Checkmates (2024)

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old…

Jean-Francois and Angie have known each other for 25 years and have been lovers on and off for most of that time. After two marriages (one ending in divorce, the…

A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.

A group of four decides to commit suicide using gigantic fireworks. But every time the fireworks explode, they find themselves back in time before they carried out the plan. They…

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes…

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him ‘the knack’ – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in…

Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he’s a brilliant seaman who’s always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he’s been given one…

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the…

Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are…

When a doctor visit reveals her fertility may be in jeopardy, thirty-something Nellie Robinson stares down the barrel of a future without options and decides to freeze her eggs.

Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank’s widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston…

When a father-son duo learns that they may not be biologically related, the two embark on a wild adventure through Mexico to find the truth.