A teenager in a coma reflects on growing up with intellectually disabled parents in Wildflower. After an unknown accident, Bea (Kiernan Shipka) is rushed to the hospital, where she remains in a coma. While unconscious, Bea reflects on her time growing up under the parentage of Derek (Dash Mihok) and Sharon (Samantha Hyde), both of…
The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fight against sexual discrimination is told in On the Basis of Sex. In 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) was one of only nine women enrolled in the Harvard Law School, which she attended at the same time as her husband Marty (Armie Hammer). Fast forward to 1970…
The members of a militia try to find out which one of them is responsible for a mass shooting in The Standoff at Sparrow Creek. Following a mass shooting targeting cops at a funeral, local militia members Gannon (James Badge Dale), Beckmann (Patrick Fischler), Noah (Brian Geraghty), Ford (Chris Mulkey), Morris (Happy Anderson), Keating (Robert Aramayo),…
American gun culture is dissected in Under the Gun. In the aftermath of mass shootings, such as the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, there is a push for more strict gun control laws in the United States. However, guns rights lobbiests fight against such rulings, since it is their constitutional right to bear arms and they…
An aspiring jazz drummer aspires to reach perfection in the musical drama Whiplash. Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) is a young man, who enrols in an elite music conservatory, in the hopes of becoming one of the next great jazz drummers. He is chosen to become part of the school’s jazz ensemble, which is lead by…
From director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum) comes this true story about the captain of an Amercian cargo ship and his near-death experience with Somali pirates. In 2009, Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) sets sail in the MV Maersk Alabama on journey towards Mombasa, Kenya. Phillips’ journey takes him off along the coast of Somalia, which…
