When a highly infectious and catastrophically dangerous fungus escapes its holding cell deep within an abandoned US Military facility there are only three people between us and total annihilation; Self-Storage employees Teacake (Joe Keery) and Naomi (Georgina Campbell) and retired bioterrorism agent Robert Quinn (Liam Neeson). Cold Storage is an at times deliciously funny splatter … Continue reading Cold Storage
Alex (Will Arnett) and Tess (Laura Dern) find their marriage unraveling in middle age. In order to find themselves again, they seek their own identities. Alex gravitates towards the New York stand-up comedy scene, and Tess towards coaching volleyball. Arguing all the time, Alex and Tess choose to separate and co-parent their children in two … Continue reading Is This Thing On?
Two sisters negotiate the emotional impact of their absent father re-entering their lives when their mother dies. Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) spent most of their formative years being raised by their psychiatrist mother following their parents’ split. Both have emotional scars as a result of their sense of abandonment. It is … Continue reading Sentimental Value
Mike (Chris Hemsworth) is an expert thief whose territory lies across the 101 Highway in Los Angeles. Lou (Mark Ruffalo) is a dishevelled detective whose crazy theory on how this thief operates is looked down upon by his peers. Sharon (Halle Berry) is an insurance underwriter who deals in the exact items that Mike craves. … Continue reading Crime 101
Linda (Rose Byrne) is a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. With her husband away and her apartment falling apart, Linda has to try and juggle her career and manage her daughter’s illness. Linda’s daughter, always just out of camera shot, is perpetually whining, crying, or placing unfair demands on her. We gradually … Continue reading If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
The classic story of Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors in the late 1700s. I need to begin my thoughts on writer/director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights with the context of my relationship with the subject matter. Immediately prior to the trailers … Continue reading “Wuthering Heights”
Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser) is an American actor who travelled to Japan seven years ago to star in a toothpaste commercial. With no other real direction or pull to do anything else, he finds himself still there with no purpose. Can the unusual gig of working for a “Rental Family” company give him that purpose? … Continue reading Rental Family
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
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