When half-siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) lose their father to cancer they find themselves placed with foster parent Laura (Sally Hawkins) and her other foster child Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips). Andy immediately finds Laura not only eccentric but rather exclusionary in her attention. Laura has also recently suffered the loss of her … Continue reading Bring Her Back
Willy Wonka (Timothee Chalamet) dreams of becoming a chocolatier and after years of travelling the globe honing his recipes he arrives in the big city to open his own shop. However he finds himself blocked by the chocolate cartel, a trio of powerful shop owners by the names of Slugworth (Paterson Joseph), Fickelgruber (Matthew Baynton) … Continue reading Wonka
Inspired by an evening watching Shakespeare’s Richard III, Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins) begins an almost obsessive interest in who he was and where he was laid to rest. Fighting against established historians unprepared to listen to an amateur she is able to find the remains of a king that were buried over five-hundred years earlier. … Continue reading The Lost King
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