Co-directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., the story follows new student Cady Heron, who is welcomed into the top social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics.”
The conniving queen bee, Regina George, rules the group. She uses her minions, Gretchen and Karen, to help deliver dirty deeds. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs.
As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.
Inspired by the 1980s hit TV series, real stuntman and director David Leitch helms an all-star cast in The Fall Guy. We follow a stuntman, played by Ryan Gosling, who, like everyone in the stunt community, gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment.
And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life, played by Emily Blunt, while still doing his day job.
Leitch is the blockbuster director of Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and the producer of John Wick, Nobody and Violent Night. The Fall Guy is his most personal film because he’s an original stuntman. It’s his love letter to the under-appreciated crew in this supposedly hilarious, hard-driving, apex-action thriller.
Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on his physical and mental health. He is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie directed by his ex, Jody Moreno, played by Blunt, goes missing.
While the film’s ruthless producer, played by Hannah Waddingham, maneuvers to keep the disappearance of star Tom Ryder, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, a secret from the studio and the media, Colt performs the film’s most outrageous stunts while futilely trying to charm his way back into Jody’s good graces.
But as the mystery around the missing star deepens, Colt becomes entangled in a sinister, criminal plot that will push him to the edge of a fall more dangerous than any stunt.
The Fall Guy also stars Winston Duke and Stephanie Hsu.
Written for the screen and directed by Cord Jefferson, American Fiction is a hilarious twist on the obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.
Based upon the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.
Reginald Hudlin directs Eddie Murphy and a stellar cast in this holiday comedy adventure, Candy Cane Lane. It’s about a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest.
After Chris, played by Murphy, inadvertently makes a deal with a naughty elf named Pepper, played by Jillian Bell. He wants to better his chances of winning the annual holiday decoration contest. Pepper casts a magic spell that brings the 12 Days of Christmas to life and wreaks havoc on the whole town.
Chris, his wife Carol, played by Tracee Ellis Ross, and their three children race against time to break Pepper’s spell and save the holidays. It’s a battle of deviously magical characters and saves Christmas for everyone.
Apple TV+ brings us the eight-episode and limited series Lessons in Chemistry. Brie Larson is the executive producer and stars based on the best-selling novel by author, science editor and copywriter Bonnie Garmus.
Set in the early 1950s, the series follows Elizabeth Zott, played by Larson, whose dream of being a scientist they put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes.
Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker, and Thomas Mann are starring alongside Larson.
Nahnatchka Khan directed Totally Killer, a story focusing on 35 years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer“ returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. The film streams on Amazon Prime.
17-year-old Jamie, played by Kiernan Shipka, ignores her overprotective mom, played by Julie Bowen when she warns her and comes face to face with the masked maniac.
On the run for her life, she accidentally time-travels back to 1987, the year of the original killings.
Forced to navigate the unfamiliar and outrageous culture of the 1980s, Jamie teams up with her teen mom, played by Olivia Holt. to take down the killer once and for all before she’s stuck in the past forever.
Jessica Yu directs Quiz Lady, starring Awkwafina, Sandra Oh and Will Ferrell. Anne, played by Awkwafina, and her estranged, train-wrecked sister, Jenny, played by Oh, work together to pay off their mother’s gambling debt.
When Anne’s beloved dog is kidnapped, the stakes get higher, and the two sisters go on an outrageous cross-country road trip to get the cash to cover the gambling debts.
The Burial took inspiration from actual events and was co-written by Doug Wright and Maggie Betts. Betts also directs the story about a handshake deal that goes sour.
Funeral homeowner Jeremiah O’Keefe, played by Tommy Lee Jones, enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary, played by Jamie Foxx, to save his family business.
Tempers flare, and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond, exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice in this inspirational, triumphant story.
Directed by Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi and based on a true story, Next Goal Wins follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001.
“Next Goal Wins” stars Elizabeth Moss.
With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen, played by Michael Fassbender, hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around in this heartfelt underdog comedy.
Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, David Fane, Rachel House, Beulah Koale, Uli Latukefu, Semu Filipo, and Lehi Falepapalangi, with Will Arnett and Elisabeth Moss also star in this outrageous comedy.
Clay Tarver directs Vacation Friends 2. The film follows Marcus, played by Lil Rel Howery, who lands an all-expense-paid trip to a Caribbean resort. He and his wife, played by Yvonne Orji, invite their uninhibited besties, played by John Cena and Meredith Hagner.
But when their friend’s incarcerated father is released from San Quentin and shows up, mayhem ensues, and the movie gets out of control and raunchier.
