Grow Omaha Flicks

★ ★ You, Me & Tuscany is a story about a young woman named Anna (Halle Bailey), who dropped out of culinary school two months before graduation when her mother became deathly ill. Understandably, her mom’s death sent her life spiraling out of whack. When we first meet her, she’s at a crossroads. She wants to get her life back on track but has neither the means nor the deep-seated drive to do so. The film begins with Anna begging her friend Claire for a free room at the hotel she manages…

★ ★ ½ Beast is about a disgraced MMA fighter named Patton James (Daniel MacPherson) on the verge of a middleweight title. As the film opens, he knocks out an opponent in six seconds, then we flash forward 10 years to find him working as a fisherman. In that time, he served prison time for a bar fight, got married and had a daughter. We see none of this and miss a great deal of dramatic setup that could have paid dividends as the film ratchets up the tension. As it is, we get a paint-by-numbers…

★ ★ Faces of Death attempts to ask the same question as the 1978 film that shares its title: Is this real? The original film boasted ‘Banned in 46 Countries’ on its cover. No doubt, that helped propel it to cult classic status. It was also hard to find, likely on purpose. You wouldn’t find the film at Hollywood Video or Blockbuster. If you found it, it would be at a mom-and-pop video store that also had a curtained-off room in the back. Supposedly, someone at my junior high school had a copy and held a watch party…

★ ★ ★ ½ The Drama examines a couple in the final days before their wedding, when a secret is revealed that stretches trust to its breaking point and sends shockwaves through friends caught inside the blast radius. It’s scripted, acted and shot in a way that feels sharply real, even if it occasionally gets lost in its own ideals. Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson) are madly in love and just days away from their wedding…

★ ★ ★ They Will Kill You is another Hollywood entry in the Satanic cabal subgenre, a lane that seems to be gaining ground in horror. It’s full of hyper-stylized violence that plays like a cross between the Kill Bill films, the Grindhouse double feature and From Dusk Till Dawn. It’s a martial arts, blood spraying battle royale of good versus evil. The cinematic style works well for the action, until it doesn’t. Zazie Beetz plays Asia Reaves, who just finished a nine-year stint in prison…

★ ★ ★ ½ Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a much better film than a horror-action-comedy sequel should be. In fact, it may be better than the original in many ways. In the first film Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) marries Alex Le Domas (Mark O’Brien) in the ridiculously large backyard of the family estate. The Le Domas family has a tradition. When there’s a new spouse added to the family, the new family member…

★ ★ ★ ★ Project Hail Mary is a film based on the novel by Andy Weir, who also wrote The Martian. This film is so entertaining and captivating that its two-and-a-half-hour runtime flies by. Many elements work cohesively to create an excellent space drama that makes first contact with an alien feel fresh again. Earth’s sun is under threat from a phenomenon, an infrared line from Venus to the sun, called the Petrova Line…

★ ★ ★ ½ Undertone is a one-location micro-budget horror film that triggered a bidding war when it premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2025. It was eventually acquired by A24. The initial budget? $500,000. It’s proof that a good story, shot and told well, doesn’t necessarily need big-budget Hollywood financing. Just a director with an inheritance and the talent to make a movie. What director Ian Tuason creates here is a world that feels big despite the fact that the entire film takes place…

★ ★ ★ Reminders of Him stars Maika Monroe as Kenna Rowan, a young woman just released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence for manslaughter. She was driving when her car crashed, injuring herself and killing her boyfriend, Scotty (Rudy Pankow). To make matters worse, she’s accused of fleeing the scene of the accident. The film is based on the novel of the same name by bestselling author Colleen Hoover, whose recent film adaptations include It Ends With Us and Regretting You…

★ ★ ★ War Machine is a sci-fi action thriller about a group of Army recruits in the final stage of a special ops boot camp. Their final test is a simulated op in the forests of the Colorado Rockies. They quickly find themselves in an impossible battle with a virtually indestructible machine that’s really good at killing. To make matters worse , because it’s supposed to be a training mission, they’re not carrying live ammunition. The machine is one of the most formidable foes I’ve seen on screen in some time…