This week Alice takes a look at The Boy Next Door, with Jennifer Lopez playing a high school teacher who gets involved with a student, Ryan Guzman, and gets more than she planned for, A Most Violent Year, with Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain as a married couple in New York City in 1981 navigating the city's underworld, and Cake, starring Jennifer Aniston as a pain killer addict who's looking for answers.
You can hear Movie Picks with Alice Reese every Friday at 4:50 and 5:50 P.M. during All Things Considered on your station, 88.9 KETR.