JOHN NORRIS

BREAKING NEWS IN YUBA COUNTY (2021)
Starring Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Awkwafina, Wanda Sykes, Ellen Barkin, Matthew Modine, Jimmi Simpson, Keong Sim and Juliette Lewis. Directed by Tate Taylor.

After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons, an underappreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County to find him. In an effort to prolong her newfound fame, she stumbles into hilarious hijinks as her world turns upside down, dodging a wanna-be mobster, a relentless local policewoman, her half-sister who's a local news reporter desperate for a story, and her husband’s dead-beat brother, who all set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance.

REVIEWS Breaking News in Yuba County - A very slow news day

MA
Starring Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Missi Pyle, Luke Evans, Diana Silvers, Kyanna Simone Simpson, Allison Janney, McKaley Miller, Corey Fogelmanis and Dominic Burgess. Directed by Tate Taylor.

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home. But there are some house rules: One of the kids has to stay sober. Don’t curse. Never go upstairs. And call her “Ma.” But as Ma’s hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorising nightmare, and Ma’s place goes from the best place in town to the worst place on earth.