Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)

Inuit girls use their Inuit tradition to hunt down alien monsters, enough said.

Like all modern societal phenomenons, it started with a meme. This one highlighted that when there’s a mom in a Pixar film, she is almost without fail given striking curves that highlight the bottom half of her body following a minuscule waist. From Elastigirl to the skeletal Mama Imelda, the animation giant’s artists seem to have a fixation on making exaggeratedly curvy maternal characters.

With such a raw look at the 15th century, it seems that Disney was really trying to step outside of its element with this motion picture. 

The Gates, John Burr’s new thriller film, is a disturbingly realistic portrayal of three Black twenty-somethings - Derek (Mason Gooding), Kevin (Algee Smith), and Tyon (Keith Powers), as they accidentally take a wrong turn into a gated community that’s more like a modern-day sundown town. The three friends witness a variety of crimes in their new surroundings, including an attempted homicide and an attempted rape. As they attempt to alert the authorities and do the right thing, they are thwarted at every turn by the worst horror stories of American conservatism - racist white suburbanites, reckless gun violence, corrupt police, religious mania, and a megalomaniacal pastor. 

Despite this genre not being a new one, The Novice offers a fresh perspective with its study of performance anxiety

This comedy brings a big surprise to Josh and his family when they move to New York City and struggle to adapt to their new friend.