Georges (Jean Dujardin) has left his wife and blown all of his savings on a deerskin jacket. Driving out into the middle of nowhere to be alone his unhealthily obsession with the ‘killer’ style the jacket gives him leads him to murder. Deerskin is the sort of film that has you wondering if you have … Continue reading Deerskin
Twenty-five years after the original Woodsboro murders Ghostface re-emerges to terrorise the residents once again. As is now traditional with Scream movies it opens with a young woman being terrorised by an anonymous caller. Tara (Jenna Ortega) initially ignores the call from an unknown number but is forced by circumstance to answer the call and … Continue reading Scream (2022)
It’s 1969 and young Buddy (Jude Hill) lives in Belfast on a road populated by Catholics and Protestants without a care in the world. That is until social unrest arises and riots and the army interrupt his happy life. Belfast appears to be a special semi-autobiographical film for writer/director Kenneth Branagh. Buddy is enthralled by … Continue reading Belfast
When Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) drifts through a carnival he meets its owner Clem Hoatley (Willem Defoe) who takes a shine to him and offers him a job. Initially just keen to have something to eat and a mattress to sleep on Stanton takes up the opportunity but as he meets other performers at the … Continue reading Nightmare Alley
Two women meet in a maternity ward during labour and develop a bond. Janis (Penelope Cruz) is a photographer approaching middle age delighted with her unplanned pregnancy whilst Ana (Milena Smit) is a young woman mortified with hers. They exchange numbers and later forge a friendship. Pedro Almodovar’s latest is a little peculiar even by … Continue reading Parallel Mothers
The true story of Dana Canedy (Chante Adams) who wrote a book dedicated to the journal her partner 1st Sgt. Charles King (Michael B. Jordan) wrote for their son before he died. Cutting back and forth between Dana as a single mother and Dana and Charles meeting and developing their relationship the film tells the … Continue reading A Journal For Jordan
CIA agent Mason Browne (Jessica Chastain) is tasked with recovering a devastating cyber weapon. But when her operation goes wrong she gathers a team of women each from a different agency to help capture and destroy the weapon. Mason’s CIA agent will enlist Marie Schmidt (Diane Kruger) from Germany’s BND, Khadijah Adiyeme (Lupita Nyong’o) from … Continue reading The 355
The Scream series is soon to receive its fifth entry and what better way to celebrate its release than to revisit all of the film entries in the franchise and rank them? The fifth entry, confusingly called simply Scream will be the first to not feature the writer/director partnership of Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven (who … Continue reading Scream – Ranked
1973, San Fernando Valley. Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) is lining up for his high school photograph when he meets one of the photographer’s assistants, Alana Kain (Alana Haim). He asks her on a date and despite her misgivings at their age gap she decides to meet him. What follows is a coming of age story … Continue reading Licorice Pizza
Rojda (Almila Bagriacik) is an Iraqi-Kurd who has lived in Germany since she was a child. We meet her at a refugee camp for displaced Kurds trying to get her mother Ferhat (Maryam Boubani) released into her care. When safely back in Germany their relationship is strained, firstly because Ferhat is concerned that Rojda is … Continue reading Sisters Apart (Im Feuer)
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