Jaeger Clade (Dennis Quaid) is a legendary explorer whose lifelong quest is to see what is beyond the mountains of Avalonia. His son Searcher (Jake Gyllenhaal) does not share his father’s exploring aspirations though and when they have a difference of opinion whilst on an expedition they go their separate ways. Jaeger disappears in search … Continue reading Strange World
When the youngest of four brothers dies in what appears to be a case of police brutality the lives of the remaining three are thrown into turmoil and the Athena neighbourhood in France becomes a war zone. Athena opens with an utterly brilliant and exhilarating twelve minute shot that succeeds in being technically stunning whilst … Continue reading Athena
The classic story of Pinocchio brought to you from the mind of Guillermo del Toro via gorgeous stop motion animation. Opening with a moving prologue where we see Geppetto (David Bradley) and his son Carlo (Gregory Mann) going about their daily life we see the tragedy of Carlo’s death as a result of a WW1 … Continue reading Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invites a group of his closest friends and fellow “disrupters” to his private island for a murder mystery party. Mysteriously though, the world famous detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is also a recipient of an invite and finds himself in amongst a group of people who all have reason … Continue reading Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Towards the end of the First World War a naive group of young Germans, stirred up by patriotism join their nation's army. Paul (Felix Kammerer) has to forge his father’s signature on his papers to join up but is certain that in a few weeks they will be marching on Paris and bring glory to … Continue reading All Quiet On The Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
Nurse Elizabeth Wright (Florence Pugh) has been offered a job in Ireland to act as one half of a watch on a young girl who claims she no longer needs to eat as she is sustained by the Lord. Young Anna (Kila Lord Cassidy) has not eaten for four months as she believes that she … Continue reading The Wonder
Detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) lives and works in Busan during the week and returns to Ipo on weekends to be with his wife Jeong-ahn (Lee Jung-hyun). Hae-joon is incredibly focused on his cases to the extent that he struggles to sleep to the point of being an insomniac. His latest case involves the death of … Continue reading Decision To Leave
Whilst Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) have been building a family on Pandora the humans they defeated in the original film have fled, regrouped and returned with one thing on their mind; colonising Pandora and quelling the native threat. Jake decides the best course of action is to flee. Knowing that his nemesis … Continue reading Avatar: The Way Of Water
Angela Childs (Zoe Kravitz) is an agoraphobic tech worker who trawls through voice communications that have been misunderstood by tech giant company Amygdala’s voice recognition device Kimi. When working through her latest set of recordings she thinks that she hears evidence of a crime and attempts to report her findings placing her into a web … Continue reading Kimi
Performer Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem) is looking for something exotic to add to his act when he discovers a tiny singing crocodile in a pet store. Lyle the crocodile (voiced by Shawn Mendes) has a rather bad case of stage fright though and Hector has to head out on the road to try and … Continue reading Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
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