Four stories about control slipping away: a psychiatrist pulled into illegal CIA experiments, a politician trying to survive a public scandal, a steelworker hunting for his brother in a collapsing industrial town, and a privileged New Yorker discovering that charm is not the same thing as adulthood.
Set during the CIA’s early-1960s MKULTRA experiments, a psychiatrist is recruited to run a secret LSD program inside a rural Mississippi mental hospital. The movie turns scientific ambition into a paranoid ethics test, asking what happens when state power treats human beings like lab equipment.
In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, a Louisiana congressman tries to fight for Gulf Coast residents before a sex scandal wrecks his Senate ambitions. Nicolas Cage plays the politician as a man caught between public service, private weakness, and the compromises that turn conviction into calculation.
A steelworker in a fading Pennsylvania mill town tries to hold his family together after prison, only to watch his younger brother disappear into bare-knuckle fights and violent debt. It is a grim, slow-burn revenge story about loyalty, economic ruin, and how grief can harden into a weapon.
A forty-year-old heir gets cut off by his parents, moves in with an old friend, and immediately falls for that friend’s girlfriend. Under the polished Manhattan comedy is a sharper question about privilege, self-invention, and whether a person can grow up after spending a lifetime insulated from consequences.
Darializa Avila Chevalier joins the stream to talk about her campaign for Congress in NY-13 before heading to an amazing Middle Eastern restaurant to try some of their best dishes.
This is a good way to get a feel for her campaign, her message, and why this race is worth paying attention to.
Four films about people under pressure: an interrogation that turns ordinary questions into a trap, a cab ride that becomes a confession booth, a gambling trip built on hope and self-destruction, and a poker empire that attracts the wrong kind of attention.
Based on the real FBI interview transcript of Reality Winner, this stripped-down drama follows a young intelligence contractor as agents arrive at her home and a polite conversation tightens into something much more dangerous. The tension comes from how little the room seems to change while everything in her life does.
A woman lands at JFK and gets into a cab bound for Manhattan, where a late-night ride turns into a searching conversation with her driver about desire, regret, loneliness, and the stories people tell themselves. It is a small movie by design, built around two people slowly letting the silence get honest.
A broke gambler deep in debt latches onto a charismatic card player he sees as a good-luck charm, and the two head south toward a high-stakes game in New Orleans. The road trip moves through casinos, bars, and racetracks, but the real game is whether either man can outrun his own patterns.
After an Olympic-class skiing career ends, Molly Bloom builds one of the world’s most exclusive underground poker games, drawing celebrities, power players, and eventually federal investigators. The hook is the money, but the movie is really about control, reputation, and how a game can become a courtroom.
I’m endorsing Sam Forstag for Congress in Montana’s 1st District.
Sam is a smokejumper, union leader, and organizer, a working Montanan running to make Congress work for working people.
His campaign is focused on the basics: affordable housing, real healthcare, childcare and public education, public lands, fair taxes, strong unions, secure retirement, and getting money out of politics.
That is exactly the kind of Democrat we need more of: someone rooted in labor, public service, and the real cost-of-living crisis people are facing.
Unlike Ryan Zinke, Sam is not backed by billionaires and corporate PACs. He is building a people-powered campaign to take back MT‑01 for working families.
I’m proud to endorse Sam Forstag. Please donate, volunteer, and spread the word.
