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Writer/director Sean Anders was inspired by his own experience fostering children for his latest comedy-drama, Instant Family. It aims to bring up a major issue through a mainstream film. Pete and Ellie Wagner (Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne) are a childless married couple who decide to foster a child. They end up getting drawn to Lizzy (Isabela […]
Wicked is one of the most famous and popular musicals to be made in the last 20 years. Based on a novel by Gregory Maguire Wicked sets out to tell the true story about the Wicked Witch of the West and how she came to be, reinterpreting the world created by L. Frank Baum. The musical was originally produced in […]
Based on a true story about an inter-racial road trip film set in the ’60s Deep South Green Book is one of the leading awards contenders for the 2018/2019 season. Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) was a bouncer at the Copacabana nightclub in New York. After the club shuts for renovations Tony has to find alternative employment for […]
Something amazing happened last Friday: Big Mouth, the best animated look at the perils and pitfalls of adolescence on television, dropped a special, hour-long Valentine’s Day special. If you’re a fan of this delightfully dirty, yet surprisingly heartfelt, series, you don’t need me to recommend you drop what you’re doing at watch the episode (it’s […]
James Cameron’s adaptation of Alita: Battle Angel has been long in the waiting. It has now come to be thanks to director Robert Rodriguez giving us one of the best Western adaptations of a Japanese property. The year is 2563, it has been 300 years since a catastrophic event known as The Fall. In the scrap yards of Iron City Dr. […]
Russian Doll, Netflix’s new dramedy, is, as has been reported by numerous TV critics, the perfect binge show. There are eight episodes, each clocking in at under 30 minutes. It’s a complete mind-fuck puzzle box story that ::gasp:: actually comes together perfectly at the end (take note, Westworld, this is totally possible). Oh, and it […]
Dick Cheney was one of the most controversial and hated politicians in American history and his career serves as the subject matter for Adam McKay’s follow-up to the well-received The Big Short. Vice follows Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) from his days as a Yale dropout and a drunk waster to becoming one of the most powerful men […]
Ok, so Netflix’s newest comedy series Sex Education might not be a hidden gem, but it doesn’t seem to have captured the zeitgeist like House of Cards or Orange is the New Black did upon their arrival on the site, so I’m going to assume that the series hasn’t reached the masses at Bird Box-level […]
The latest film about Mary Queen of Scots sees two important monarchs of British history going face-to-face with each other with two of the talented actresses of their generations playing them. In 1567 Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) returns to her kingdom after the death of her husband. This leads to tensions with England because she has a claim […]
Glass has a lot to live up to being a sequel to both Unbreakable and Split and concluding the “Eastrail #177” trilogy. It has been 19 years since David Dunn (Bruce Willis) has accepted his role as a superhero and patrols the streets of Philadelphia. The media have dubbed him “The Overseer” and the police searching for him. David and […]