The Go-Go's (2020)

Released on Showtime, airing January 24th in the US.

Filming location(s) unknown.

The story: 1979, Los Angeles.

The punk music scene was happening.

Five teenage girls were inspired by that music, the scene and wanted to start their own band.

Even if they couldn't play instruments or actually sing they made it their mission to write and perform their own music.

After struggling through rough gigs, the girls were noticed by a woman who knew that they had the potential to go places.

The Go-Go's new manager took them to England where once again, they roughed it through the gigs.

But they were performing gigs, no matter how bad they were.

The exposure and experience are all that mattered.

When they returned to America, after having released their first single while in England, they found they were an instant sensation.

After getting a recording deal, The Go-Go's were shot into the spotlight almost overnight.

But many behind the scenes factors became too much for the young, talented group to conquer and by their fourth album, they finally called it quits.

Stars Elissa Bello, Margot Olavarria, Charlotte Caffey, Jane Wiedlin, Pleasant Gehman, Ginger Canzoneri, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Lee Thompson, Lynval Golding, Kathleen Hanna, Kathy Valentine, Chris Connelly, Miles Copeland, Richard Gottehrer, Martha Quinn, Stewart Copeland

Directed by Alison Ellwood 

Rated TVMA

DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC

This Is the End (2013)

Released June 12th in the US.

Filmed in Louisiana and California.

The story: Jay Baruchel is a good friend of Seth Rogen who lives in L.A.

He has come for a long-awaited visit even though he despises L.A. and all it represents.

After reminiscing Seth talks Jay into going to James Franco's house warming party although Jay knows he will hate it.

Even worse than the party though is what begins happening all around them all.

It seems the world is ending...

Or maybe it's an alien invasion.

Either way, Jay and Seth get stuck inside James' house with a group of other actors just trying to survive.

Stars Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogan, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Emma Watson, Rihanna, Michael Cera, Mindy Kaling, Paul Rudd, Channing Tatum, Danny McBride, David Krumholtz

Directed by Evan Goldberg & Jonah Hill

Rated R
COMEDY

"It's not a competition because it all ends in death."

Cactus Flower (1969)

Released December 16th in the US.

Filmed entirely in New York.

The story: Toni Simmons is a young woman in love with Doctor Julian Winston.

When the doctor blows Toni off on their one year anniversary she cannot bare to not be with him and decides to end it all.

But her neighbor, who she's never met, saves her and the two become quick friends.

Worried about Toni, Julian visits her only to find that she no longer wants anything to do with him.

Considering he is in love with Toni and feels threatened he will finally lose her, he proposes to her.

But Toni wants to make sure that Julians' soon to be ex-wife is okay with that.

Problem is, even though he's been telling Toni he's married he isn't really.

Stars Goldie Hawn, Rick Lenz, Ingrid Bergman, Walter Matthau, Jack Weston, Irene Harvey, Mathew Saks, Irwin Charone, Eve Bruce, Vito Scotti 

Directed by Gene Saks

Rated M

COMEDY/DRAMA

Judy (2019)

Released October 4th in the US.
Filmed entirely in London.
Based on truths.
The story: It is the mid-60s, now divorced from Sid Luft, traveling from gig to gig with their two small children, Judy is doing her best to make ends meet.
But she currently has no place to call home for her family and cannot make the money to do so.
After a small paying American gig, Judy finds herself and children kicked out of the hotel they were staying at with no place to go.
They go to Sid's house who convinces the unwilling Judy the kids should stay with him.
Soon she finds herself doing gigs in London, which happens to be the only place she can get constant work.
All she wants to do is have a home to bring her children to.
But along the way of making her intentions become a reality, stresses, depression, drink, and prescription drug use make every effort seem useless.
Stars Darci Shaw, Natasha Powell, Richard Cordery, Renee Zellweger, Bella Ramsey, Lewin Lloyd, Rufus Sewell, Jessie Buckley, Gemma Leah Devereux, Finn Wittrock
Directed by Rupert Goold
Rated PG13
BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY/DRAMA

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

Released November 22nd in the US.
Filmed in Pennsylvania and New York.
Based on truths. 
The story: Lloyd Vogel is a journalist for Time magazine.
Back to work now after a short time off, Lloyd is used to doing small, forgettable stories, just enough to get him by.
Currently, there has been some hubbub about Mister Fred Rogers, the host of the popular children's television program.
Lloyd's boss wants him to write a small story on Fred, which Lloyd isn't sure he wants to do.
But after meeting Fred, watching him conduct his television show, meeting his wife and friends, and seeing how everyone he encounters he treats with love and respect,  Lloyd begins warming up to him.
He realizes that Fred is a genuine person who only has the best intentions for everyone he meets and this helps Lloyd along in his own personal journey, turning the two into very good friends.
Stars Matthew Rhys, Christine Lahti, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tom Hanks, Maryann Plunkett, Enrico Colantoni, Wendy Makkena, Chris Cooper, Tammy Blanchard, Noah Harpster, Carmen Cusack, Kelly Davis, Maddie Corman, Daniel Krell, Jon Peacock, Gavin Borders 
Directed by Marielle Heller
Rated PG
BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY/DRAMA

"10" (1979)

Released October 5th in the US.

Filmed in California and Mexico.

The story: Middle-aged composer George Webber is bored.

Bored with life and bored with his life.

He lives a really nice, privileged life and has everything anyone could ask for, even a loving girlfriend but all of that just isn't enough for George.

He believes he is surely missing out on something special.

While driving through town one day, George locks eyes with a beauty in a wedding dress, on the way to her wedding.
Now George cannot get her out of his head.

He goes to every length to find her and when he does, she isn't exactly what he expected.

Stars Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Don Calfa, Bo Derek, Nedra Volz, Dee Wallace, Robert Webber, Sam J Jones, Max Showalter, Rad Daly, James Noble, Virginia Kiser, John Hawker

Directed by (& story written) Blake Edwards

Not Rated 

COMEDY/DRAMA

The Final Girls (2015)

Released October 9th in the US.
Filmed in Louisiana and California.
The story: Three years ago Max lost her beloved mother to a tragic car accident.
Things haven't been the same with Max since that night.
On the anniversary of her mother's death there is an underground showing of the movie she starred in.
Max's friends stepbrother Duncan asks Max to make a special appearance at the showing but she isn't interested.
To get Max to do it, Duncan promises to do all and every of her future history assignments.
This is an idea Max cannot pass up.
At the movie now, just when the scene gets bloody that Max's mom is in, she decides to go out for some air.
At that very same moment, a fire breaks out in the theater, and Max and her friends scramble to escape.
Unbelievably enough, they find themselves trapped inside the very movie they were just watching and somehow must find their way back out...
Stars Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alia Shawkat, Nina Dobrev, Alexander Ludwig, Thomas Middleditch, Adam Devine, Angela Trimbur, Chloe Bridges, Lauren Gros, Reg Rob
Directed by Todd Strauss Schulson
Rated PG13
MYSTERY/THRILLER/COMEDY/FANTASY/HORROR