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The Insidious franchise is leaving the Lambert family behind, but it certainly has not finished with The Further. Directed by Jacob Chase, Insidious: Out of the Further introduces Gemma, played by Amelia Eve, a young mother raising her daughter in the house where she grew up. Gemma discovers that she can enter The Further, the…
Olivia Wilde’s The Invite turns an ordinary dinner invitation into an increasingly uncomfortable examination of marriage, sex and the private resentments couples learn to hide. Seth Rogen and Wilde play Joe and Angela, a San Francisco couple whose relationship has settled into near-constant friction, while Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton play their seemingly more adventurous…
Getting a beloved 1990s boy band back together sounds like a strong television stunt. For Kaitlin Thompson, it is also the idea that could finally earn her a promotion. Hallmark’s Absolutely Devoted to You follows the ambitious morning-show producer as she tries to reunite the fictional group Absolutely Yeah! for a summer beach event. Three…
Anthony Bourdain eventually became a chef, writer and traveler who seemed incapable of staying in one place for long, but Tony is interested in the period before all of that. Matt Johnson’s A24 film follows a 19-year-old Bourdain during a formative summer in Provincetown, when he arrives on Cape Cod without much direction and stumbles…
2 Hearts looks, at first, like two separate romances unfolding at different points in time. College freshman Chris meets Sam and begins imagining a future he had not expected, while years earlier, Jorge, a Cuban exile living with a serious lung condition, falls for flight attendant Leslie. Lance Hool’s romantic drama gradually reveals why those…
A marriage that once felt completely secure becomes the most frightening uncertainty in The Him I Knew. The Lifetime psychological thriller follows Melony and Luke Taylor, a married couple whose seemingly settled life is shattered when they survive a violent attack inside their home. The physical danger passes, but something more disturbing takes its place.…
David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street begins with an aggressively ordinary American neighborhood. Greg and Denise Platt are raising their children, Audrey and Brian, in the kind of quiet suburb where garages, driveways and trimmed lawns hardly seem capable of hiding anything extraordinary. Then a mysterious cosmic event tears Oak Street away from…
There is something immediately unsettling about a house refusing to behave like a house. In Netflix’s The Last House, a suburban family’s safest space abruptly becomes a prison. Jason and Ann wake to find every normal route outside useless, the doors will not open, the windows cannot be broken, and the strange rain falling across…
Evil Dead Burn does not need a sprawling map of locations to make its world frightening. Like the best entries in Sam Raimi’s horror franchise, Sébastien Vaniček’s film understands the value of trapping people somewhere they cannot easily escape. The sixth Evil Dead movie centers on Alice (Souheila Yacoub), who joins the troubled Price family…
Super Troopers 3 gives Broken Lizard’s highway patrolmen a problem even Farva cannot bluff his way through. Farva is preparing to marry Thorny’s sister, turning a strained family gathering into an extravagant Indian wedding. Thorny wants the relationship stopped, while the troopers become tangled in another drug-smuggling case. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, the comedy reunites…
Solo Mio makes a clever bargain with its audience. Matt Taylor’s romantic catastrophe is invented, but the Italy surrounding him is very real. The churches, cafe tables, public gardens and Tuscan countryside were not recreated on a Los Angeles soundstage. Kevin James and the Kinnane brothers took the production to Rome, then allowed the city…
One Night Only takes the familiar “two strangers, one impossible night” rom-com setup and gives it a mischievous dystopian rule. In Will Gluck’s movie, premarital sex is illegal except during a single annual window, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monica Barbaro plays hopeful romantic Allie, while Callum Turner is Owen, a recently dumped man…
