Atypical star vehicles, ensemble indies, high-powered genre pictures and gripping historical documentaries are among the highlights of this month’s offbeat picks.
Rated NR · 86 min. · 2017
Documentary The famously beautiful actress Hedy Lamarr set movie screens ablaze in the 1940s and 50s, but what few knew was that her true calling was as an inventor: Credit Lamarr with the Wi-Fi technology bringing you this review. In this superb documentary, first-time filmmaker Alexandra Dean uses newly discovered audio tapes from a 1990 interview to let Lamarr with valuable insight from historians, her children and friends such as the late Robert Osborne tell the amazing story of her life. Born in Austria, she shocked the world at age 16 by appearing in a scandalous nudie pic called