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Judging purely by scale, Rabbit Trap could have been made during the depths of the COVID pandemic. Set on an isolated Welsh hillside that gives way to a dense and disorienting forest pushes thoughts of the wider world out of your mind. The cast consists of just four people, one of whom is relegated to […]
A group of amateur sleuths, known as the Thursday Murder Club, spend their retirement years examining unsolved murders. But when their beloved retirement home is threatened, and a strong ally in the fight to save it is found dead, they begin to look into a case that is slightly less cold than the ones they […]
Between the complications inherent in releasing movies during the COVID pandemic, lending his voice to animated features, and the limited theatrical runs enjoyed by most streaming studio fare, Relay marks Riz Ahmed’s return to the screen in a starring role. So it’s quite bold that for its first thirty minutes, we don’t hear his voice. […]
Darren Aronofsky directs his ninth film, moving to the crime-caper genre by adapting Charlie Huston’s novel Caught Stealing. Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) is a bartender in late ‘90s New York. His simple life becomes complicated when his punk rocker neighbour, Russ (Matt Smith), has to rush back to London and asks the former baseball player to […]
The Toxic Avenger series has been given the reboot treatment with Troma Entertainment teaming up with Legendary Pictures and the website Bloody Disgusting. Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage) is a janitor, widower, and single parent to his stepson, Wade (Jacob Tremblay). When Winston finds out he has brain cancer and after having treatment rejected by his […]
Eddington is Ari Aster’s fourth feature film. This time, he satires politics during the COVID pandemic. Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) is the sheriff of Eddington in New Mexico. He has political differences regarding the mayor’s, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), COVID policy. Joe also has personal issues with Ted due to Ted’s previous relationship with Joe’s […]
Welcome to the year of the romcom! Much has been made of the genre’s disappearance from the theatrical experience. True, they still flood streaming services, with Netflix distributing the best of recent years in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. But with the exception of Anyone But You, few have made any noise either at the box […]
Bob Odenkirk returns to his action role as Hutch Mansell. This time, Hutch and his family experience an eventful vacation. Hutch has returned to government service to pay back his debt after burning the Russian Mafia’s cash. However, Hutch has grown bored with killing people, and the job keeps him away from his family. Hutch […]
Mike Flanagan adapts a Stephen King story for the third time with The Life of Chuck. He steps out of his horror comfort zone. The Life of Chuck is a film split into three acts. “Thanks, Chuck” shows an ex-married couple, Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Felicia Gordon (Karen Gillan), just as the world suffers […]
After a couple of fake trailers for amusingly dumb horror flicks, it was a genuine surprise that the opening of the film was shot from Jimmy’s (writer/director Joe Begos) perspective. We’re along for the ride in real-time as Jimmy putters and mutters about his apartment, doing coke and smoking grass and downing whiskey and watching […]