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Lapwing is the debut feature film for director Philip Stevens and writer Laura Turner. They delivered one of the bleakest films of 2021. The year is 1555. Queen Mary has expelled all Gypsies from England. Any Gypsies found in England and anyone who supports them will be executed. David (Emmett J Scanlan), the leader of a […]
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a Romanian comedy-drama that examines the issues affecting Romania through the prism of a sex tape scandal. Emi Cilibiu (Katia Pascarlu) is a teacher at a prestigious school. Her reputation is put into disrepute after a sex tape with her husband gets leaked online. Emi must fight to save her […]
The Ghostbusters have returned for a double passing of the torch with Jason Reitman, son of the original film’s director getting to helm the 2021 film, and a new set of characters becoming Ghostbusters. Callie Spengler (Carrie Coon) is a struggling single mother who gets evicted from her apartment. Her only option is to move to her […]
Petite Maman is the latest film from the celebrated writer/director Céline Sciamma. Her most recent offering was a touching family drama. Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) is an 8-year-old girl whose grandmother has just passed away. Her family goes to her grandmother’s house to out sort her things. During their stay in the countryside Nelly befriends, Marion (Gabrielle […]
Venus and Serena Williams are some of the most famous and successful women to ever play tennis. The biopic King Richard looks at how their father helped drive their success. Richard Williams (Will Smith) lives in Compton with his wife, Brandy (Aunjanue Ellis), three stepdaughters, and two daughters. He plans to make Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena […]
The new Netflix movie Tick, Tick… Boom! is a very unusual biopic. Typically biographical dramas focus on the successes of their subjects. This movie… not so much. In the winter of 1990, struggling composer Jonathan Larson suffered an existential crisis on the eve of his 30th birthday. Having spent years crafting his first full-length musical, […]
Belfast, writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical story about a snippet of his childhood in the capital city of Northern Ireland is, for my money, his best film since Much Ado About Nothing all the way back in the early ‘90s. For a filmmaker who has a tendency to get a bit too wrapped up in the […]
Chloé Zhao’s movies are beautiful. They feature incredible photography of natural landscapes, and ultra-naturalistic dialogue often delivered by non-actors cast off the street. Her films are deeply meditative and authentic and have the capacity to really touch audiences who are open to a different kind of movie. It made perfect sense that she swept last […]
Ron’s Gone Wrong is the first feature film from Locksmith Animation. Their first film was a delightful experience that shows as it explores the perils of big tech and social media. In the near future, the CEO of Bubble, Marc Weidell (Justice Smith) announces his new innovation, the B-Bot. The B-Bot becomes the most desirable product […]
The Paranormal Activity franchise was a pop-culture phenomenon for the first half of the 2010s. The release of a new Paranormal Activity was essentially an annual tradition, as the series churned out sequels nearly every October. It reinvigorated the found-footage genre, and in doing so, made a killing at the box office. Its star faded […]