Trigger warning: Suicide, grief
A grieving woman takes on the monumental task, quite literally, of accepting responsibility for her best friend’s bereaved Great Dane following his owner’s suicide, in The Friend, a touching and moving new film based on the novel of the same name by Sigrid Nunez.
A stroke sends an elderly judge to a nursing home, where he faces off against a sociopath in the new Shudder original featuring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow.
In Such a Pretty Girl, an utterly moving and quietly powerful short film, we’re treated to a simplistic and stunning story of a mother torn between her young child and aging father, a distinct line in the sand between generations, as she struggles to hold things together.
A writer brings in a colleague to help turn his book into a play but they eventually find themselves at an impasse when the colleague wants to make changes to one single page that the writer does not agree with.
What begins as the pursuit of excellence in a high-pressure sports academy soon unravels into an unsettling portrait of pressure, silence, and emotional repression.
George and Kathryn are married spies for the same British agency. When he discovers she might be a traitor, he sets up a sleek, smart, twisty game to reveal the truth.