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Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Hawke) is a frustrated genius, imagining a future no one seems interested in believing. Professionally and personally demeaned by his boss and intellectual rival, the high-powered Thomas Edison (Maclachlan), Tesla is ostracized by his peers and unable to find funding or support for his enormous, revolutionary ideas. From the alternating-current motor to the Tesla coil, the lonely engineer struggles to justify his very real, tangible inventions with his dismissed, unmoored day-to-day reality. However, with the help of occasional allies such as heiress Anne Morgan (Hewson), Tesla’s desire to gift the unthinkable to future generations proves unwavering as he chooses to walk an uneven, devastatingly difficult road for the rest of his scientific life.
Director: Michael Almereyda. Stars: Ethan Hawke, Kyle Maclachlan, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Hannah Gross, Josh Hamilton, Lucy Walters. 2020. 102 mins. Drama.
Archenemy
A teenager named Hamster (Brooks) meets Max Fist (Manganiello) in an alleyway. Drunk and disheveled, Max tells Hamster the tale of his life: how he came from a completely different dimension and lost the incredible superpowers that world granted him when he arrived in this reality. Although unsure of his claims, Hamster ends up teaming up with the supposed hero when local crime boss “The Manager” (Howerton) and his crew set out to settle the debts he and his sister, Indigo (Griggs), owe him.
Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer. Stars: Joe Manganiello, Skylan Brooks, Glenn Howerton, Zolee Griggs. 2020. 90 mins. Action.