Kyrene is the Vindica Ultis, the chosen warrior of Shiket, the Goddess of Justice. With her talking (to her at least) sword Zefiah, also known as the Blade of Retribution, she is seen by others as a hero. But she doesn’t see herself that way. But now someone has offered …
Alan Ritchson’s gift for stillness and subtle facial expressions is put to exceptional use in “Cage Fight.” There is also some audience pandering – screengrabs of which are all over social media already, but it would be churlish to spoil that fun – that makes it clear this season really …
The Owens women have a very long history of magic in their blood. Magic is a curse their ancestor, Maria Owens, placed on them. Almost three hundred years ago, she was sentenced to hang for witchcraft by the man she loved, the father of her child. As she faced her …
In a small Romanian town, Marius (Adrian Văncică) is the medical chief at the local hospital. He just lost his wife, and his son, Ioan (Teodor Butănescu), is almost finished with high school. This is the setting of You Don’t Belong Here (Nu e locul tau aici) by Florin Şerban. …
Tang is the powdered drink mix marketed as enjoyed by astronauts and which purportedly had more vitamins and minerals than orange juice. One of the guests at the titular wedding, Guy (Xavier Lacaille), has recently become its regional head of sales so at one point he goes into his full …
A female Korean superfan featured in Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, speaking through tears, provides the best explanation possible for Oasis’ appeal: they are not a band that hectors you to get up when you fall down. They are a band that falls down beside you; they know themselves …
Films festivals normally only reward a movie one single prize. If your movie wins, say, best actress, then it can’t also win the main festival award. But the jury led by Maggie Gyllenhaal at this year’s Venice Film Festival broke that rule for Woman Unknown: its lead actress Mathilde Arcel …
The 1980s in Southern California were a completely different world. Left to themselves by neglectful parents, drugs, sex, and rock and roll ruled Bret Ellis and his friends’ world. And in the summer of 1981, a new playmate appears who threatens to destroy their social world. What’s more, a serial …
Who knew 2026 would involve so many family movies about flocks of British sheep solving crimes? If this is a trend I hope it lasts forever because The Sheep Detectives was adorable and Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is even more so. A stop-motion animated film with …
Long Wu Ying knows his place in the world. As a farmer’s son, he doesn’t expect much, and he’s learned to be content with what he has. He is very aware of the inequalities that exist in life, but he also knows that the world won’t change just because he …
The Owens family is an interesting study. A family of bloodline witches who are born with incredible power and a powerful curse. We first met them in Alice Hoffman’s book Practical Magic. Sister Sally and Gillian face evil and learn to love more, not less. In Hoffman’s book, we go …
Critics have been enjoined not to spoil Karma’s big plot twist, which basically means we’re not supposed to mention two-thirds of the film. Normally that would be a problem, but Karma’s initial set-up is so preposterous that everything which follows just gets more and more ridiculous. This is just an …
It’s all been leading to this: America first watched as Doom began to mess with the multiverse. Then she tried to warn. Then she interfered. Now she’s downright fighting him. But she can’t do it alone. She’ll need to pull a team together. And what a weird team it is. …
Something is wrong. Someone is changing things, and the effects are rippling across the multiverse. In this world, Betsy Braddock, the misfit sister of Captain Britain, knows someone is missing. She can’t tell you who it is or where they’re missing from; she can just feel their absence. Sorta like …
Nagi is a real town in rural Japan. It is next to a ‘self-defence force’ base which uses live ammunition in its training. As compensation for the constant sounds of shooting in the background, the town was given a world-class art museum, the Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art. There is …
We must congratulate director Andrey Zvyagintsev both for winning the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and for using his thank-you speech to ask Putin to stop the carnage of the war in Ukraine. Mr Zvyagintsev now lives in exile in France thanks to his political beliefs, but …
The French title of this film, Garance, is the uncommon name of the heroine and also that of the flower which is known in English as the rose madder. The choice to use Another Day instead of something like “Rose Madder” for the English title dampens the effect of that …
Hollis Shaw has it all: a famous doctor husband, a daughter at NYU studying film, and a super popular food blog with a following that thinks she’s a domestic goddess. But then, in a shocking moment, she sees it all come undone. Her husband passes away in an accident right …
I’m so excited! My favorite time of year is almost here. That time when the days get a little colder, the nights start a little sooner, and the shadows seem a little more sinister. I’m talking about SPOOKY TIME! I love to sit down with some hot cocoa, light a …
Tony is a love story, but not the kind we are used to. It is about the love a young man has with his wide-open future, supported by slightly older roughneck men who understand 1) exactly how this young man is falling in love 2) and that he has no …