Three high school girls spending their final summer in the drama club. A woman who longs for the sounds of the town and tries to stop time. A fisherman living while facing an inevitable generational change. A man who has moved to the town and grows vegetables while waiting for spring. The sounds of everyday life they create are gentle and quiet, yet the sounds that flow there exist only in that town, and they are also sounds that stir everyone’s memories.
It’s 5:30am. The baby’s crying, but you need to finish prepping for your big pitch at work that morning. What do you do? You do the near impossible: both. That's what "Workin' Moms" is all about.
The Slumber Party Massacre wonderfully combines the suspense of its horror with its commentary on gender, creating a memorable slasher classic that began a horror trilogy entirely written and directed by women.
An enchanted school for young heroes and villains brings the battle between good and evil in this fantasy movie.
The concept of male fragility is explored (interestingly, by a male director) in The Sun Never Sets
The Weight is highly recommended, will transport you back to its Great Depression-era setting and will have you rooting for the protagonist harder than most films this year
Remakes. Reboots. Reinventions. Redundancy. It's the common practice in Hollywood of late, sometimes offering us victorious reimagining of what can be considered cinematic classics while also, more often, falling flat on their UN-imaginative faces in utter defeat and lackluster results. Admittedly, with this in mind, I went into the newest incarnation of "The War of the Roses" with typical trepidation and cautious optimism.
