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Lifetime’s The Monster She Married brings a real British Columbia case back to the same part of Canada where the events behind the film unfolded. Molly Saunders stars as Shelley Charalambous, a woman forced to reconsider the life she has built with her husband Joseph after disturbing questions emerge about his treatment of young patients.…
Rob Savage’s Other Mommy turns an ordinary family home into the center of a deeply unsettling supernatural story. Jessica Chastain plays Ursula as well as the entity that takes on her appearance, while Arabella Olivia Clark stars as eight-year-old Bela, the child who begins communicating with the figure she calls Other Mommy. Jay Duplass plays…
A beach bar built on a Vancouver shoreline in November is a good place to begin looking for The Social Reckoning. Aaron Sorkin’s film used the Canadian city for a story centered on American people and institutions, finding locations that could suggest a very different world from the one outside the camera frame. The filming…
Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother follows Latif, played by Mahershala Ali, through a Houston shaped by grief, faith, family and competing communities. After the loss of his wife, the devout father and former contract killer is left caring for three children while circumstances pull him back toward a life he had hoped…
Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Digger gives Tom Cruise one of the most unusual roles of his career. He plays Digger Rockwell, an enormously powerful oil magnate whose actions help push the world toward an environmental crisis, forcing him into an increasingly desperate attempt to prove that he can also be the man who saves it. Riz…
Tenzing brings the 1953 Everest expedition to the screen through the story of Tenzing Norgay. Jennifer Peedom’s film uses an international production landscape, with Himalayan settlements and snowy climbing terrain contributing different parts of that world. Its locations become easier to follow once the places in the story are separated from the sites where the…
Gotham’s latest screen address runs through northwest England. Clayface filmed around Liverpool and at Stockport Plaza, turning real streets, public buildings and an old cinema into parts of its fictional city. The production’s most interesting trick may be how much character those places already had before the signs and props arrived. DC lists the James…
Ben Affleck and Steven Yeun took a fictional mayoral campaign to the Original Farmers Market in Los Angeles, filming amid its busy food stalls. Animals was filmed in and around Los Angeles, the same city in which its kidnapping story takes place. Affleck directs and plays Mark Kimball, a candidate for mayor whose son is…
Lifetime’s A Doctor to Die For: The Sarah Harris Story follows Sarah’s relationship with an older medical professional and the mother and sister who seek answers when tragedy strikes. Siobhan Williams plays Sarah, opposite Luke Macfarlane as Dr. James Ryan. Directed by Siobhan Devine and written by Barbara Marshall, the drama comes from Rohm Feifer…
