Director Takashi Doscher’s fantasy mystery film "Still" was released in 2018 and stars Lydia Wilson, Nick Blood, and Madeline Brewer. I was admittedly intrigued with the premise of this movie when it crossed my Hulu recommendations: a young hiker stumbles upon an off-the-grid couple with a big secret. As an amateur hiker myself, I was pulled in and couldn’t wait for a story that may leave me looking over my shoulder on my next hike. Needless to say I will not be unnecessarily nervous at every turn on my next adventure.
The movie starts by setting up two of the main characters, Adam and Ella- presumably a husband and wife- as outsiders living beyond society somewhere along the Appalachian Trail. We see them lure two lost hikers to their home only to get rid of them in one way or the other. The way it’s set up, we can assume the two hikers were killed by the husband without the wife’s consent or approval. I was intrigued at this. I assumed that the two were serial killers and the secret to their survival in their off-the-grid lifestyle was luring lost hikers to their home to kill them.
When a young hiker stumbles onto an isolated farm after losing her way on the Appalachian Trail, she is taken in by a strange yet beautiful couple desperate to protect a secret deep in the mountains.
Trigger Warning with Killer Mike, a part of Netflix's Black Lives Matter Collection, features different social experiments showcasing the larger state of race relations in our society.
Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they've rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does, in so many words, sum up the foundational gist of of this new feature film from writer Seth Reiss ("The Menu") and director Kogonada ("The Acolyte", "After Yang"). Yet, it's all only the set-up for the REAL wonder of everything that happens before, during, and in the aftermath of a magical, meaningful journey.
On the Road captures the bleak, hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking in Northern Mexico, where anything can and will happen. A hard-boiled, neon-noir romantic thriller, it shows the gritty reality of roadside diners, truck stops, and truck cemeteries alongside the expansive, breathless beauty of the Mexican desert highways.
Adapted from a 2014 novel by Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life is the feature film debut of documentary filmmaker Bing Liu. With the help of screenwriter Martyna Majok, he paints a realistic and somber portrayal of Aishe, a Uyghur immigrant, as she struggles to make a living while undocumented in the United States.
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness explores true identity through exploration.
While the camera is objectifying her body to invoke a sexual response in male viewers, Lara Croft still defies the expectations of women in action films.
