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
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) are on a spacewalk repairing the Hubble Telescope when a deadly cloud of debris hits them. With their shuttle catastrophically damaged what follows is a tense fight for survival. Stone is on her first ever mission in space having just completed six months of training … Continue reading Gravity
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
A lonely Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Maia Kealoha) finds a friend in the pet dog she rescues from an animal shelter. However the pet dog, now named Stitch (Chris Sanders) is actually an intergalactic alien criminal on the run. Lilo is currently under the guardianship of her big sister Nani (Sydney Agudong) following the death … Continue reading Lilo & Stitch (2025)
Young Viking Hiccup (Mason Thames) is something of an embarrassment to his brave dragon fighting father Chief Stoick (Gerard Butler). But when he shoots down the most fearsome dragon of all, a Night Fury, he finds an unexpected friend. I had found myself putting off watching this live action remake for quite some time because … Continue reading How To Train Your Dragon (2025)
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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