The Oscar-nominated drama from Jason Reitman taps into the anxieties of our precarious times and gives a voice to the victims of downsizing and those who have kept afloat be remaining completely untethered.
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Departed’ on HBO Max
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson star in Scorsese’s 2006 return to American urban crime cinema, which became the biggest hit of his career and earned him his first Academy Award for Best Director.
Watch This! Clive Owen’s The Driver is back for ‘The Escape’
Back in the early 2000s, in the days before YouTube made viral video commonplace, BMW sponsored a series of short promotional films disguised as mini action movies. That made them so much fun was that the directors who participated—John Frankenheimer, Tony Scott, Guy Ritchie, Joe Carnahan, Wong Kar-wai, and (at the time) future Oscar winners […]
‘Bates Motel’ – Season 3 open for business on Netflix
Bates Motel: Season 3 continues the story of Norman Bates: the early years. The “prequel” story to Psycho, about the teenage Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his mother Norma (Vera Farmiga), takes Norman from awkward high school boy to psychologically troubled kid with murderous blackouts and hallucinations that blossoms into a full-blown split personality. Along […]