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 …
It’s still somewhat unusual for movies out of China to be made in one of their quote-unquote minority languages, and it’s a bit odd to refer to Teochew, which has approximately 20 million speakers, as a minority language. But within the context of the one billion people in China, that’s …
Talk about a shocker: Wilson Fisk, A.K.A. The Kingpin is dead. Matt Murdock doesn’t know how to process it. But that’s okay because he doesn’t have time. Daredevil is too busy running around town putting out the fires that Fisk’s death has started. Bad guys are coming out of the …
Now why might a work of art about a group of – well, not people, but cute protagonists – whose lives have been damaged by a major corporation’s terrible products strike a nerve? Coyote vs. Acme is a howl against how everything is getting worse all the time, and how …
For years, Morfran has been the Dark Lord ruling over Ruthven with his Dark Lady Ravana. But lately it’s all gotten a little ho-hum, and he’s feeling like he needs something more from life than beheading his enemies and torturing dissenters. So he decides to make a run for it, …
If I make you a delicious sandwich, which you eat and think is delicious, then inform you that mixed in with 99% of bread, mustard, salami and cheese is 1% sh*t, then it was a sh*t sandwich. If you still think it was delicious after knowing that you’ve just eaten …
Olive Smith loves rom-coms: funny, cute meets, impractical circumstances, unlikely love- it’s great. But not when she’s living one! You see, her best friend, Anh, is really into a guy that Olive dated like once and didn’t even like that much. But Anh won’t date him because of “girl-code”. Olive …
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town. What a perfect opening line. Immediately, you are drawn in. Who are the Owens women? Why are they blamed for everything? Why not the Owens men? You have to keep …
The life of an octopus can be exciting. Living in the sea, adapting to your surroundings. Hunting for your meals while avoiding being eaten yourself. And always something new to see and explore. Unfortunately, that’s not Marcellus’s life. He was “rescued” from the sea when he was only a few …
The absence of any major American films from this year’s Cannes Film Festival competition allowed room for some French films to sneak in. The Birthday Party aka Histoires de la Nuit is a film which would have never otherwise been allowed to compete for the Palme d’Or. It’s the kind …