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[TRAILER] Jim Jarmusch's film presents five stories, each involving a cab ride and set in a different city around the world. In Los Angeles, no-nonsense taxi driver Corky (Winona Ryder) gets an engaging customer in the form of a Hollywood casting agent (Gena Rowlands). In New York, streetwise YoYo (Giancarlo Esposito) finds his cabbie Helmut (Armin Mueller-Stahl) knows precious little about how to actually drive. In Paris, a cabbie (Isaach de Bankolé) spars with a blind customer (Béatrice Dalle). In Rome, quirky driver Gino (Roberto Benigni) makes a lively confession to an ailing priest (Paolo Bonacelli). And finally, in Helsinki, somber Mika (Matti Pellonpää) picks up three men headed home after a night of drinking their troubles away. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 1, 2024 - 13 comments

Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Aug 14, 2022 - 10 comments

Cassie is forced to work with a surprising new ally as she reconsiders all that's happened since Bangkok. Megan's life begins to implode when her husband faces consequences for her actions.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 11, 2020 - 8 comments

Reeling from a major fallout with Annie and running from anything related to Alex, Cassie brings Buckley along for an alcohol-fueled escapade. Megan embarks on a clandestine mission. Miranda continues to hunt Cassie.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 11, 2020 - 4 comments

With Miranda on her tail and the FBI closing in, Cassie enlists Max in a plan that involves breaking and entering. Annie is forced to repay an ominous favor to a client. Megan's secrets threaten to come to light.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 11, 2020 - 3 comments

After literally piecing together evidence from Alex's home, Cassie follows the paper trail to a private jet service while juggling a visit from her brother and his family, unearthing more of her unconventional childhood.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 3, 2020 - 2 comments

Returning from Rome to find someone has broken into her apartment, Cassie doubles down on finding Miranda - even if it means crashing Alex Sokolov's champagne-soaked memorial service at his family home.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 28, 2020 - 3 comments

Rattled by her own lies and under pressure from the FBI, Cassie goes against Annie's advice to lay low and tries to find some answers by digging into Alex Sokolov's work life - with bizarre and shocking results.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 28, 2020 - 1 comment

Following a one-night stand with a man named Alex Sokolov, flight attendant Cassandra Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) awakes to find him dead in the bed next to her, with no memory of the night before. She cleans up the room and tries to get back to the United States, but is haunted by hallucinations of the dead man, even as she tries to pretend that everything is alright. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 28, 2020 - 7 comments

A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 23, 2020 - 1 comment

After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord. (Note: I thought the title of this was "Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn" but according to IMDB it's not?)
posted by rednikki on Feb 6, 2020 - 38 comments

A film about friendship. A process server and his marijuana dealer are forced to flee from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after witnessing them commit a murder. The inspiration for making it was Floyd, Brad Pitt's character in True Romance. The Bees Knees Opening scene. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Apr 6, 2019 - 12 comments

Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. [more inside]
posted by zinon on Sep 4, 2018 - 5 comments