A Million Miles Away
Flamin’ Hot recounts the tale of American businessman Richard Montañez. Cassandro concerns a flamboyant professional wrestler. The soon-to-be-released Radical is about schoolteacher Sergio Juárez Correa. We’ve seen a plethora of true stories lately about Latino men—specifically, of Mexican descent—a perfect introduction to the latest release on Amazon Prime. A Million Miles Away is the inspiring […]
Dumb Money
Dumb Money is a ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama about the GameStop short squeeze saga. A Massachusetts financial analyst named Keith Gill (Paul Dano) inspired a ragtag group of novice traders (America Ferrera, Anthony Ramos, Myha’la Herrold,Talia Ryder) on Reddit to invest in the public stock GameStop. The retailer sold video games in brick-and-mortar locations in strip malls […]
Oppenheimer
Director Christopher Nolan has a preoccupation with time. As such, he eschews a linear chronology even when telling what could be a straightforward story. His biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) begins in 1954 at the start of a security hearing for the “father of the atomic bomb.” The renowned physicist is suspected of […]
WHAM!
Filmmaker Chris Smith has built a career in documentaries. American Movie was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary in 1999 at Sundance. Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is a compelling account of the Fyre Festival fraud, and as executive producer, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness is the 7-part series that hypnotized […]
Sound of Freedom
Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) is a special agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As an undercover operative, he has successfully captured nearly 300 child predators. However, he wrestles with a moral conundrum. The inability to rescue the actual children themselves weighs heavily on him. He decides to do something about it. After […]
BlackBerry
Capitalism is hot. Earn the highest profit by producing the best good or service at the most competitive price. 2023 has already seen its fair share of movies that tackle the subject—First Tetris, then Air, and now Blackberry. However, not all tales of entrepreneurial determination have the same approach. While the first two were uplifting […]
Big George Foreman
One of the most extraordinary developments in boxing history is when George Foreman, age 45, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he defeated 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round in Las Vegas on November 5, 1994. That event would have been enough to warrant a biopic…but there’s so much more. What makes this a […]
Tetris
Tetris is not your typical video game movie. Imagine if the Mortal Kombat film franchise weren’t martial arts fantasies but the true biographical story of how lawyers at Midway Games argued over contractual obligations. Now you can appreciate the perspective by which screenwriter Noah Pink (anthology TV series Genius) has approached this project. Ok, so […]
Navalny
My Octopus Teacher, Summer of Soul, and now Navalny. On March 12, the submission officially joined fellow recent Oscar winners when it received the award for Best Documentary. The win wasn’t a huge surprise. It was slightly favored to win over the other nominees. The feature had already won the top award at the Producers […]
Argentina, 1985
Do you love politics, history, and courtroom dramas? Argentina, 1985 is a perfect blending of the three. The title is an accurate description of the time and place. The country has recovered its democracy after seven years of a military dictatorship called the National Reorganization Process. The current President has ordered the former commanders to […]