A teenage girl finds herself in the middle of a clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend in Good One. Sam (Lily Collias) is a 17-year-old girl accompanying her father Chris (James Le Gros) on a weekend camping trip. The two are joined by Chris’ oldest friend Matt (Danny McCarthy), who is…
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A serial killer learns that the FBI has set a trap for him at a concert in Trap. Cooper Adams (Josh Hartnett) is taking his teenage daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to see her favourite pop star Lady Raven (Saleka Night Shyamalan). While at the concert venue, Cooper notices an increased police presence blocking all the…
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help out his estranged daughter in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is still working the streets of Detroit, much to the chagrin of his friend and Deputy Chief Jeffrey Friedman (Paul Reiser), who announces his retirement to cover for Axel’s latest screw-up. Jeffrey encourages…
A rebellious teenager seeks the help of a UFO society to locate her missing father in UFO Sweden. For the past eight years, Denise (Inez Dahl Torhaug) has been in foster care under the watchful eye of sympathetic police officer Tomi (Sara Shirpey) after her ufologist father, Uno (Oscar Töringe), disappears while following a lead….
Two 13-year-old girls return possessed after going missing in the woods in The Exorcist: Believer. Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.) is the single father to 13-year-old Angela (Lidya Jewett), whose birth cost her mother’s life. Angela goes after school to hang out with her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum), however, they disappear in the woods and…
Life in a quiet farming village is disrupted by urban developers planning to build a “glamping” site in Evil Does Not Exist. Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) is a jack-of-all-trades living with his eight-year-old daughter Hana (Ryuji Kosaka) in a small village in a heavily forested village outside of Tokyo. The serenity of the village is disrupted…
A ragtag group of time travellers try to protect the Earth from nuclear disaster in The Visitor from the Future. Gilbert Alibert (Arnaud Ducret) is on the verge of signing a deal to take over the Axomako Nuclear Plant, much to the protest of his environmentalist daughter Alice (Enya Baroux). Breaking into her father’s house…
An escaped cult member helps a police officer locate his kidnapped daughter in God is a Bullet. One Christmas, desk jockey police officer Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is distraught to discover his ex-wife murdered and his teenage daughter Gabi (Chloe Guy) kidnapped by a Satanic cult led by the sadistic Cyrus (Karl Glusman). Bob is…
A family is tormented by a closet-hiding monster in The Boogeyman. Sisters Sadie (Sophie Thatcher) and Sawyer Harper (Vivien Lyra Blair) are in grief after the death of their mother in a car accident, a subject that their therapist father Will (Chris Messina) tries to ignore. One day, will is visited by a highly disturbed…
An audio recording of our review of The Boogeyman
This Review is Spoiler-Free Ghostface returns in the Big Apple in Scream VI. One year after the latest attacks in Woodsboro, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) and her sister Tara (Jenna Ortega) have moved to New York City along with fellow survivors Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and her twin brother Chad (Mason Gooding). Sam struggles…
A solid latter-day effort by M. Night Shyamalan.
An enjoyable father-daughter drama, which may require more than one viewing to understand.
Disclaimer: My thoughts on Bones and All are based on the content of this work of fiction and do not support nor condone the act of cannibalism A teenage girl battling cannibalistic urges goes on a cross-country trip to locate her birth mother in Bones and All. Maren Yearly (Taylor Russell) is a teenager whose…
A father and his daughters are trapped in the African Savanna by a vicious lion in Beast. Dr. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) has travelled with his daughters Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Jeffries) to a wildlife reserve in the African Savanna, near where Nate’s late wife grew up. While shown the reserve by friend…
An elderly shaman seeks to save his estranged daughter from demonic forces in Legions. Antonio Poyju (Germán De Silva) was once a powerful shaman and mediary between worlds. However, he now finds himself admitted to a mental hospital, where his fellow patients are putting on a play based on Antonio’s life story. However, when a…
A family enters a mournful state after their android helper breaks down in After Yang. Jake (Colin Farrell) and Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) are a couple who acquired an android named Yang (Justin H. Min) to be a sibling for their adopted daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), in order to help her connect with her Chinese…
The legacy characters return to assist a new generation terrorized by the Ghostface killer in Scream. It has been a decade since 2011’s Scream 4 marked the first attempt to revive the franchise, which was originally supposed to end with 2000’s Scream 3. In that time, director Wes Craven passed away from brain cancer in…
A mixed-race teenager begins a secret relationship with the popular boy at her school, following her parents’ divorce in InBetween Girl. Angie Chen (Emma Galbraith) is a teenage girl in Galveston, Texas, born to Chinese father Fai (KaiChow Lau) and white American mother Veronica (Liz Waters). In the aftermath of her parents’ sudden divorce, Angie…
An Oklahoma oil worker travels to France to help his imprisoned daughter in Stillwater. Bill Baker (Matt Damon) is a roughneck oil driller from the town of Stillwater, Oklahoma, who travels to Marseille, France to visit his daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin), who has been in prison for the last five years for the murder of her…
A troubled teenager accidentally uncovers a dark secret involving his neighbour in The Winter Lake. Tom (Anson Boon) has recently moved with his mother Elaine (Charlie Murphy) to his great-grandfather’s farmhouse in the Irish countryside. Elaine holds a disdain for Tom, whose violent behaviour was the catalyst for their moving out of the city, with Tom…
A man with worsening dementia is taken in by his daughter in The Father. Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is an elderly man suffering from the effects of dementia, who moves in with his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) after he has a falling out with his live-in nurse. However, the move is not easy on Anthony, who…
Sacha Baron Cohen unleashes his Kazakhstani news reporter on more unsuspecting Americans in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bride to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Fourteen years after his first trip to America, Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) finds himself an embarrassment to his country of Kazakhstan. As a…
A woman enlists the help of her playboy father to uncover the truth of her husband’s infidelity in One the Rocks. Laura (Rashida Jones) is a struggling writer, who begins to suspect that her husband Dean (Marlon Wayans) might be having an affair with his assistant Fiona (Jessica Henwick) on his many business trips. To…
The Wyld Stallyns go on one final time-traveling adventure in Bill & Ted Face the Music. It has been more than three decades since Bill S. Preston, Esq (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves) were prophecized to write a song that unites the world, however their band Wyle Stallyns has been on a…
A troubled man and his family encounter strange occurrences at their Welsh vacation home in You Should Have Left. Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) is a former banker, who plagued by nightmares and the lingering fallout from a past event. Theo decides to go on a vacation to Wales with his much younger actress wife Susana…
A teenage girl fights back against a gang of neo-nazis in Becky. Becky (Lulu Wilson) is a bullied high school student, who has a strained relationship with her father Jeff (Joel McHale) after the death of Becky’s mother. During a trip to the family cottage, Becky is not happy to find out that they have…
A young girl wants to escape from her father’s protective control in Freaks. Seven year old Chloe (Lexy Kolker) has spent her whole life living in hiding with her father Henry (Emile Hirsch), who warns her of the dangers outside. However, Chloe soon becomes fed up with her captivity and ventures outside, where she meets ice cream…
A woman struggles with guilt following an accidental killing in Blood on Her Name. In the aftermath of an apparent robbery gone wrong, Leigh Tiller (Bethany Anne Lind) is left with a dead body on the floor of her garage. Leigh’s initial response is to try and dispose of the body, but she becomes wracked…
A young woman moves into an apartment complex with a dark secret in 1BR. Living in Los Angeles to get away from his estranged father, Sarah (Nicole Brydon Bloom) lucks into a one-bedroom at Asilo Del Mar Apartments. Greeted by the friendly manager Jerry (Taylor Nichols), Sarah quickly becomes acquainted with the neighbours, including man…
A young girl wants to escape from her father’s protective control in Freaks. Seven year old Chloe (Lexy Kolker) has spent her whole life living in hiding with her father Henry (Emile Hirsch), who warns her of the dangers outside. However, Chloe soon becomes fed up with her captivity and ventures outside, where she meets ice cream…
A man desperately tries to find his missing daughter in Searching. David Kim (John Cho) has had a somewhat distant relationship with his 16 year old daughter Margot (Michelle La) after the death of his wife. However, David becomes concerned when Margot seemingly vanishes without a trace one night and it isn’t long before he reports her…
The characters from the Hundred Acre Wood set out to assist their now grown up friend in Christopher Robin. As a child, Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) enjoyed many adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with his friend Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings), Piglet (Nick Mohammed), Tigger (Cummings), Eeyore (Brad Garrett), Rabbit (Peter Capaldi), Owl (Toby Jones), Kanga…
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds organizes a music festival in support of LGBTs in the Morman community in Believer. Raised as part of the Morman church, Dan Reynolds begins to have a major crisis of faith involving the church’s strict stance against gay rights, which has contributed to an pandemic of suicides by LGBT youth…
The life and career of Gilda Radner is told in her own words in Love, Gilda. Growing up in Detroit, Gilda Radner quickly became a star for The Second City in Toronto and later as one of the fist cast members of Saturday Night Live. Radner paved the way for women in comedy, while also…
Three parents try to disrupt their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity on prom night in Blockers. Lisa (Leslie Mann), Mitchell (John Cena), and Hunter (Ike Barinholtz) are three friends, whose daughters Julie (Kathryn Newton), Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan), and Sam (Gideon Adlon) are heading off to their senior prom. However, Julie leaves her laptop open…
A girl is sent on a quest to rescue her father in A Wrinkle in Time. It has been four years since Meg Murry’s (Storm Reid) astrophysicist father (Chris Pine) disappeared without a trace. One day, Meg, her younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), and friend Calvin (Levi Miller) meet the astral travelers Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), Mrs. Who…
Dominic Toretto seemingly turns his back on family in The Fate of the Furious. While on honeymoon in Cuba with Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) is approached by cyberterrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron), who blackmails Dom into betraying his family, which he does while performing a job for Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson). After the…
A corporate consultant has to deal with the prankish behaviour of her father in Toni Erdmann. Winfried (Peter Simonischek) is a retired piano teacher in Germany, who delights in playing pranks on people. However, he has a bit of a distant relationship with his daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller), who is a high-ranking management consultant in Bucharest. Winfried spontaneously…
A corporate constant has to deal with the prankish behaviour of her father in Toni Erdmann. Winfried (Peter Simonischek) is a retired piano teacher in Germany, who delights in playing pranks on people. However, he has a bit of a distant relationship with his daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller), who is a high-ranking management consultant in Bucharest. Winfried…
The most dangerous villains around are brought together as part of a secret government strike force in Suicide Squad. With meta-humans becoming an increasing concern, government official Amanda Walker (Viola Davis) wants to put together a team of the worst of the worst, who will be tasked with performing seemingly impossible missions, under the supervision…
