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Materialists is Celine Song’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut, Past Lives. This time, she looks at the pitfalls of modern dating in New York City. Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is a successful matchmaker for a high-end matchmaking service. During the wedding of one of her successful matches, Lucy meets two men: Harry (Pedro Pascal), a […]
The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s 13th film as a writer-director. This time, he takes his trademark style to the espionage genre. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro) is an industrialist, arms dealer, and the richest man in Europe. He had also made many enemies, and after a sixth attempt on his life, Korda sets out […]
Saturday Night Live is an American television institution. It has lasted for 50 years, and the story of its first broadcast is told in an energetic comedy-drama. It’s October 11, 1975, and NBC is 90 minutes away from broadcasting an unusual show, a live sketch show with musical and comedic guests. Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle), […]
A Real Pain is a comedy-drama that marks Jesse Eisenberg’s second film as a writer/director and follows a pair of cousins as they travel around Poland. David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) are cousins who travel to Poland on a personal pilgrim to honour their deceased grandmother and Polish-Jewish heritage. They go on an […]
We Live in Time is a romantic dramedy that stars two main British actors and focuses on the highs and lows of a young couple. Tobias Durand (Andrew Garfield) and Almut Brühl (Florence Pugh) meet after Almut runs Tobias over when he tries to retrieve a chocolate orange. The pair find they have a spark […]
Anora is a comedy-drama by celebrated indie filmmaker Sean Baker and the winner of the 2024 Palme d’Or. Anora “Ani” Mikheeva (Mikey Madison) is a stripper and escort working in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. One night she’s hired by the son of a Russian oligarch, Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn) because she’s able to speak Russian. […]
BlackBerry is a Canadian comedy-drama about one of Canada’s most famous companies and shows the rise and fall of BlackBerry. In 1996 Research in Motion (RIM) was a struggling tech company in Waterloo, Ontario. The company founders, Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Doug Fregin (Matt Johnson) pitch their revolutionary invention, the Pocket Link, to Jim Balsillie […]
The current political climate can be best described as hostile to Wall Street and the super-rich. Films like The Menu and Triangle of Sadness had eat-the-rich sentiments and they have plenty of films condemning the actions of Wall Street. Dumb Money shows a working-class revolt against the stock market. Keith Gill (Paul Dano) is a financial advisor, a self-taught investor, […]
Scrapper is a British comedy-drama that won the Dramatic Competition of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It serves a more light-hearted take on the kitchen sink drama. Georgie (Lola Campbell) is a 12-year-old girl who has been living alone after her mother’s passing. She makes ends meet by stealing bikes and selling them to a local […]
Wes Anderson is a filmmaker known for his signature visual style and whimsical tone. He takes his directional traits to the sci-fi genre with Asteroid City. In 1955 a group of assorted people arrive in a small desert city. This includes war photographer Augie Steenbeck (John Schwartzman) and his 14-year-old son Woodrow (Jake Ryan), famous […]