There are simple actions in this world that carry more weight than we expect… Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events — participating in the selection of a new pope. Surrounded by powerful religious leaders in the halls of the Vatican, he soon uncovers a trail […]
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Elijah Wood returns to New Zealand for his heart warming and touching new film Bookworm. It’s been a few year’s since Elijah Wood shot the Lord of The Rings in New Zealand, but the actor could not resist the temptation to return to the stunning and familiair location to shoot his new film, Bookworm. Wood […]
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Elijah Wood returns to the New Zealand wilderness in Bookworm, the latest from Ant Timpson. Here he plays Strawn Wise, an American magician who returns to look after his estranged daughter. That daughter is Mildred (Nell Fisher, Evil Dead Rise), whose mother is in a coma. Mildred begs Strawn to take her camping in search of […]
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‘Every day is a funny story’ is a strange thesis for a conventional movie worthy of a film festival, yet here we are in John Crowley’s We Live in Time, about two people who fall deeply in love. The lovers here are Tobias (Andrew Garfield), who works for Weetabix, and Almut (Florence Pugh), a multi […]
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It’s all about how you “lead”… Believe it or not, Smile 2 actually breaks the rule of diminishing returns on a horror sequel by pushing this story through the fun house mirror with aplomb alongside a leading performance that thrusts its star into leading ‘Scream Queen’ status. About to embark on a new world tour, […]
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Thomas: Between this and Come to Daddy, Bookworm seems to be a film with a bit of a larger scale. What was it like to work with a bit of a larger scope this time out? Ant: It’s strange, because it felt like it was still an intimate story between a couple of characters. In […]
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El Gran Movimiento, or The Grand Movement, is the second feature from the Bolivian director Kiro Russo. Starting out as a Vertov-esque cityscape, it eventually zooms into the lives of former rural miners (Julio Cezar Ticona, Israel Hurtado, Max Bautista Uchasara, and Gustavo Milán Ticona). They’re in La Paz to strike while also figuring out […]
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So my previous piece on Only Murders in the Building only covers this season’s first seven episodes. A studio is making a biopic of our big three, Charles, Mabel, and Oliver (co-creator Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short respectively). Tensions between them and their Hollywood doppelgangers (Eugene Levy, Eva Longoria, and Zach Galifianakis playing […]
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Bertrand Bonello’s Coma is a film that, duh, has a personal, subjective view of the COVID 19 pandemic, and depending on who you ask, we either had a little or a lot during those first two years. We had our dreams, our rooms, Zoom meetings where we make admissions just in case it’s our last […]
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My Hero Academia has had a long history. Starting in 2014 as a serial in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine, it quickly became popular and was collected in several volumes. From there it spawned several spin-offs, including video games, stage plays, novels, and of course an award-winning anime series. While the magna recently came to a […]
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