Blake (Christopher Abbott) takes his wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) to the farm he grew up on in remote Oregon. On their first night there they are attacked by a mysterious animal that stands on its hind legs and Blake is injured. Infected by the disease the animal that attacked them … Continue reading Wolf Man
In 1961, a nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan (Timothee Chalamet) arrives in New York as a complete unknown. By 1965 he is the most famous musician in the world and about to deliver a groundbreaking electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. A Complete Unknown is a classic biopic that chooses to focus on a fixed … Continue reading A Complete Unknown
Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie), the greatest opera singer in the world, lives out her final days in Paris, 1977. Maria is a biopic by director Pablo Larrain. Which is to say that it is unlike typical biopics. For anyone who has seen his previous films Jackie or Spencer, which focused on Jackie Kennedy and Princess … Continue reading Maria
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a high powered CEO with a successful husband (Antonio Banderas) and two teenage children. But when she meets Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a much younger intern at her company she finds herself in a torrid affair that caters to her deepest darkest fantasies. When we first meet Romy she is faking an … Continue reading Babygirl
The story of multiple families who all lived in the same place across hundreds of years told from the perspective of a single fixed camera. Here is a Robert Zemeckis picture. Zemeckis is the mastermind behind crowd pleasing stories like Romancing The Stone, the Back To The Future trilogy and Death Becomes Her. But more … Continue reading Here
Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a schoolteacher in Brooklyn and a drug addict. When one of his students, Drey (Shareeka Epps) discovers his secret they form an unlikely friendship. Half Nelson is a film about contradictions and the vice like grip drugs can hold on you, just like the wrestling move the film is named … Continue reading Half Nelson
When psychiatrist Dr. Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) takes on the caseload of an exhausted co-worker he is immediately met with the challenge of a patient determined to take their own life. Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling) declares to Sam that he will take his own life at midnight on his birthday in a bid to mimic … Continue reading Stay
Whilst living in a care home an elderly man (James Garner) reads to a woman with dementia (Gena Rowlands). The story he tells is a romance between a young man (Ryan Gosling) and woman (Rachel McAdams) in the 1940’s whose class differences threaten their love. Despite The Notebook releasing in 2004 I have never watched … Continue reading The Notebook
When a young man named Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) murders a special needs child he is sent to a juvenile detention centre. There his teacher Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle) tries to help him to open up and explain why he would do such a thing. Meanwhile those impacted by the crime try to come … Continue reading The United States Of Leland
Two gifted High School students plan and commit a perfect murder as an intellectual expression of their freedom. What they did not account for is the seasoned detective assigned to the case. Murder by Numbers is an example of a classic crime procedural thriller that was prevalent in the 1990’s and 2000’s. The obvious pun … Continue reading Murder By Numbers
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