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There’s nothing shy about VANILLA. It doesn’t ease into its premise or whisper sweet nothings to the audience. This short comedy is loud, crass, proudly inappropriate, and knows exactly what it’s doing. It's the kind of film that looks you straight in the eye while getting undressed and dares you to look away. Self-awareness isn’t a side effect here—it’s baked into the entire experience. VANILLA thrives on confronting the audience with its blend of uncomfortable humor, kink-friendly roleplay, and relentless genre subversion. It’s not just a sex comedy—it’s a meta-kink carnival where the punchline is how far it's willing to go.

Curiosity, longing, and memory collide in this eerie, slow-burning drama that sidesteps the typical playbook for science fiction. Rather than spotlighting spaceships or elaborate mythology, the film roots itself in one woman’s obsessive desire to connect the past to the present, chasing not closure, but something closer to clarity. With an understated tone and a sharp focus on human behavior, this is less about what might be in the sky and more about what’s left unresolved here on Earth. I found it genuinely hypnotic; the multiple subplots somehow work in unison in a way I wasn’t expecting.

Set during the covert operations of the CIA’s secret air transport wing in 1969 Laos, AIR AMERICA blends high-octane action with comedy and more subversive commentary than it’s often credited with. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode, the film juggles war satire, buddy comedy antics, and government critique—sometimes with grace, with turbulence—but always anchored by the effortless chemistry between Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.

MADE IN NEW JERSEY: FILMS FROM FORT LEE isn’t just a collection—it’s a resurrection of sorts. Across two Blu-ray discs, Milestone Films/Kino Lorber curates 14 early short films and two documentaries that collectively remind viewers that the story of American cinema didn’t start in Hollywood—it began in the backlots of Fort Lee, New Jersey. Spanning over a century of history, the set provides a fascinating archival deep dive and a wildly entertaining survey of the earliest moving pictures.

THE PRESIDENT’S WIFE takes real events, real people, and a lot of satirical seasoning and whips up a political comedy that never pretends to be definitive. Directed by Léa Domenach in her feature debut, the film positions itself between affectionate character study and pointed send-up. Catherine Deneuve (one of my all-time favorite actors) anchors the experience as the titular Madame Chirac. The result is stylish and sharp, but it often feels more interested in one-liners than in unpacking the deeper ironies of power, gender, and public life.

In HANDSOME HARRY, a man’s life is interrupted by an unexpected request, and from that moment, the truth—long buried and conveniently distorted—begins to unravel. Directed by Bette Gordon, this deeply personal drama follows a Vietnam veteran reckoning with his past, not in pursuit of forgiveness, but to understand the cost of denying who you are and what you’ve done.

Sometimes the most terrifying threats aren’t lurking in the shadows—they’re waiting in plain sight, hidden in the wind, tremors in rock, and the psychological tension of a place no human was meant to be. That’s the gamble this horror thriller takes, placing the viewer high above the earth on a deadly climb and asking: what happens when the unknown joins you on the ascent?

A stillness to WOLF AND DOG speaks louder than most films with three times the dialogue. With its dreamlike textures and grounded sense of place, Cláudia Varejão’s narrative debut crafts an atmosphere where emotions boil beneath the surface until they shift the entire landscape. Set on the isolated island of São Miguel in the Azores, this queer coming-of-age drama is both tender and raw, full of contradictions that mirror the very forces shaping its characters’ lives.

Sometimes the scariest stories aren’t dystopian futures or imagined horrors—they’re pulled straight from our everyday reality. That’s the unsettling energy this film channels as it builds its world, brick by brick, out of a distinctly American story. It’s a movie that feels like it could have been overheard at a gas station or shared in the depths of an internet forum, yet it never leans too heavily into caricature. It walks a delicate line, dramatizing radicalization without outright condemning or glorifying it—and that’s where it gets its power and its controversy.

What starts as a promising exposé of a globally entrenched economic ideology stumbles not because it lacks substance, but because it struggles with how that substance is delivered. THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM outlines how a complex political and economic belief system took over a century and continues shaping everything from public policy to personal identity. At its core, the film raises critical questions about power, perception, and collective agency. But it’s hard to ignore the nagging contradiction at the heart of its visual presentation—a contradiction that ultimately undercuts its strongest arguments.

It doesn’t take long for GATE OF FLESH to make you feel like you’ve wandered into a world already lost to time, not just postwar Tokyo, but a fever dream where survival is dictated by how much you’re willing to give away. Hideo Gosha’s 1988 adaptation of Taijirō Tamura’s novel doesn’t just revisit the source material—it rips it open, covers it with 1980s grit, and dares you to look away. Forget the glamour of period accuracy. This version trades it for something messier, meaner, and emotionally unfiltered.

Reality television has always flirted with chaos, but this film doesn’t flirt—it leans into it and holds a mirror to our most voyeuristic impulses. What starts as a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of unscripted drama transforms into a character study about what happens when personal boundaries collapse under the pressure of public exposure. It's a film about blurred lines: between entertainment and exploitation, between performance and truth, and between who we think we are and who we become under the spotlight.

There’s a fine line between justice and vengeance, and LAW ABIDING CITIZEN ensures you feel every inch of it. More than a decade after its theatrical debut, this hard-hitting thriller still manages to stir debate—and thanks to Lionsgate’s new 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release, it looks and sounds sharper than ever.

What begins with clinical paperwork and a knock on the door becomes a story about resilience, control, and the strength buried in those who’ve been overlooked. This thriller isn’t about the flash—it’s about the fight that unfolds when the rules are used against the vulnerable, and how that fight doesn’t always come dressed in action tropes or speeches.

There’s something oddly satisfying about a film that knows it’s a little off the rails but moves forward anyway. That’s the curious energy pulsing through STEALING PULP FICTION—a scrappy heist comedy where ambition overshadows logic, and enthusiasm trumps expertise. It’s a knowingly disorganized story about people who adore cinema just enough to make the worst decisions possible. While not every aspect lands, there’s something enjoyable in watching it try.