Shirley
Shirley (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Netflix: After becoming the first Black woman elected to congress, Shirley Chisholm begins a trailblazing campaign for President of the United States.
Irish Wish
Irish Wish (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Netflix: When "the one that got away" gets engaged to her best friend, Maddie travels with them to Ireland to be a bridesmaid. After making a wish on an ancient stone, she wakes up as the bride-to-be and starts to wonder if this really is the life she wished for.
The American Society of Magical Negroes
The American Society of Magical Negroes (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Theaters: A young man is recruited into a secret magical organization that works to make white people feel comfortable in order to make Black people's lives safer.
Cabrini
Cabrini (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Theaters: In 1889 Catholic nun Frances Cabrini arrived in America from Italy with plans to establish an "empire of hope" in the form of hospitals and orphanages.
Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Theaters: A reclusive gym owner falls for a bodybuilder passing through town on her way to a competition, but her family's criminal past draws them both into a world of violence and revenge.
Imaginary
Imaginary (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Theaters: A woman returns to her childhood home with her daughter and finds her old imaginary friend is still there, and not happy to have been abandoned.
Spaceman
Spaceman (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Netflix: Six months into a solitary exploration mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut finds a creature that promises to help him with his emotional distress.
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Perfect Days
Perfect Days (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Theaters: Hirayama cleans public toilets for a living and spends his quiet evenings reading. Despite the narrowness of his life, he manages to find contentment.
Fitting In (2024)
Fitting In (2024) (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Theaters: After being diagnosed with an unusual gynecological condition, a teenager questions her identity and sexual expectations.
Mea Culpa
Mea Culpa (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Netflix: A criminal defence attorney takes on the case of an artist accused of killing his girlfriend. But when she finds herself drawn to his seductive personality, proving his innocence takes on a new level of importance.
Players
Players (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Netflix: A New York sportswriter and her friends spend their time devising "plays" for getting dates, but when she finds herself falling her her coworker, she's going to need the best play yet.
Five Blind Dates
Five Blind Dates (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Prime Video: Lia is feeling lost in life. Her business is struggling and she can't seem to meet any decent guys. But when a fortune teller tells her she will meet her soulmate on one of the next 5 dates she goes on, Lia is determined to make it happen.
Suncoast
Suncoast (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Hulu: A teenager meets an eccentric activist while helping her mother move her brother into a specialized medical facility. (This film is streaming on Disney+ outside of the USA.)
Upgraded
Upgraded (Movie Reviews, Last Update Oct 2024)
Prime Video: An ambitious art gallery intern gets upgraded to first class on a flight to London for an auction and meets a handsome young man who mistakes her for her boss. But one white lie turns into many more as her fib becomes the pathway for an opportunity.