Alex (Will Arnett) and Tess (Laura Dern) find their marriage unraveling in middle age. In order to find themselves again, they seek their own identities. Alex gravitates towards the New York stand-up comedy scene, and Tess towards coaching volleyball. Arguing all the time, Alex and Tess choose to separate and co-parent their children in two … Continue reading Is This Thing On?
Two sisters negotiate the emotional impact of their absent father re-entering their lives when their mother dies. Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) spent most of their formative years being raised by their psychiatrist mother following their parents’ split. Both have emotional scars as a result of their sense of abandonment. It is … Continue reading Sentimental Value
Mike (Chris Hemsworth) is an expert thief whose territory lies across the 101 Highway in Los Angeles. Lou (Mark Ruffalo) is a dishevelled detective whose crazy theory on how this thief operates is looked down upon by his peers. Sharon (Halle Berry) is an insurance underwriter who deals in the exact items that Mike craves. … Continue reading Crime 101
Linda (Rose Byrne) is a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. With her husband away and her apartment falling apart, Linda has to try and juggle her career and manage her daughter’s illness. Linda’s daughter, always just out of camera shot, is perpetually whining, crying, or placing unfair demands on her. We gradually … Continue reading If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
The classic story of Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors in the late 1700s. I need to begin my thoughts on writer/director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights with the context of my relationship with the subject matter. Immediately prior to the trailers … Continue reading “Wuthering Heights”
Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser) is an American actor who travelled to Japan seven years ago to star in a toothpaste commercial. With no other real direction or pull to do anything else, he finds himself still there with no purpose. Can the unusual gig of working for a “Rental Family” company give him that purpose? … Continue reading Rental Family
Mason (Jason Statham) is a reclusive loner on a remote Scottish island hiding from his past. But when delivery girl Jessie (Bodhi Rae Breathnach) finds herself stranded following a storm Mason has to find a way to help her. Of course this leads to him blowing his cover and he and Jessie set out on … Continue reading Shelter
Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) is obsessed with social media. So much so that she has just been released from a psychiatric ward following an incident where she pepper sprayed an Instagram influencer at her wedding. Failing to learn her lesson she immediately begins to obsess over another influencer called Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen) and heads west to … Continue reading Ingrid Goes West
Arj (Aziz Ansari) is just about making ends meet in the gig economy by doing odd jobs and deliveries. When he meets the incredibly rich Venture Capitalist Jeff (Seth Rogen) via one of those jobs he lands himself what he believes to be a slightly more stable job as an assistant. But when things do … Continue reading Good Fortune
A group of partygoers at a High School Reunion find themselves snowed in and their host murdered. Can they find the killer who is undoubtedly in their midst before they strike again? Reunion is an out and out dire movie. The plot is as follows… the now rich and largely hated Mathew Danbury (Chace Crawford) … Continue reading Reunion
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