#MiddleburyCT #Movies
“Challengers” (R) – Director Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me by Your Name”) usually excels with critics and fails at the box office, but his latest release seems as if it has succeeded in both respects. This romantic-sports drama immediately had Gen Z swooning on TikTok, no doubt due to the incredible trio leading the film: Zendaya (“Dune: Part Two”), Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”) and Mike Faist (“West Side Story”). Zendaya portrays Tashi, a former tennis player turned coach, who now coaches her husband – tennis champion Art Donaldson (Faist). Although he’s struggling with an injury, Art just needs one more U.S. Open title to get a Career Grand Slam, so Tashi enters him in what seems to be a simple Challenger event. But when Art finds out his opponent is Patrick Zweig (O’Connor), his ex-best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend, Art realizes that this match might be the most important one of his life. Out now to rent. (Apple TV+)
“Spacey Unmasked” (TV-14) – A documentary detailing a mountain of allegations against disgraced actor Kevin Spacey has arrived, yet still, this might not be enough to keep Spacey out of Hollywood. The two-part docuseries, out now, includes interviews with 10 men who allege that Spacey sexually harassed them over the span of five decades. A completely different set of people from those whose cases have since been settled, these men worked alongside him in theaters in New York and London, met him in dodgy places like The Viper Room, and even knew him in high school. With so many individuals pinpointing the same atrocious behavior since the 1970s all the way to the 2010s, it’s astonishing that Spacey himself said this was “a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings.” The only desperate one here seems to be you, Spacey. (Max)
Miranda Cosgrove, left, and Brooke Shields star in “Mother of the Bride.” (Netflix photo)
“Mother of the Bride” (TV-PG) – Looks like it’s Comeback City for these handful of actors who decided to star in this cheesy, tropey rom-com out now. Starring Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove, Chad Michael Murray, and Benjamin Bratt, this film follows mom-and-daughter duo Emma (Cosgrove) and Lana (Shields), who are very close since the death of Emma’s father when she was 8. So, naturally, Emma shocks Lana with the news that she’s getting married in Phuket, Thailand, with her company footing the bill. (Must be nice.) But when they arrive in Thailand, Lana receives an even bigger shock when she realizes that the groom’s father is her college ex-boyfriend, Will (Bratt) – the same guy who smashed her heart into smithereens. What a totally unplanned coincidence that definitely isn’t going to make the movie completely unbelievable, right? Well, let’s hope this gets some better projects off the ground for these actors. (Netflix)
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