Always Shine Is a Chillingly Resonant Horror Movie About Toxic Female Friendship

In Sophia Takal's sophomore film, Always Shine, her follow-up to 2011's Green, Anna and Beth (Mackenzie Davis and Caitlin FitzGerald) are old friends who set out from Los Angeles for a weekend in Big Sur in hopes of repairing their frayed relationship. They're both actresses, but they've had entirely different experiences in Hollywood. Beth, demure, passive, and sweetly pretty ("the wilting flower type"), has found a niche playing the damsel in distress in blockbuster slasher flicks, creatively ...