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Arco is an animated film from France that explores themes of family and the environment and serves as Ugo Bienvenu’s feature 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 than […]
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 […]
Misguided is a sitcom pilot made for Channel 4’s Comedy Blaps series of one-off shorts. Rhiannon (Lauren Morais) is an ex-popular girl who is forced to join the most unpopular organisation imaginable: the Girl Guides. She has to spend a day with nerdy good-girl Kate (Nerys Amber Stocks), Libby (Meg Alexandra), who likes older men, and Nisha (Nia […]
Tuner is a crime drama directed by documentary filmmaker Daniel Roher, serving as his narrative film debut. Niki White (Leo Woodall) is a piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis. When he takes a job to tune a piano at a wealthy client’s house, Niki meets Uri (Lior Raz), the owner of a security company who is […]
There’s something to be said for a show that is up to its neck with actors of a certain age who have decades of experience in front of the camera. It’s not always true that this particular line-up leads to television gold, but more often than not – especially when paired with an interesting, unique […]
Passenger is a film that combines an American road movie with supernatural horror. Tyler (Jacob Scipio) and Maddie (Lou Llobell) are a couple who move out of their Brooklyn apartment and travel America in a van. After witnessing a car accident in Tennessee, Maddie begins to see a scary figure she can’t escape. The couple […]
The Star Wars universe makes its big cinematic return after a seven-year absence. This new adventure sees The Mandalorian make his cinematic debut after leading three seasons of TV. Din Djarin/The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) has been working as a bounty hunter for the New Republic. He hunts down Imperial war criminals and brings them to […]
The fact that horror is the only genre left that reliably brings in a profit due to its ability to get by on tiny budgets (see: Obsession‘s second week increase on less than $1 million) means there’s just about always a new flick coming out, if you know where to look. The low stakes also […]
Jack Ryan is drawn back into the fold when his old friend Jim Greer asks him for a favour. But when what should have been a simple exchange goes wrong in Dubai, Jack and his CIA pals are forced to work with MI6, as the ghost of black-ops past emerges from the shadows to haunt […]
There’s something about Nicholas Cage that makes him the perfect lead for a noir. His hangdog face calls back to Humphrey Bogart – as does his ability to turn that frown upside down at the right moment to show us that he’s got just enough game to pull a gorgeous dame (while still mourning the […]