Two families must deal with the repercussions of an apocalyptic cyber attack in Leave the World Behind. Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts) spontaneously decides to book a weekend getaway at a Long Island beach house with her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) and two children Rose (Farrah Mackenzie) and Archie (Charlie Evans). However, in the middle of…
Writer/producer James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez brings the manga series to the big screen with Alita: Battle Angel. It is the year 2563 and an event known as “The Fall” has left Earth devastated, save for the wealthy sky city of Zalem, which floats above the desolate Iron City. While savaging parts is a scrapyard, Dr….
Multiple iterations of the webcrawler team up in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is an awkward teenager from Brooklyn, who has uneasy relationship with his police officer father Jefferson (Brian Tyree Henry). While spray-painting with his Uncle Aaron (Mahershala Ali), Miles is bitten by a spider and gains powers similar to that of Spider-Man…
A working class bouncer from the Bronx gets a job chauffeuring an African American pianist in the American South in Green Book. Set in 1962, Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) is a bouncer at New York’s Copacabana night club, who is in need of work while the club is closed for renovations. Tony is offered a…
The evolution of a young black man at three different points of his life is examined in Moonlight. A young Miami boy nicknamed “Little” (Alex Hibbert) is taken under the wing by kindhearted drug dealer Juan ((Mahershala Ali), who is much more caring than his drug-addicted mother Paula (Naomie Harris). Going by his given name as a…
The park is finally open in Jurassic World. Two decades after John Hammond’s original vision, the dinosaur theme park on the Central American island of Isla Nublar is finally open and thriving. However, the pressure in on the park’s operations manager Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) to create new exciting attractions to keep up the interest of…
Director Derek Cianfrance follows up the 2010 romance Blue Valentine with this film about two men on opposite sides of the law. Luke (Ryan Gosling) is a motorcycle stunt driver, who is reunited with his old flame Romina (Eva Mendes). Just as he was about to leave town with the carnival he works for, he…
After twenty years (and two Alien vs. Predator films), the Predator series finally returns with a stand-alone installment. While film critics are quick to add the “reboot” buzzword to most new films from classic franchises, it is obvious that this film is meant to be a modern day sequel to the original 1987 film (and there’s even…
