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The Toy Story franchise has been around for 31 years and has been a juggernaut. The fifth film in the series puts Jessie in the spotlight. Bonnie (Scarlett Spears) is now eight years old, but she struggles to make friends. In desperation, Bonnie’s parents get her a Lilypad tablet (Greta Lee) so the child can […]
Although Jennifer Kent’s debut film, The Babadook, brought international attention to the Australian horror scene, little would come of it until nearly a decade later. Talk to Me kicked off the wave we’re currently riding, for better or for worse (mostly better). That’s fortunate for writer/director Adrian Chiarella, for while the involvement of Mia Wasikowska […]
Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day is a multi-national adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s second novel, as it shows a young woman fighting against the patriarchal standards of her time. Katharine Hilbery (Haley Bennett) is a budding astronomer in 1910. Her dream is to go to Cambridge and study physics, but she has to fight the male-dominated elite […]
Hong Kong was once at the forefront of action cinema the world over. While the ’80s were a time of maximalist, muscular blockbusters flooding out of the United States, the East Asian city (then a British colony) punched well above its weight. Following the work done by Bruce Lee and the Shaw Brothers to soften […]
Steven Spielberg returns to extraterrestrial sci-fi with the conspiracy thriller Disclosure Day. Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) is on the run with his girlfriend, Jane (Eve Hewson), after stealing information and an advanced device from his employer. This coincides with Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) undergoing a sudden metamorphosis where she develops telekinetic powers and becomes able […]
Savage House is a darkly comedic and satirical take on British period dramas as everyone in society attempts to climb the social ladder. Sir Chauncey Savage (Richard E. Grant) is the son of a lowly Welshman who married into the prestigious but impoverished Savage Family. Within Savage House, Chauncey and his wife (Claire Foy) are […]
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act is the final two episodes of the acclaimed web series, given a special theatrical release. The residents of The Amazing Digital Circus have fallen into a deep depression after their attempt to escape turned out to be an ‘adventure’ made by Caine (Alex Rochon). The ringmaster starts to […]
Hailing from an era defined by kids’ cartoons designed purely to sell toys, Masters of the Universe was one of the cheesiest and most ridiculous, especially amongst the few still broadly recognizable this deep into the twenty-first century. It wielded a then-popular blend of high-fantasy and futuristic, space-based sci-fi easily at home on the side […]
Arco is an animated film from France that explores themes of family and the environment and serves as Ugo Bienvenu’s feature debut film. Arco Dorell (Juliano Krue Valdi) is a 10-year-old boy in the distant future where time travel is possible. He wants to travel back in time and see dinosaurs, but only children older […]
How do you adapt a no-budget, avant-garde, YouTube-based anthology series like Backrooms into a mainstream feature film? You could point to Skinamarink as an experimental horror that received a theatrical release. But it was acquired out of a festival, and never reached one thousand screens. Conversely, A24 approached Kane Parsons about adapting his own series into […]