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Radioactive

Website: Amazon Prime

Synopsis: “From the 1870s through our 21st century, RADIOACTIVE tells the story of pioneering scientist Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike) through her extraordinary life and her enduring legacies – the passionate partnerships, her shining scientific breakthroughs, and the darker consequences that followed. In late 19th century Paris, Polish-born genius Marie Sklodowska met fellow scientist Pierre Curie (Sam Riley). The pair went on to fall in love, marry, raise two daughters — and change the face of science and our world forever as their work proved the existence of what Curie called “radioactivity.” In 1903, the pair jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery, making Marie the first woman to earn the esteemed prize. After the death of her beloved Pierre from a tragic accident in 1906, Marie’s commitment to science remained strong and her work ‘discovering’ and explaining previously unknown radioactive elements went on to win her a second Nobel Prize, even as it became terrifyingly evident that Curie’s work in radioactivity would lead to applications in medicine that could save lives by the thousands — or applications in warfare that could destroy them by the billions. RADIOACTIVE is a bold, visionary depiction of the life and loves of an extraordinary woman, as well as an unblinking look at the transformative effects and ensuing fallout of the Curie’s work and how the defining moments and bleakest fears of the 20th Century came from the Pandora’s Box of a small lab in Paris at the turn of the 19th century.”

Release Date: July 24, 2020
Directed by: Marjane Satrapi
Screenplay by: Lauren Redniss and Jack Thorne
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, and Anya Taylor-Joy
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Running Time: 109 minutes
Rated PG-13

The Rental

Website: The Rental

Synopsis: “Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, Jeremy Allen White and Sheila Vand star in this unnerving and sophisticated debut thriller from Dave Franco (NEIGHBORS, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, THE DISASTER ARTIST).”

Release Date: July 24, 2020
Directed by: Dave Franco
Screenplay by: Dave Franco and Joe Swanberg
Starring: Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White, and Toby Huss
Distributor: IFC Films
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Running Time: 89 minutes
Rated R