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
Mason (Jason Statham) is a reclusive loner on a remote Scottish island hiding from his past. But when delivery girl Jessie (Bodhi Rae Breathnach) finds herself stranded following a storm Mason has to find a way to help her. Of course this leads to him blowing his cover and he and Jessie set out on … Continue reading Shelter
Ingrid (Aubrey Plaza) is obsessed with social media. So much so that she has just been released from a psychiatric ward following an incident where she pepper sprayed an Instagram influencer at her wedding. Failing to learn her lesson she immediately begins to obsess over another influencer called Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen) and heads west to … Continue reading Ingrid Goes West
Arj (Aziz Ansari) is just about making ends meet in the gig economy by doing odd jobs and deliveries. When he meets the incredibly rich Venture Capitalist Jeff (Seth Rogen) via one of those jobs he lands himself what he believes to be a slightly more stable job as an assistant. But when things do … Continue reading Good Fortune
A group of partygoers at a High School Reunion find themselves snowed in and their host murdered. Can they find the killer who is undoubtedly in their midst before they strike again? Reunion is an out and out dire movie. The plot is as follows… the now rich and largely hated Mathew Danbury (Chace Crawford) … Continue reading Reunion
In the near future, Los Angeles will employ an AI as judge, jury and executioner to speed up justice and instil fear into anyone planning on breaking the law. They will name this AI, Mercy. Then one day one of its biggest advocates, Detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt), will wake up hung over with no … Continue reading Mercy
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
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