When half-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) lose their father to cancer they find themselves placed with foster parent Laura (Sally Hawkins) and her other foster child Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips). Andy immediately finds Laura not only eccentric but rather exclusionary in her attention. Laura has also recently suffered the loss of her … Continue reading Bring Her Back
Four years after Finn (Mason Thames) fought off and killed ‘The Grabber’ (Ethan Hawke) he is struggling to deal with his trauma from those events. His sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) then begins to have mysterious dreams about some young boys that died at a camp that may be linked to their mother and ‘The Grabber’. … Continue reading Black Phone 2
A documentary exploring the life and legacy of one of the most gifted comedy actors of all time, John Candy. The star died from a heart attack at the age of forty-three in 1994 whilst in Mexico filming Wagons East. “I Like Me” is a title taken from a speech Candy’s character makes in Planes, … Continue reading John Candy: I Like Me
The audacious story of the meteoric rise and calamitous fall of BlackBerry, the very first smartphone. Opening in 1996 BlackBerry introduces us to Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Doug Fregin (Matt Johnson - who co-writes and directs) as they attempt to pitch their new cellular device to businessman Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton). The pitch goes … Continue reading BlackBerry
Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is an ambitious matchmaker in New York City. Whilst at the wedding of her latest success story she meets a dating unicorn in Harry (Pedro Pascal). He is 6 feet tall, rich, charming, physically fit and intelligent. Lucy asks if she could sign him up as a client but he gives her … Continue reading Materialists
Expert thief Parker (Mark Wahlberg) finds himself forced to work with the woman who double crossed him and his crew in order to take down the score of a lifetime. Play Dirty has all of the credentials to be an exceptional action comedy. It is based on the Parker book series by Donald E. Westlake … Continue reading Play Dirty
Investigative journalist Laura Blacklock (Keira Knightley) has just filed the copy for one of her most harrowing articles yet. Can she recharge with a simple human interest story that also involves spending three days on a luxury yacht? Not when she witnesses the woman in cabin 10 fall overboard only to be told there was … Continue reading The Woman In Cabin 10
Downtrodden janitor Winston (Peter Dinklage) finds himself thrown into a vat of toxic waste and transformed into the horrifically deformed superhero The Toxic Avenger. The Toxic Avenger is a rather hilarious and fun homage/reboot of the 1984 low budget horror movie of the same name. It is a B-movie, splatterfest with an awful lot of … Continue reading The Toxic Avenger: Unrated
A highly sophisticated AI Program known as Ares (Jared Leto) is sent into the real world to capture the “permanence code”. The next step in the digital technology war being played out by giant technology corporations ENCOM and Dillinger. Tron is a rather odd franchise for Disney in that it is a series only loosely … Continue reading Tron: Ares
Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers) is the next up and coming American Football Quarterback. A glittering College career looks set to make him the number one draft pick, until someone dressed as a mascot gives him a career threatening brain injury with a mighty thwack on the head. But as hope is fading, legendary player Isaiah … Continue reading HIM
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