A FAMILY AFFAIR (2024)

 

Directed By: Richard LaGravenese

Written By: Carrie Solomon

Cinematography: Don Burgess 

Editor: Melissa Bretherton 

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King, Kathy Bates, Sherry Cola, Liza Koshy, Sarah Baskin, Olivia Macklin, Wes Jetton, Ian Gregg 

An unexpected romance triggers comic consequences for a young woman, her mother, and her boss, grappling with the complications of love, sex, and identity.

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM (2023)

 

Directed By: James Wan

Written By: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick

Story By: James Wan, Jason Momoa, and Thomas Pa’a Sibbert

Based on the character AQUAMAN created By: Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger 

Cinematography: Don Burgess

Editor: Kirk Morris

Cast: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Amber Heard, Randall Park, Nicole Kidman, Temuera Morrison, Dolph Lundgren, Martin Short, Indya Moore, John Rhys-Davies, Jani Zhao, Pilou Asbaek 

Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.

BEING THE RICARDOS (2021)

 

Written & Directed By: Aaron Sorkin  Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth Editor: Alan Baumgarten

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jake Lacy, Linda Lavin, Ronny Cox, Clark Gregg, Nelson Franklin 

September 6, 1953. With Hollywood facing the ever-present threat of Joseph McCarthy's smear campaign, Lucille Ball, America's beloved redhead and star of the tremendously popular CBS sitcom I Love Lucy , finds herself confronted with the Red Scare hysteria. As the American columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell drops a bombshell at the end of his broadcast, Lucille and her Cuban-American actor husband Desi Arnaz must survive one long, overwhelmingly eventful week, as if navigating a rocky marriage wasn't enough. As a result, in the following seven distressful days, scandalous gossip and ongoing infidelity will put the couple's relationship to the test.

BATMAN FOREVER (1995)

Directed By: Joel Schumacher 

Based On Characters Created By: Bob Kane 

Story By: Lee Batchler & Janet Scott Batchler 

Written By: Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler & Akiva Goldsman 

Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt

Editor: Mark Steven & Dennis Virkler 

Cast: Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, Chris O’Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Debi Mazar, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Rene Auberjonois, Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Michael Patrick Chan, George Wallace, Joe Grifasi, Kimberly Scott, Bob Zmuda, Jessica Tuck

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.

DESTROYER (2018)

Directed By: Karyn Kusama 
Written By: Phil Hay & Matt Manfredi 
Cinematography: Julie Kirkwood 
Editor: Plummy Tucker 


Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Bradley Whitford, Tatiana Maslany, Toby Kebbell, Toby Huss, Scoot McNairy, James Jordan, Beau Knapp, Jade Pettyjohn 


The film follows the moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past

AQUAMAN (2018)

Directed By: James Wan 
Written By: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick & Will Beall 
Story By: Geoff Johns, Will Beall & James Wan 
Based On The Character “Aquaman: Created By: Paul Norris & Mort Wesinger 
Cinematography By: Don Burgess 
Editor: Kirk Morri 

Cast: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lungdren, Yahya Abdul-Manteen II, Temeura Morrison, Leigh Whannell, Michael Beach, Randall Park 


Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and be a hero to the world.

THE STEPFORD WIVES (2004)

Directed By: Frank Oz 
Written By: Paul Rudnick 
Based On The Book By: Ira Levin 
Cinematography By: Rob Hahn 
Editor: Jay Rabinowitz 


Cast: Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Roger Bart, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Faith Hill, Matt Malloy, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Kadee Strickland 


Joanna Eberhart, a wildly successful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events, suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class, and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the acerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a Jewish writer who's also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful and, somehow... doomed. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out?

MARGOT AT THE WEDDING (2007)

Written & Directed By: Noah Baumbach 
Cinematography By: Harris Savides 
Editor: Carol Littleton 


Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Halley Feiffer, John Turturro, Cirian Hinds, Zane Pais, Seth Barrish, Flora Closs, Michael Cullen 

 A slice of family life: sisters, husbands, children, history, secrets, jealousies. Margot and her teen son, Claude, travel from Manhattan to her family's Long Island home, occupied by sister Pauline, Pauline's daughter, and Malcolm, the slacker Pauline will marry outdoors that week under a tree neighbors want removed. Backbiting marks family discussion, particularly between the sisters and in Margot's cutting remarks to Claude. Pauline tells Margot a secret that Margot promptly tells Claude. Margot dislikes Malcolm and undermines him. She also has marital problems and a lover nearby. People are cruel, inside and outside their families. Is there a refuge for Margot or for Pauline?

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES (2018)

Directed By: John Cameron Mitchell 
Written By: John Cameron Mitchell & Philippa Goslett 
Based on the Short Story Written By: Neil Gaiman 
Cinematography By: Frank G. DeMarco 
Editor: Brian A. Kates 


Cast: Alex Sharp, Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, Matt Lucas, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Brooke, Stephanie Hazel 

Suburban London in the late 70s. Under the spell of the Sex Pistols, every teenager in the country wants to be a punk, including our hopeless hero Enn. Hearing the local punk Queen Boadicea is throwing a party, Enn crashes the fun and discovers every horny boy's dream; gorgeous foreign exchange students. When he meets the enigmatic Zan, it's lust at first sight. But these girls have come a lot further than America. They are, in fact, aliens from another galaxy, sent to Earth to prepare for a mysterious rite of passage. When the dark secret behind the rite is revealed, our galaxy-crossed lover Enn must turn to Boadicea and her punk followers for help in order to save the alien he loves from certain death. The punks take on the aliens on the streets of London, and neither Enn nor Zan's universe will ever be the same again.

THE BEGUILED (2017)

Written & Directed By: Sofia Coopola 
Based On The Novel By: Thomas Cullinan 
Based On the Screenplay by: Grimes Grice & Albert Maltz 
Cinematography By: Philippe Le Sourd 
Editor: Sarah Flack 
Music By: Phoenix 


Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice 


Three years into the senseless American Civil War, in 1864, the dilapidated mansion of Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies is still running, occupied by the matriarch, a teacher and five students in Spanish moss-draped Virginia. However, when a young student stumbles upon Corporal John McBurney, a wounded Union deserter on the verge of death, the already frail balance of things will be disrupted, as the hesitant headmistress decides to take him in to heal from his injury. Little by little, as the unwelcome guest arouses an uneasy sexual excitation among the women of the secluded boarding school, it is not before long that they will find themselves competing for the alluring man's favour. Undoubtedly, this handsome devil is a manipulator, nevertheless, will the ladies stay forever beguiled by his charm?

LION (2016)

Directed By: Garth Davis 
Written By: Luke Davies 
Based on the Book “A LONG WAY HOME” By: Saroo Brierley 
Cinematography By: Greig Fraser 
Editor: Alexandre De Franceschi 

Cast: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Sunny Pawar, David Wenham, Divian Ladwa 


In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adopted by the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love that he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds.

THE FAMILY FANG (2016)

Directed By: Jason Bateman 
Written By: David Lindsay-Abaire 
Based On The book By: Kevin Wilson 
Cinematography By: Ken Seng 
Editor: Robert Frazen 


Cast: Jason Bateman, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken, Kathryn Hahn, Marin Ireland, Harris Yulin, Josh Pais, Michael Chernus, Danny Burnstein, Steve Barrish, Steve Witting

FLIRTING (1991)

Directed & Written By: John Duigan 
Cinematography By: Geoff Burton 
Editor: Liz Mullinar

Cast: Noah Taylor, Nicole Kidman, Thandie Newton, Naomi Watts, Kym Wilson 

JUST GO WITH IT (2011)

Directed By: Dennis Dugan 
Written By: Allan Loeb & Timothy Dowling 
Based On The Screenplay “Cactus Flower” By I.A.L. Diamond 
Based on the stage play By: Abe Burrows 
Based on the French Play by: Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Gredy 
Cinematography By: Theo Van De Sande 
Editor: Tom Costain 

Cast: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker, Kevin Nealon, Nicole Kidman, Dave Matthews, Rachel Dratch, Minka Kelly, Keegan-Michael Key, Mario Joyner, Heidi Montag, Andy Roddick, Peter Dante, Jonathan Loughran, Lori Huering

THE PAPERBOY (2012)

Directed By: Lee Daniels 
Written By: Lee Daniels & Pete Dexter 
Based On The Book By: Pete Dexter 
Cinematography By: Roberto Schaefer 
 Editor: Joe Klotz 

 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, John Cusack, Scott Glenn, Ned Bellamy

STOKER - VIDEO REVIEW

Directed By: Chan-Wook Park
Written By: Wentworth Miller
Cinematography By: Chung-Hoon Chung
Editor: Nicolas De Toth

Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermont Mulroney, Phyllis Somerville, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Til, Harmony Korine