A young single dad is on a mission in the film Nowhere Special. With a terminal illness and no family to turn to, he's searching for the perfect adoptive family for his four-year-old son.
Three superb actors — Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor — star in this sweaty, sexy, entertaining drama about tennis stars with a very complicated past.
https://npr.org/2024/04/26/1247149132/challenges-review-zendaya-tennis
The terrific new film Challengers is about being intense about tennis, sex, and competition. Directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film stars Zendaya as Tashi, a tennis coach and object of desire to t...
Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor star in Luca Guadagnino's Challengers, a romantic, tennis-centered screwball dramedy.
It's easy to notice when a sex scene is bad. But what makes a sex scene good? Today, we are recommending films with good sex scenes, including Bound, Love & Basketball, Magic Mike's Last Dance, a...
https://npr.org/2024/04/25/1197964002/what-makes-a-good-sex-scene
A gently poetic coming-of-age story, We Grown Now chronicles an adolescent friendship in Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project in the early 1990s.
This wildly original adaptation of the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle follows human alienation and anxiety, asking why, in every era, we disengage from life and the people around us.
https://npr.org/2024/04/18/1245330235/the-beast-review-bertrand-bonello-henry-james
In the streaming era it can be hard to keep track of all the new docs and docuseries. We recommend checking out: What Jennifer Did, Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion and The Synanon Fix...
https://npr.org/2024/04/14/1244355654/what-to-watch-documentary-netflix-hbo-max
Alex Garland's dystopian thriller Civil War depicts a current-day, less-than-united states of America in which journalists are scrambling to get to the White House before rebel factions do.
This ambitious thriller comes across as an empty stunt — a democracy dystopia that sidesteps the politics of the present moment. But Kirsten Dunst is excellent as a battle scarred photojournali...
https://npr.org/2024/04/12/1244092650/civil-war-review-kirsten-dunst