HBO Max has released a trailer for UNpregnant, which I believe was the very first film made specifically for the nascent streaming service. Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen) stars as Veronica, a 17-year-old college-bound senior who gets pregnant, forcing her to make a tough decision about her future -- one she never imagined she'd have to make. Her choice leads her on a 900-mile road trip to New Mexico with her ex-BFF Bailey, played by Euphoria star Barbie Ferreira, and together they discover the true meaning, and value, of friendship. Rachel Lee Goldenberg …

Focus Features has released a new trailer for Eliza Hittman's drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always. The story follows two teenage girls, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and Skylar (Talia Ryder), as they travel from Pennsylvania to New York so that Autumn can get an abortion without her parents knowing about it (in Pennsylvania you need parental consent). This new trailer is filled with blurbs of critical acclaim and I agree with it. I caught the film at Sundance and was floored and devastated by it. In my review, I wrote: Hittman doesn’t need to get flashy or swing for a …

Abortion is a contentious issue, and I imagine an indie film about it that doesn’t have movie stars won’t draw in anyone who hasn’t already made up their minds about being pro-choice or anti-abortion. And yet, watching Eliza Hittman’s moving drama, my concerns about the film’s efficacy of its advocacy slipped away as I was drawn further into the crushing normalcy of a casually cruel system that makes women endure an endless barrage of indignities. Watching the two young women at the center of Never Rarely Sometimes Always is devastating it just because …

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 …

I just finished watching the first season of HBO's Euphoria last week, and was greatly impressed by the entire young cast, including Barbie Ferreira, who plays cam girl Kat Hernandez. Well I'm not the only who was impressed, as Ferreira has just landed a lead role alongside Haley Lu Richardson in the HBO Max movie UNpregnant. Rachel Lee Goldenberg (The Mindy Project) is directing from a script by Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan, who adapted their own YA book of the same name. The coming-of-age story follows a Missouri teen (Richardson) who embarks on a 900-…

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