Natalie Portman takes a cerebral sci-fi journey to explore self-destruction.
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Annihilation. Thriller/Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Violence. 89% satisfaction score on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac. It was written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later). The book describes a team of four women (a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor) who set out into an area known as Area X. The area is abandoned and cut off from the rest of civilization.[1] They are the 12th expedition. The other expeditions have been fraught with disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma. The novel won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel.
Game Night. Mystery. IMDB pro-rating 7.4 with an 86% satisfaction on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by John Francis Daley and Joanthan M. Goldstein. Screenplay by Mark Perez. Max and Annie’s weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max’s brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party — complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it’s all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night. Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams and Kylie Bunbury, star.
Every Day. Young Adult. Adapted from the best selling YA novel by David Levithan. Directed by Michael Sucsy, screenplay, Jesse Andrews. Sixteen-year-old Rhiannon falls in love with A, a mysterious spirit who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A try to find each other on a daily basis, always unsure of what or who the next day will bring. Soon, the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours starts to take its toll, leaving Rhiannon and A to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make. Lucas Jade Zumann, Angourie Rice, Debby Ryan, Colin Ford, star.
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