Co-written by Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott and directed by Seligman, Bottoms is a raunchy comedy. The story follows two girls, PJ and Josie, played by Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri. They start a fight club to lose their virginities to cheerleaders.
Their bizarre plan works. The fight club gains traction, and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves over their heads and need a way out before their strategy explodes.
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.
Nia Vardalos directs this third installment of the popular romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
Elena Kampouris, John Corbett and Louis Mandylor return to bring us laughter and craziness.
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, continue producing this franchise because it’s so Greek!
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.
Ben Wheatley directed MEG 2: The Trench from the screenplay by Jon Hoeber, Dean Georgaris and Eric Hoeber. The science fiction action film stars Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sienna Guillory, and Page Kennedy.
Based on Steve Alten’s 1999 novel The Trench, which is part of a series about a prehistoric megalodon, a giant shark, The catchphrase when he introduced his first novel was “Jurassic Shark.”
I met Alten before his book first was published. It’s a fascinating success story, where I think he had to make some wise career choices.
From Denis Villeneuve’s and Jon Spaihts’s screenplay, Dune: Part Two follows Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, uniting with Chani, played by Zendaya, and the Freman. They’re on a conquest to revenge against the conspirators who destroyed Paul’s family.
Denis Villeneuve directs the sequel by continuing with unique cultures and a storyline based on the book written by Frank Herbert.
Facing a decision between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, Paul must fight a terrible future only he can foresee.
Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Christopher Walken, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem also star.
Jon Gunn directed Ordinary Angels, based on a remarkable true story that follows Sharon Steves, played by Hilary Swank. She’s a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky.
Sharon discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt, played by Alan Ritchson. He is a widower working hard to support his two daughters.
With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith, everyday miracles, and ordinary angels.
Sure, it’s a faith-based movie by the Erwin brothers, but the message is clear — miracles happen.
Walt Disney Animation Studios brings us their 62nd animated film, Wish, directed by Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn.
A classic watercolor animation combined with computer animation, the art style includes Chris Pine, Arianna DeBose and Alan Tudyk as the voices of these magical characters.
Wish follows a 17-year-old girl named Asha, played by DeBose. She makes a passionate plea to the stars when she perceives darkness in the Kingdom of Rosas that no one else perceives.
From the directing team, Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, Platonic is a comedy that follows a platonic pair of former best friends, played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne.
Approaching midlife, they reconnect after a long rift.
The friendship becomes all-consuming—and hilariously destabilizes their lives.
The ensemble cast also stars Luke Macfarlane, Tre Hale, Carla Gallo and Andrew Lopez.
Kenneth Branagh, once again, directs an Agatha Christie story, A Haunting in Venice. He plays Hercule Poirot, a Belgian sleuth who investigates a murder while participating in a Halloween seance.
Branagh directed a stellar cast, including Jami Dorman, Michelle Yeoh and Tina Fey.