A top British Intelligence officer tries to find the person responsible for a critical security breach, with one of the suspects being his wife, in Black Bag. George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) is an operative at Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre, who is given a list by Philip Meacham (Gustaf Skarsgård) containing those suspected of a…
The haunting of a family is shown from the point-of-view of the ghost in Presence. After an unknown presence silently moves through the rooms of an empty house, realtor Cece (Julia Fox) arrives to show the house to Rebekah (Lucy Liu), her husband Chris (Chris Sullivan) and their kids, Tyler (Eddy Maday) and Chloe (Callina Liang)….
One of the special events of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival was a screening of a “Surprise New Film” by director Steven Soderbergh. As many predicted beforehand, this “new” film ended up being a re-edited version of Soderbergh’s 1991 sophomore film Kafka, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and is a film…
A self-help author is tormented on a nightly business by a home-invading killer in Lucky. May Ryer (Brea Grant) is a notable self-help author, whose latest book hasn’t been selling as well as her first. One night. May discovers a masked invader at her house and her husband Ted (Dhruv Uday Singh) matter-of-factly mentions that…
A 90 year old atheist navy veteran contemplates his mortality in Lucky. Living in a small town in the California desert, Lucky (Harry Dean Stanton) has a very specific daily routine, which includes doing the crossword at the local diner run or conversing with his friends at the bar. However, one day Lucky’s routine is…
Two brothers plan a robbery during a NASCAR race in Logan Lucky. Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is a down on his luck man, who was fired from his mining job and is constantly at odds with his ex-wife Bobbie Jo Chapman (Katie Holmes), who has custody of their daughter Sadie (Farrah Mackenzie). With the help of his…
An FBI agent finds herself part of a morally ambiguous anti-drug task force in Sicario. Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) is an agent of the FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Team, who uncovers dozens of bodies in the walls of a house in Arizona. With this being the result of Mexican cartel activity, Kate volunteers to Department of…
Will Smith plays an expert con-man with an attractive young protégé in the comedy Focus. Nicky Spurgeon (Smith) is a seasoned grifter, who learned everything that he knows from his father, with the key to his cons being to never lose focus of the mark. One night Nicky meets an attractive young woman named Jess…
The world of activism is supposed to be all about “fighting the man” and trying to make the world a better place in a way governments are unable or unwilling to do. As such, it is probably the gravest capital sin for an activist to be found out as an informant for the FBI. That…
Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra is notable for two things. First, the film has been heavily hyped as being Soderbergh’s final film as a director. It remains to be seen whether this truly will be his final film or if Soderbergh will merely end up taking a sabbatical for a few years. The…
