Behold quite possibly the steamiest Dom-Sub relationship since The Fate of the Furious.
We're pleased to bring you the exclusive reveal of the first trailer for Lost Girls & Love Hotels. The new romantic drama/thriller stars Alexandra Daddario (True Detective) as a wayward American English teacher adrift in Japan who finds comfort (and more) in the arms of a Yakuza member (Takehiro Hira). How their tumultuous relationship plays out in the city streets of Tokyo is anyone's guess, but you can get a sense of it in the newly released trailer below. The upcoming film is based on screenwriter Catherine Hanrahan’s book of the same name, and is directed …
No one can see you ugly cry when you self-quarantine.
There's something oddly callow about Liz Garbus' adaptation of Robert Kolker's non-fiction book Lost Girls. Adaptation is always tricky, and Kolker's story tries to examine the larger consequences of a case surrounding the disappearances and deaths of five sex workers in Long Island. A movie, especially one that took the route of a feature adaptation rather than a docu-series, would have to find a way to focus its narrative, but Lost Girls always seems to miss the bigger picture. While it has an interesting angle about one mother's anger and determination to find out …
Netflix has released the trailer for their upcoming drama Lost Girls. Based on the true story of five sex workers who disappeared near Long Island, the story follows Mari Gilbert (Amy Ryan), who works to uncover what happened to her missing daughter, Shannan. This is one of my most-anticipated movies playing at Sundance this year because the hook here isn't just a matter of "solving" the case, but looking at the larger systemic issues that led to the disappearance of young women from white, working-class neighborhoods. I'm eager to see what director Liz Garbus (What Happened, …