Videoreleases
French Exit
Following the seizure of her assets after her husband’s untimely death in New York City, Frances Price (Pfeiffer), facing insolvency, takes solace in her best friend, Joan (Coyle), who offers the newly widowed Frances, her son, Malcom (Hedges), and the family cat, Small Frank, her empty apartment in Paris. Falling into a similar routine as the one she had in New York, Frances’ life is upturned by Madame Reynard (Mahaffey), a woman Frances has never met but with whom she shares many coincidental similarities.
Director: Azazel Jacobs. Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots, Danielle
Macdonald, Isaach De Bankole, Daniel di Tomasso. 2020. 113 mins. Comedy.
Godzilla vs. Kong
After Godzilla’s attack on Apex Cybernetics in Pensacola, Florida, home to Mark Russell (Chandler) and his daughter, Madison (Brown), Apex Cybernetics founder and CEO Walter
Simmons (Bichir) enlists Hollow Earth expert Nathan Lind (Skarsgard). His job is to lead an expedition to harness the power from the core of the earth to fuel a secret upcoming project — the covert production of the giant robot called Mechagodzilla. As Godzilla begins a reign of terror caused by the frequency of the sounds emitted from the production of Mechagodzilla, it becomes clear that Kong is the only one capable of stopping him.
Director: Adam Wingard. Stars: Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza Gonzalez, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler, Demian Bichir. 2021. 113 mins. Action.