It's a star-making turn for the comedian, who's paired with Jack Quaid as her commitment-phobic counterpart, Ben. If you fell for Maya Erskine playing a version of her 13-year-old self on PEN15, you'll similarly adore her as Alice, an appealingly aggressive, newly single millennial.
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Luckily, the stars of Plus One are up to the task. No matter how clever a concept is, a rom-com needs actors who can carry it on a certain amount of charm. Why you should watch: Romantic comedies live and die on their performances. NEONĬast: Maya Erskine, Jack Quaid, Ed Begley Jr. Set to a swooning score by Emile Mosseri, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a tragedy about a dying city that pushes out the people who helped make it desirable in the first place. The film, directed by Joe Talbot, doesn't have much in the way of plot, choosing instead to lyrically chart Jimmie's connection to the neighborhood and the quickly changing city that surrounds it. His best friend - a playwright and artist named Montgomery Allen (Jonathan Majors) - usually accompanies him to keep a lookout. It doesn't matter that the place now technically belongs to two white gentrifiers Jimmie faithfully returns to it every day to perform the ritual of restoration. Why you should watch: In The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the character Jimmie Fails (played by the actor Jimmie Fails) lives for his obsession: fixing up a gorgeous old house he says used to belong to his family. For whatever reason, Paramount decided to under-promote this one, but it's actually a perfect summertime chiller: lean, mean, and fun as hell.Ĭast: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover The emotional beats feel perfunctory at best, but Haley and Dave's baggage comes in handy when the lizard threat mounts.
As this child-parent pair tries to escape rising waters and snapping jaws, director Alexandre Aja ramps up the tension with well-executed jump scares and just the right amount of gore. He's not at his apartment, but she does find him gravely injured in the basement of her childhood home with some scaly villains roaming around. Kaya Scodelario plays Haley, who drives into the eye of a big Florida storm to check in on her unresponsive dad Dave (Barry Pepper). The plot unfolds just as you'd expect, but in ways that nonetheless keep your pulse racing. It's a short, tight creature feature about a swimmer and her dad trapped in a crawl space with a bunch of hungry gators during a hurricane.
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Why you should watch: Crawl is a movie that gives you exactly what you want. Alita is a sensory overload, but it's often an exhilarating one. She also plays Motorball, which is like roller derby on steroids - there's a lot going on in this movie. As Alita begins to remember her previous life as a warrior, she's drawn deeper in to Iron City's brutal underbelly. Ido (Christoph Waltz), who brings her to the Iron City, a rough-and-tumble town in the shadow of the floating city of Zalem, clearly a nefarious place, though Iron City residents think of it as a paradise. Alita is found, bodiless, in a junkyard by robotic surgeon Dr. Sure, maybe it takes a little while to get used to the titular robot's enormous eyes, but Rosa Salazar's metaphorically wide-eyed performance shines through the CGI. So imagine the surprise when Alita: Battle Angel turned out to be a goofy joy filled with truly astonishing special effects. Why it's worth seeing: Hopes were low for the long-delayed anime adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez, co-written by none other than Avatar man himself, James Cameron. Cast: Rosa Salazar, Mahershala Ali, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly
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