Guillermo del Toro takes aim at Award season with this mysterious tale of a manipulative carny (Bradley Cooper) who meets his match in an even more dangerous psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett). The teaser is intentionally cryptic but drew us in with its bold visuals and emotional tension. In theaters 12.17.2021.
Adam Butcher proffers up a hefty amount of dread and silence in The Prevailing Winds – a tale of a lone hiker searching for her sister in an isolated area where a deadly wind-borne toxin threatens with the slightest shift of air.
Written and directed by Johannes Hartmann, Halbschlaf – “half-asleep” – plays on our implicit trust as viewers in what the film chooses to reveal, using an entertaining albeit predictable trick.
Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws gets the high-definition treatment – with 7.1 upmixed soundtrack – as part of Universal Studios’ 100th anniversary. You’re gonna need a bigger TV.
Based on the best-selling novel by Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin is about a mother trying to cope with “the increasing malevolence” of her son. Starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly.
Willem Dafoe plays a mercenary hired to hunt a rare, possibly extinct animal. His mission becomes more deadly when he becomes involved with the family of a man who was also hunting the animal.
John Cusack plays the role of Edgar Allan Poe, who is asked to help catch a serial killer who bases his murders on Poe’s stories in this fictionalized account of the writer’s last days.
In the creepy Case 39, Renee Zellweger stars as family services social worker Emily Jenkins, who thinks she’s seen it all until she meets her most mysterious case, 10-year old Lilith Sullivan.
If you ever get a phone call and the person on the other end of the line says to you “Get Out of There!” you pretty much know that death awaits you with big pointy teeth if you don’t comply.
This UK indie tells the tale of two criminals who kidnap a young woman named Alice Creed. But things don’t always work out as planned, and Alice turns the tables on her captors. Opens August 6.
