Alexander Payne directed The Holdovers movie from a screenplay by David Hemingson. It tells the story of a grumpy teacher, played by Paul Giamatti, who babysits some students during Christmas break.
Tate Donovan, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston and Michael Provost also star in the film.
Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone in this Victorian tale of love, discovery and scientific daring.
Poor Things tells the incredible story of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by an eccentric but brilliant scientist.
Baxter runs off with a lawyer for a whirlwind adventure across the continents. She blossoms from the freedom of prejudices and becomes steadfast in supporting liberation and equality.
Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, and Christopher Abbott star in the film.
Films directed by Yorgos Lanthimos:
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Lobster
Alps
Dogtooth
Reinaldo Marcus Green directed Bob Marley: One Love, which honors Bob Marley’s life and celebrates the iconic reggae musician, portrayed by Kingsley Ben-Adir. The story follows his rise to fame and his courage to support human rights.
Michael Gandolfini, Lashana Lynch and Anthony Welsh also star.
Liam Neeson stars in Retribution, an immersive ticking-clock thriller in a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge.
Directed by Nimrod Antal, the story begins with a mysterious caller who puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner, played by Neeson. Then, a high-speed chase occurs across the city to complete specific tasks. Matt is in a race against time to save his kids from a bomb in the back seat of the car he’s driving, following a stranger’s dangerous instructions.
Jack Campion, Noma Dumezweni, Matthew Modine and Emily Kusche also star.
Written by Alejandro Monteverde and Rod Barr and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, Sound of Freedom stars Jim Caviezel, who plays a federal agent who quit his job and devoted his life to rescuing children around the world from human trafficking.
“This is the second most important film I’ve done behind Passion of The Christ,” declared Caviezel.
The Blu-ray is available on Amazon.
Justin Kuritzkes wrote the screenplay, and Luca Guadagnino directed Challengers. The film stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy, coach, and force of nature. She makes no apologies for her game on and off the court.
The studio is calling this the first trailer. However, scroll down, and you’ll see the MGM trailer, which is milder than the trailer here. Josh O’Connor can play such a good scumbag.
Married to a champion on a losing streak, played by Mike Faist of West Side Story, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn.
He must face off against the washed-up Patrick, played by O’Connor of The Crown, his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.
As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win?
Guadagnino is a visionary filmmaker best known for Call Me By Your Name. Some other films he’s directed:
The Staggering Girl
Protagonists
I Am Love
Written for the screen and directed by Cory Finley, Landscape with Invisible Hand is based on the Book by: M.T. Anderson.
Two teens, played by Kylie Rogers and Asante Blackk, plan to secure their families’ futures in a world of alien rule, where the aliens have advanced technology. The teenagers pose as boyfriend and girlfriend to earn viewer shares. But they fake it to make money.
Tiffany Haddish also stars in the film.
Martin Scorsese co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth and directed Killers of the Flower Moon based on David Grann’s best-selling book.
The film follows Ernest Burkhard, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mollie Kyle, played by Lily Gladstone, in an improbable romance. At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the wealthiest people in the world overnight.
The wealth of these Native Americans attracted white interlopers. They manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as possible before committing murder.
The movie also stars Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons.
Directed by Anthony Mandler and written by Andrew Pagana and Justin Thomas, the Surrounded stars Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, and Jeffrey Donovan, with Brett Gelman and Michael K. Williams.
Five years after the Civil War, freedwoman and former Buffalo Soldier Moses “Mo” Washington travels west to lay claim to a gold mine. It’s the summation of years of toil for Mo and her community. It is a mean, dangerous world for an unaccompanied Black woman in 1870 America, so Mo travels into the deep frontier disguised as a man.
After a group of murderous thieves ambushes her stagecoach, Mo is forced to hold legendary outlaw Tommy Walsh captive while the remaining surviving passengers seek help.
A battle of wills blurs the line between captor and captive as they try to survive the harsh Western landscape.
Mission Impossible actress Rebecca Ferguson stars with a fine cast in the Apple TV series Silo, based on the book series of the same name by Hugh Howey.
In a science-fiction, dystopia storyline, we follow Juliette, played by Ferguson, in a ruined and toxic future. Here, a giant underground silo community plunged hundreds of stories deep.
People live in a society full of regulations that they believe protect them.
Also starring in the series are Tim Robbins, Rashida Jones, Harriet Walter and Ferdinand Kingsley.