It is 1984 and aspiring filmmaker Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) lives in a Knightsbridge flat with another student as she navigates film school. When she meets Anthony (Tom Burke) at a party, an older man who works for the foreign office, she is taken by his mysterious nature and begins a relationship with him. The … Continue reading The Souvenir & The Souvenir: Part II
The Killer (Michael Fassbender) is in Paris for his latest job when an unforeseen error results in him needing to manage the consequences of his mistake. Set across six chapters we follow him through Paris, The Dominican Republic, New Orleans, Florida, Chicago and New York as he fastidiously ensures that what has gone wrong is … Continue reading The Killer (2023)
Opening in a television studio we are invited to watch the story of the creation of acclaimed play Asteroid City by our host (Bryan Cranston). Here he introduces us to playwright Conrad Earp (Edward Norton) and as the story of the creation and production of the first performance of the play unfolds we find ourselves … Continue reading Asteroid City
The classic story of Pinocchio brought to you from the mind of Guillermo del Toro via gorgeous stop motion animation. Opening with a moving prologue where we see Geppetto (David Bradley) and his son Carlo (Gregory Mann) going about their daily life we see the tragedy of Carlo’s death as a result of a WW1 … Continue reading Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is a narratologist on a business trip to Istanbul when she discovers an ornate bottle that contains a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes for his freedom. Of course being someone who studies the structure and function of narrative she is well aware of stories involving wishes being cautionary … Continue reading Three Thousand Years Of Longing
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