Focus Features has released the trailer for Eliza Hittman’s drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always. The film follows two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder), as they head to New York City to get an abortion for an unwanted pregnancy. The film, which premieres next month at the Sundance Film Festival, will be controversial because of its subject matter, but judging by the trailer, I like how Hittman is getting into the degrees of how difficult it is to get an abortion in this country. If you’re a wealthy liberal living …
There's no shortage of Lord of the Flies inspired stories in film and TV, but you'll rarely see one as strange, focused, and disquieting as Ladyworld. Set at a sleepover that quickly turns into a post-apocalypse tinged survival story, Ladyworld finds a gang of mismatched teenage girls rapidly devolving into factionalized psychos when they get trapped underground after a mysterious natural disaster. I caught the film during its festival tour at Fantastic Fest last year, where it was met with a bit of a divided response. It's a super psychologically draining film that seems targetted to …