It’s usually easy money to bet against a horror remake, especially one as revered as Clive Barker‘s 1987 gore masterwork. It’s a genuine delight with 2020’s sarcasm stuffed into gorgeous period costumes, utilizing the most familiar love story in the Western canon to let us imagine how the side characters must have felt when the spotlight drifted away from them.Ĭast: Jamie Clayton, Odessa A’zion, Adam Faison, Drew Starkey, Brandon Flynn, Aoife Hinds, Jason Liles, Yinka Olorunnife, Selina Lo, and Zachary Hing Now, she gets her due in an excellent romantic comedy that injects some well-trod Shakespeare with Dever’s deadpan and scorned woman revenge. This is another incisive look at two fearless, competent journalists riding a chilling undercurrent of murder.Ĭast: Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Kyle Allen, Sean Teale, Minnie Driver, Bradley Whitford, and Christopher McDonaldĪs most everyone in a high school literature class might remember (or be plagued by), Rosaline is the “immature” love that Romeo sloughs off in order to pursue the forbidden hottie he spied across the crowded party.
Naturally, they’ve got to watch their backs with a guy out there killing women, but they’ve also got to navigate the patriarchal stubbornness of institutions protecting themselves instead of dealing with a genuine danger to the public. Or, more specifically, reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole connecting the dots and uncovering how badly the police department is handling the serial killer. In the case of this explosive film by writer/director Matt Ruskin, it’s the terror-filled reign of the Boston Strangler. We’ve entered an era where major news stories from a half-century ago can be given the glossy Spotlight treatment, using the past to illuminate how we feel about the present. But is Vic really to blame? And if he is, and Melinda is into it, is that super duper weird? Affleck channels big Gone Girl energy, and his work alongside de Armas will challenge you not to yuck someone else’s yum.Ĭast: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola, and Chris Cooper
Sadly (and predictably), Vic gets more than a little jealous, and one-night stands go a little missing. Melinda and Vic have a unique matrimonial union: they stay together for the kids, and Melinda gets all the lovers she wants. This thriller is dripping wet with divisiveness, but where else are you going to get your 1990s sleaze fix nowadays? To wit, this psychological marriage thriller brought Adrian “Fatal Attraction” Lyne out of a 20-year retirement, and while it’s not nearly as steamy as his previous work, it offers up a lot of the same bodily motions. Cast: Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck, Tracy Letts, and Lil Rey Howeryĭivisive? Yes.
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