Our take
1990s Los Angeles was both glamorous and seedy, and it’s this murky territory that filmmaker Lisa Nova (Rosa Salazar) enters as she tries to make her movie dreams a reality. Lisa is ambitious and polite enough—if not a bit naive—but when she gets screwed over, she enlists the help of a mysterious stranger (played to witchy perfection by Catherine Keener) and, together, they brew their revenge. Things then take a turn for the supernatural in this ambitious, eerie thriller that will surely sate any David Lynch fan’s appetite.
The story
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
Elsewhere
"Rarely has a story about a movie proven the old adage that "no one knows anything" quite like this."
— Steve Greene
"Brand New Cherry Flavor is a mindf**k in the best ways."
— Brian Tallerico
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Guillermo del Toro
The Terror
Alexander Woo & David Kajganich
The Changeling
Kelly Marcel
American Gods
Bryan Fuller & Michael Green
Archive 81
Rebecca Sonnenshine
Dracula
Claes Bang & Mark Gatiss
Penny Dreadful
John Logan
Castle Rock
Dustin Thomason & Sam Shaw
Who picked it
Renee Cuisia is the lead curator at A Good Movie to Watch. In her spare time, she likes to watch K-dramas and analyze them to death. She's also seen You've Got Mail one too many times but is still convinced it's one of the greatest films out there.
