Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Ricki Rendazzo (Streep, The Giver) is the lead singer of the house cover band at a small bar in Tarzana, California. It’s not enough to pay the bills these days, so during the day, she can...
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A Better You (2014)
Dr. Ron Knight (Huskey) is a Los Angeles hypnotherapist who sees clients in his home, trying, often to little avail, to put his patients under and hopes that suggestion can cure their vices when they...
Dead Again (1991)
Dead Again is a tale of love in two eras, or one love that never dies, even though its participants are doomed. Most of the film is set in the modern day, where a Los...
Stretch (2014)
Joe Carnahan is a director with talent for action, grit, and thrills in movies like Narc and The Grey, but if there’s anything we’ve learned from watching such efforts as Blood Guts Bullets & Octane, Smokin’ Aces, and The A-Team, it’s...
About Last Night (2014)
About Last Night is a remake of a quaint but mostly forgotten romantic comedy-drama from 1986, which itself is a loose interpretation of a David Mamet stage play from the 1970s, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” This...
Her (2013)
Set in Los Angeles in the near future, Her is Spike Jonze’s science fiction-comedy-romance-drama satire which follows a lonely, separated man named Theodore Twombly (Phoenix, The Master), who spends his days working as a writer of “heartfelt”...
End of Watch (2012)
Written and directed by David Ayer (Street Kings, SWAT), the filmmaker with a special interest in the workings of the Los Angeles PD, the city where he was raised, in End of Watch, he has directed his...
Less Than Zero (1987)
Andrew McCarthy (Mannequin, Pretty in Pink) stars as Clay, the only one of three close childhood friends who leaves Beverly Hills in order to go to college. Left behind is his aspiring model girlfriend Blair...
Double Dragon (1994)
The futuristic video game brawler known as “Double Dragon” was, for a period of time, the number-one coin-operated game in America. It was created by the Japanese game company Technos in 1987 and became...
Dragnet (1987)
As with so many movies that would be written and starring SNL alums, Dragnet is a case of an amusing sketch comedy idea dragged out beyond its ability to truly entertain in a feature film. ...