Movie Recaps

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. Movie: The Reader (2008)

In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. Movie: Waterworld (1995)

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason. Movie: Holes (2003)

What happens when an epidemic breaks out, but you're kept in the dark? Anything can happen. Slowly the residents realize that they will all die unless they come together. Movie: Containment (2015)

At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse. Movie: After the Dark (2013)

An obsessive CEO of a company meets a ragged chef by chance. They are drawn closer together because of their love for delicacies, yet their personalities clash big time. Movie: This Is Not What I Expected (2017)

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Movie: Blindness (2008)

Lucius, a Roman architect, is transported through time to modern-day Japan, where he learns about Japanese bathhouses and uses this to his gain back home. Movie: Thermae Romae (2012)

A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. Movie: My Cousin Rachel (2017)

The Manzoni family, a notorious Mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France, under the Witness Protection Program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard. Movie: The Family (2013)

Former MI6 spies Emily and Matt are pulled back into espionage after their secret identities are exposed. Movie: Back in Action (2025)

Cop Jack Stone robs a Russian mob bank to end in the same prison as the mob boss killing Jack's wife. An inmate helps him as does a reporter. Lots of fights. Movie: Riot (2015)

When his daughter is brutally murdered and legal justice seems unlikely, William Duncan takes the law into his own hands and sets out on a quest for retribution. Movie: Vendetta (2022)

Greg Heffley is a 12 year old who is fresh out of elementary and transitions to middle school, where he has to learn the consequences and responsibility to survive the year. Movie: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)

A down-on-his-luck chef with gambling problems flees to a Latin American villa, where he assumes the identity of another man. Movie: What You Wish For (2023)

American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. Movie: Ford v Ferrari (2019)

The story of a socially invisible high school senior who, after slipping up and getting the school's biggest bully suspended, realizes he may only have two weeks left to experience everything he's ever missed out on. Movie: Sid Is Dead (2023)

After meeting a mysterious stranger, a man must escape a dystopian world to return to his wife. Movie: The Shift (2023)

In the weeks following an apocalyptic event, a husband and wife venture across the countryside inhabited by deadly factions in search of safety, and must work together as they are pushed to the breaking point in order to survive. Movie: The Domestics (2018)

A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder. Movie: The Northman (2022)