THE LOST DAUGHTER (NETFLIX) Maggie Gyllenhaal directs the adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter. Olivia Colman portrays the main character, Leda, whose liberation after her daughter moves to Canada takes her to Italy. However, after a series of … Continued

Alone on a seaside vacation, Leda becomes consumed with a young mother and daughter as she watches them on the beach. Unnerved by their compelling relationship (and their raucous and menacing extended family), Leda is overwhelmed by her memories of … Continued

HBO‘s The Deuce was one of our favorite shows of last year. An uncompromising look at the sex industry in the volatile setting of 1970s New York (“The Deuce” was the nickname of 42nd Street back in the old days), … Continued

In these uncertain times regarding the health and wellbeing of children within the physcical and emotional walls of educational and religious institutions, the timing of The Kindergarten Teacher couldn’t be more pertinent. In light of school shootings, not to mention sexual … Continued

Like a little sexual tension with your cocktails? PROVOKR invites you to sit back and relax with one–or all–of these hot, delicious softcore films, from the sublime to the silly—we’ll let you decide which is which (cough—50 Shades—cough). There are … Continued

This year the Sundance Film Festival makes a giant leap forward in gender equality, and the timing couldn’t be better. As the veil is being lifted on the misogynist attitude toward women in Hollywood, where only 4% of all feature films … Continued

While the Twilight fan fiction-derived fad of 50 Shades of Grey was sweeping the nation, we were fondly recalling the misadventures of another Grey, E. Edward Grey played by James Spader, in a much more intriguing film. The actress Maggie Gyllenhaal immediately became a … Continued

In the 1970s, 42nd Street in Manhattan was known as The Deuce, an affectionate nickname for the uncouth corner of the city which had become home to the rise of organized crime and the newly-legal pornography industry. A fictional story … Continued

For Dana Carvey it will always be Barbara Bush in a teddy, for others it involves rope, car crashes (we’ll explain) and whipped cream. The meaning of kinky runs the gamut and so it is with kinky film, which continues … Continued

Sylvia Plath’s haunting coming-of-age story in The Bell Jar is a stand-alone American classic. Most famous as a portrait of a fragile psyche slowly unraveling, it’s maybe more importantly a portrayal of a young woman coming to terms with a world … Continued