When you die you get exactly one week to decide how you want to spend the rest of eternity, so you can imagine the quandary that Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) finds herself in when she dies and finds both her first husband Luke (Callum Turner) and her second husband Larry (Miles Teller) waiting for her. Eternity’s … Continue reading Eternity
Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) has it all. A perfect wife, two children, two dogs and the perfect home. He has worked at a paper company his entire life and is a respected senior manager. That is until his company is taken over by an American competitor and he finds himself made redundant along with many of … Continue reading No Other Choice
After Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his gang of ‘fingers’ save Spike (Alfie Williams) they induct him into their fold and make his life a nightmare. Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) meanwhile continues his research into the alpha Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) and his findings could change things for everyone. When we left Spike in … Continue reading 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) attempt to process the intense grief of their eleven year old son Hamnet dying. Opening with the moment Agnes and William meet this film plots their courtship, marriage and life together until everything comes crashing down for them with the death of their son. For me, the … Continue reading Hamnet
Famous actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) has just wrapped on his latest film when he hears the news that the director who began his illustrious career has died. At the funeral he is given some unvarnished home truths from an old friend he studied acting with triggering a journey of introspection on what he has … Continue reading Jay Kelly
Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) are young and in love. When Jackson is left a house in his home town of Montana they move in with Grace expecting their first child. But then Grace begins to spiral, left alone with a child, suffering from post-partum depression and slowly going insane. Die My Love … Continue reading Die My Love
When Lightning (Hugh Jackman) meets Thunder (Kate Hudson) whilst performing as musical impersonators at the Wisconsin State Fair they hit it off and decide to create a Neil Diamond tribute act. Lightning whose actual name is Mike wants to take the stage as himself rather than someone else and eventually quits. Thunder whose actual name … Continue reading Song Sung Blue
Ash (Riz Ahmed) offers a highly specialised, highly illegal and highly lucrative service to whistleblowers who have lost their nerve and want to give back the information they have stolen from their employers. For a fee he will engage with the company and broker a deal that secures a copy of the documents to ensure … Continue reading Relay
The true story of boxer Prince Naseem Hamed (Amir El-Masry), trained from a young age by Brendan Ingle (Pierce Brosnan) who would rise to be World Champion by the age of twenty-one and retired at age twenty-eight. Giant is a sports biopic that shows flashes of brilliance but mostly stays entrenched in genre tropes. There … Continue reading Giant
When Millie (Sydney Sweeney) finds a job as a housemaid for an affluent couple she thinks all of her problems are solved. But her boss Nina (Amanda Seyfried) very quickly starts to behave erratically whilst her husband Andrew (Brandon Sklenar) may be getting just a little too friendly with her. The Housemaid is based on … Continue reading The Housemaid
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