An American woman finds herself trapped in supernatural woods in the Irish countryside in The Watchers. Mina (Dakota Fanning) is an American woman living in Ireland, plagued by guilt over the accidental death of her mother she was responsible for as a child. Mina is tasked by her boss at the pet shop she works…
A vacationing family finds themselves terrorized by their doppelgangers in Us. Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o) is a woman still affected by traumatic experience she went through as a child, where she came to face to face with someone who looked just like her. With her husband Gabe (Winston Duke) and kids Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph)…
A webcam model’s life falls apart after being replaced online by a doppelganger in Cam. Alice (Madeline Brewer) is a young woman, who performs nightly webcam sex shows under the alias of Lola_Lola. Desperate the climb the ranks of her cam site, Alice isn’t beyond doing stunts, such as faking her suicide on camera. After a…
Jake Gyllenhaal faces off with himself in this new doppelganger thriller from director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies), which is an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago’s novel The Double. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a Toronto-based history professor, who lives a somewhat mundane and routine life with his girlfriend Mary (Mélanie Laurent). Based on the recommendation…
British comedian Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) follows up his directorial debut Submarine with this highly surreal and stylized adaptation of the famous Dostoevsky novella. The Double focuses on Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), a meek man, who lives a really unnoticeable existence. His boss Mr. Papadopoulos (Wallace Shawn) fails to realize that Simon has been…
Director Edgar Wright reteams with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the final entry of their “Cornetto Trilogy,” which began with Shaun of the Dead in 2004 and continued with Hot Fuzz in 2007. In The World’s End, Gary King (Pegg) is a man pushing middle age, who can’t escape the glory days of his…
If there is a word I could use to describe The Watch it would be “uneven.” If you take Old School, 21 Jump Street, The I.T. Crowd, and Attack the Block and mash them all together, you might come up with something that looks like this film. The film is advertised as a sci-fi comedy, though this…
