Written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives), The Neon Demon is an incredibly visually striking film that tries to dig deep at the fashion world, but unravels in its second half, becoming grotesquely cartoonish. Jesse (Elle Fanning) is an aspiring young model that moves to LA in the hopes of making […]
Sweet Bean [An], directed by acclaimed Japanese director Naomi Kawase (The Mourning Forest, Still the Water) is a sweet and beautiful small-town drama about a struggling food vendor whose small shop becomes incredibly popular when an elderly woman shares her sweet red bean paste recipe with him. Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) grudgingly runs a small dorayaki […]
Goat Goat, directed by Andrew Neel and co-written by Neel, David Gordon Green and Mike Roberts is based on the acclaimed memoir by Brad Land. 19-year old Land (Ben Schnetzer) starts college in a campus where his older brother Brett (Nick Jonas) has already made a name for himself. Desperate to belong, Brad decides to […]
With Star Trek Beyond approaching at warp speed, promotion in Australia has revealed some groundbreaking new info! Talking to the Herald Sun, actor John Cho has confirmed that his character, Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu is gay! The best part about it is that the movie isn’t going to make a big deal out of it […]
DC’s Suicide Squad movie is less than a month away from release, and still the plot details we’ve heard about are few and far between. Since the trailer’s release we’ve known the general premise: Viola Davis’ gender-bent Amanda Waller puts together a team of imprisoned villains to do the dirty work the government needs doing […]
Almost Holy documents the story of Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a Ukrainian pastor saving children from the streets of Mariupol. Steve Hoover draws us in and shines light on a situation too long left in the dark. Like in his 2013 documentary Blood Brother, Hoover does not shy away from the horrors he presents, but neither does […]
The Legend of Tarzan, directed by David Yates is overly formulaic and has a lot of flaws, but it’s still a passable action-adventure propped up by a good cast and likable characters. John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgård), after being raised by an ape in Africa and becoming known under the name Tarzan, has returned to London […]
