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
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
After spending his youth as a revolutionary demolitions expert “Bob” (Leonardo DiCaprio) has been living under the radar with his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). That is until old adversary Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn) tracks them down. One Battle After Another is true to its title and careers from one tense showdown to another. … Continue reading One Battle After Another
When David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) meet at a wedding they find themselves thrust on a Big Bold Beautiful Journey together by the magical GPS provided by their rental cars. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a magical realist adventure that is equal parts introspective therapy session and hopelessly romantic love story. Both … Continue reading A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Lainy Newton (Amy Schumer) believes that her boyfriend is about to propose to her but instead his indecent proposal is going to send her on a spiral that will somehow result in her pretending that she is pregnant. Of course this will happen to coincide with her meeting the real man of her dreams Josh … Continue reading Kinda Pregnant
Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley) is a small town private detective whose usual job is a cheating spouse gig. That is until her latest client is found dead before she has a chance to explain to Honey why she is so scared. Honey Don’t is the second film in the “Lesbian B-Movie Trilogy” that husband-wife partnership … Continue reading Honey Don’t
Hank (Austin Butler) is a bartender in New York whose life gets turned upside down when his British neighbour Gus (Matt Smith) asks him to look after his cat as he heads home to see his ailing father. Because it seems Gus has something that a number of undesirable groups of people are after, which … Continue reading Caught Stealing
After years of marriage, resentment has slowly built between Ivy Rose (Olivia Colman) and Theo Rose (Benedict Cumberbatch) culminating in a divorce battle over the stunning home that Theo designed and built using Ivy’s money. After a chance meeting and whirlwind romance the Roses start a life in America where Theo is a lauded architect … Continue reading The Roses
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