77% (3)  Queen of Earth  90 min,  Not Rated,  [Drama, Thriller]  [Alex Ross Perry]  [26 Aug 2015]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 63%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 93%,   Metacritic: 77%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win & 3 nominations.
Actors:  Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Kentucker Audley, Patrick Fugit
Writer:  Alex Ross Perry
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Two women go away together. One meets a man that distracts her from being there for her friend. The betrayed friend says, "One day you will need me, and then I won't be there for you." When they next go away together the roles are reversed, the threat becomes reality. But the two situations are not exactly the same - the man in the first scenario was benign, the man in the second scenario is toxic. That and other differences displace the parallel between the two events.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Catherine has entered a particularly dark period in her life: her father, a famous artist whose affairs she managed, has recently died, and on the heels of his death she's dumped by her boyfriend James. Looking to recuperate, Catherine heads out to her best friend Virginia's lake house for some much needed relaxation. However, once Catherine arrives relaxation proves impossible to find, as she is overcome with memories of time spent at the same house with James the year before. As Catherine reaches out to Virginia with attempts at connection, Virginia begins spending increasing amounts of time with a local love interest, Rich, and fissures in the relationship between the two women begin to appear, sending Catherine into a downward spiral of delusion and madness.
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73% (3)  Inherent Vice  148 min,  R,  [Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance]  [Paul Thomas Anderson]  [09 Jan 2015]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 73%,   Metacritic: 81%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 93 nominations.
Actors:  Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Jordan Christian Hearn, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson
Writer:  Paul Thomas Anderson (written for the screen by), Thomas Pynchon (based on the novel by)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Japanese    Country:  USA
Plot:  During the psychedelic 60s and 70s Larry "Doc" Sportello is surprised by his former girlfriend and her plot for her billionaire boyfriend, his wife, and her boyfriend. A plan for kidnapping gets shaken up by the oddball characters entangled in this groovy kidnapping romp based upon the novel by Thomas Pynchon.
Rotten Tomatoes:   "Inherent Vice," is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. When private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin...well, easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic `60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," that's being way too overused - except this one usually leads to trouble. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon. (C) Warner Bros
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71% (3)  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them  133 min,  PG-13,  [Adventure, Family, Fantasy]  [David Yates]  [18 Nov 2016]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 73%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 74%,   Metacritic: 66%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Won 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 51 nominations.
Actors:  Alison Sudol, Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Sam Redford, Scott Goldman, Tim Bentinck
Writer:  J.K. Rowling
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Khmer    Country:  UK, USA
Plot:  Holding a mysterious leather suitcase in his hand, Newt Scamander, a young activist wizard from England, visits New York while he is on his way to Arizona. Inside his expanding suitcase hides a wide array of diverse, magical creatures that exist among us, ranging from tiny, twig-like ones, to majestic and humongous ones. It is the middle of the 20s and times are troubled since the already fragile equilibrium of secrecy between the unseen world of wizards and the ordinary or "No-Maj" people that the MACUSA Congress struggles to maintain, is at risk of being unsettled. In the meantime, the voices against wizardry keep growing with daily protests led by Mary Lou Barebone and fuelled by the increasing disasters ascribed to a dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald. At the same time, by a twist of fate, Newt's precious suitcase will be switched with the identical one of an aspiring No-Maj baker, Jacob Kowalski, while demoted Auror, Tina Goldstein, arrests Newt for being an unregistered wizard. To make matters worse, with the suitcase in the wrong hands, several creatures manage to escape to unknown directions. Before long, this situation will catch Senior Auror Percival Graves' attention who will target both Tina and Newt amid panic caused by an invisible, devastating and utterly unpredictable menace that still wreaks havoc in New York's 5th Avenue. Is there a hidden agenda behind Graves' intentions and ultimately, what will happen to the remaining magical creatures still loose in the streets?
Rotten Tomatoes:   This spin-off of the Harry Potter franchise jumps back in time to explore the wizarding world of 1926 New York, which is being threatened by both mystical acts of destruction and a group of extremist No-Majs (the American term for Muggles, i.e. those unable to use magic). Author Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives in the city as part of a global study of fantastic beasts, but he gets caught up in this conflict when some of the magical creatures in his care are accidentally released. Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Ezra Miller, and Johnny Depp co-star in this fantasy adventure, which was directed by David Yates (who helmed four of the Harry Potter films) and adapted for the screen by J.K. Rowling from her own book.
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64% (3)  Alien: Covenant  122 min,  R,  [Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller]  [Ridley Scott]  [19 May 2017]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 64%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 65%,   Metacritic: 65%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win & 12 nominations.
Actors:  Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender
Writer:  Dan O'Bannon (based on characters created by), Ronald Shusett (based on characters created by), Jack Paglen (story by), Michael Green (story by), John Logan (screenplay by), Dante Harper (screenplay by)
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA, UK
Plot:  The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape
Rotten Tomatoes:   Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.
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