Atomic Fangirl

I thought Loving was an absolutely amazing film.  But obviously that’s not the only story about a couple fighting for their right to be together.  And with A United Kingdom, we get a look at what it was like across the sea in the 1940s. Synopsis!

A UNITED KINGDOM is the true story of the forbidden love of King Seretse Khama of Botswana (David Oyelowo) and Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), a white woman from London, which caused an international uproar when they decided to marry in the late 1940’s just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa. It was a decision that altered the course of African history.

With Oyelowo and Pike in the lead roles, and directed by Amma Asante (Belle), I’m in.  Are you?  Then c’mon! Continue reading →

Meet y’all out behind the portables – I’ve got passes for the Baltimore area screening of Fist Fight!  Synopsis!

Ice Cube (“Barbershop: The Next Cut,” the “Ride Along” movies) and Charlie Day (“Horrible Bosses,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) star as high school teachers prepared to solve their differences the hard way in the comedy “Fist Fight,” directed by Richie Keen (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”). On the last day of the school year, mild-mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Day) is trying his best to keep it together amidst outrageous senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that are putting his job on the line just as his wife is expecting their second baby. But things go from bad to worse when Campbell crosses the school’s toughest and most feared teacher, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), causing Strickland to be fired.  To Campbell’s shock—not to mention utter terror—Strickland responds by challenging him to a fist fight after school.  News of the fight spreads like wildfire as Campbell takes ever more desperate measures to avoid getting the crap beaten out of him.  But if he actually shows up and throws down, it may end up being the very thing this school, and Andy Campbell, needed.

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I’ve seen this trailer, and it looks very creepy (in a good way.)  That, and it’s been getting all sorts of good buzz at film fests…so let’s Get Out, shall we?  Synopsis!

A young black man visits his white girlfriend’s diverse family estate only to learn that many of its black residents have gone missing, and the horrible truth when another frantic African-American warns him to “get out.” It becomes clear that this is easier said than done.

Ready to see what’s really going on on that estate?  Well, right this way… Continue reading →

Got the flu?  Yeah, that’s a bad one right now.  Chicken soup and Netflix, stat! But maybe you’re fit as a fiddle and ready for some spooky? Well then, I’ve got just the cure for you.  Passes for A Cure For Wellness, in fact.  (No, it’s a great segue.  What?)  Synopsis!

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious “wellness center” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa’s miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure. From Gore Verbinski, the visionary director of THE RING, comes the new psychological thriller, A CURE FOR WELLNESS.

It looks creepy in a good way.  With me?  C’mon!

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