Maddie Ziegler leads a group of bickering ballerinas (Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, and Avantika) overseas for a recital who become trapped in a house full of Hungarian mobsters where they witness the murder of their instructor (Lydia Leonard) and find themselves hunted. In order to survive, the dysfunctional group will have to put their petty squabbles aside and use their dance moves with quite literally lethal efficiency.
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You don’t watch Vampyros Lesbos for the plot, but that doesn’t mean the 1971 erotic horror doesn’t hold some surprises. Shot in Turkey (making great use of interesting locales, set dressing, and lighting), and filmed in German by Spaniard Jesús Franco Manera, the film has a vibe and feel far more memorable than one might expect.
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Writer/director BenDavid Grabinski‘s Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a crime comedy with a sci-fi twist. On the night of Sosa’s (Keith David) son Jimmy Boy (Jimmy Tatro) being released from prison, Quick Draw Mike (James Marsden) learns that he’s been set up as the snitch responsible for Jimmy Boy’s prison stint and now is marked for death. The person who framed him is Mike’s longtime partner in crime Nick (Vince Vaughn) whose wife Alice (Eiza González) Mike has been sleeping with. However, there is some good news as someone has arrived to help save Mike. The problem? It’s also Nick.
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Throwing together Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa, The Wrecking Crew is your basic odd-couple buddy action-comedy with the two cast as reunited half-brothers working to solve their father’s murder (which local officials are all too eager to write off as a traffic accident. Bautista is the straight-laced Navy SEAL with Momoa being the suspended police detective known for coloring outside the lines and getting into trouble.
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Valet is an odd film for a romantic comedy. Rather than having two people fall head-over-heels for each other, the 2022 film is about how the time two strangers spend together teaches each of them to stay away from the people that are wrong for them. We start, not surprisingly, with a contrived situation in which, to protect her secret tryst with a married man (Max Greenfield), Olivia (Samara Weaving) convinces a valet named Antonio (Eugenio Derbez) to pretend to be the starlet’s new boyfriend in hopes of putting the paparazzi off the real story.
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