whose latest mission becomes personal as it involves his father (Lee) who also served as a NASA astronaut but went missing in space decades prior. News quietly spreads that solar rays coming from Neptune are causing power surges on Earth. They believe this may mean that Roy’s father may still be alive. Here’s my reviewRead More →

19 September
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DOWNTON ABBEY Director: Michael EnglerStarring: Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Allen Leech, Penelope Wilton, Joanne Froggatt, Robert James-Collier, Imelda Staunton The Crawley family receives word they will be hosting the King and Queen on a royal tour they are embarking on. The royals will be spending one night at Downton Abbey, but the estate and the Crawley family aren’t quite ready for such an endeavor. The servants rally together to get the entire palace spotless. When their guests arrive, the King and Queen bring their own servants, valets, butlers, and chef leaving the Downton servants furious and jobless. For the Crawley family,Read More →

12 September
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HUSTLERS Director: Lorene ScafariaStarring: Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Julia Stiles, Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, Cardi B, Lizzo, Trace Lysette, Mercedes Ruehl Strippers typically come with a negative stereotype. Hustlers asks us to look beyond that. For Destiny (Wu), it’s a way to make money for being a single mother in New York City. She starts working at a new club, but the money isn’t that great, and she doesn’t feel like she’s as good as the other dancers. Ramona (Lopez) is the queen of the club showcasing what it means to put on a routine for their clients. She takes Destiny under her wings remindingRead More →

12 September
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THE GOLDFINCH Director: John CrowleyStarring: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Finn Wolfhard, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Aneurin Barnard If you’ve read Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, you are familiar with the sweeping gut punch she lays out in her story about Theo Decker. Too bad the film adaptation is missing all of that. When Theo was a kid, his mother took him to an art museum that forever changed their lives. A terrorist explosion took the lives of Theo’s mother and many others. He survived but has been plagued with guilt since that fateful event. The only thing keeping him connectedRead More →

05 September
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IT CHAPTER TWO Director: Andy MuschiettiStarring: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, James Ransone It’s been twenty-seven years since the members of the Losers Club battled Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Skarsgård) They’re now adults and have put their past traumas behind them. They’ve suppressed those memories until Mike (Mustafa) gives them an unwanted call. History is repeating itself in Derry as a new crop of killings have occurred. As kids they made an oath to return to Derry if Pennywise started his reign of terror all over again. When they arrive backRead More →

28 August
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BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON Writer/Director: Paul Downs ColaizzoStarring: Jillian Bell, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Michaela Watkins, Lil Rel Howery, Mikey Day, Micah Stock In the new film Brittany Runs a Marathon, Jillian Bell stars as Brittany who is at that point in her life where she’s in her thirties and far too old to be out drinking past midnight, regularly eating junk food, and late for work every day. She lives in New York City, the city that never sleeps, and she still acts like it. This lifestyle is finally catching up to her when she goes to the doctor’s office and gets a bad report. She’sRead More →

27 August
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MINDHUNTER Season 2 Directors: David Fincher, Andrew Dominik, Carl Franklin Starring: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Stacey Roca, Michael Cerveris, Joe Tuttle, Damion Herriman Mindhunter Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix and takes our trio of FBI agents Holden Ford (Groff), Bill Tench (McCallany), and Wendy Carr (Torv) into deeper, more complicated cases as they as they investigate the Atlanta Child Murders and the unknown BTK Killer. Their work interviewing the likes of David Berkowitz and Charles Manson is groundbreaking and chilling as we see it start to take a toll on their personal lives. Mindhunter is one of the very best NetflixRead More →

21 August
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READY OR NOT Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler GillettStarring: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Andie MacDowell, Henry Czerny, Nicky Guadagni  A bride’s wedding day should be filled with joy and happiness. The day starts that way for Grace (Weaving) as she marries her husband, Alex (O’Brien) at his childhood mansion. His family is beyond wealthy as they own their own company making board games. They’re gamers to the extreme to the point of initiating new members of the family with a traditional wedding night game after all the guests have departed. Grace picks a card from the magical deck revealing Hide and Seek as their game. She learnsRead More →

15 August
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WHERE’D YOU GO BERNADETTE Director: Richard LinklaterStarring: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett stars as the title character in Where’d You Go, Bernadette. She’s a world-renowned architect known for her innovative concepts and designs. She hasn’t found the same energy and fame after moving to Seattle. In recent months she has started showing signs of mental illness and anxiety. Her husband, Elgin (Crudup), is looking for answers, while their teenage daughter, Bee (Nelson), seems a bit more naïve to what is going on. After a few run-ins with the neighbor, school moms, and someRead More →

15 August
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THE KITCHEN Writer/Director: Andrea BerloffStarring: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian d’Arcy James, Common, Margo Martindale You haven’t seen Melissa McCarthy or Tiffany Haddish in a film like this before. Along with Elisabeth Moss they play mob wives whose husbands have been arrested after a botched robbery at a liquor store. It’s January 1978 in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York. The women need money to keep their families afloat, but cash is tight and their crime families won’t chip in to help now that their husbands are locked up. They make a pact to work together to gain control andRead More →