As Charlie and Emma finalize their upcoming wedding details, their friends suggest a trust game where they reveal the worst thing they've ever done. When Emma's reveal turns into a confession from her troubled youth, this throws off everyone as relationships get reevaluated. While Emma is struggling to deal the repercussions of her friendships being shaken, Charlie's faith in the relationship is also shaken. Attempts to work through the complicated feelings only make all the other wedding stuff that must…

A year ago, I did a road trip to visit my brother and I got the audiobook of Project Hail Mary. It's a dense story, told from Ryland Grace's internal monolog, with lots of problem solving as he sciences his way out of each mystery. One of the main reasons I picked that book was that this movie was in production. I was really curious just how well the internal struggle that Grace faces would translate to screen. This film…

The underlining potential of fraud in the art world is always possible, especially when fame and reputation drive prices more than anything else. Ian McKellen is Julian Sklar, a celebrated painter whose fame goes all the way back to his childhood. Now in his golden years, living off the cash earned doing cameo videos for fans, he's stuck and hasn't painted anything meaningful in years. There is a series of portraits he made that he called The Christophers and there…

A loving tribute to the classic western with the modern twist. Bob Odenkirk is the new sheriff in a small town with a secret. He doesn't mean to sniff around, but the town is just so bad at hiding things. There is immediate clues that something is amiss when there is a lot more money in town than expected for a community that small. Derek Kolstad loves to write these stories with the secret criminal underbelly just right there, where…

Well, it's not far down to paradise
At least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
Oh, the canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me

It's not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
Oh, the canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me

Sailing
Takes me…