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Jesse Eisenberg is in front of the camera and behind it. It’s always an interesting time, when actors begin to write and direct their own movies, because now we get to see the stories that appeal to them, and the … Continued

The Pope has died, and Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is in charge of overseeing a conclave, where Cardinals from all over the world have been sequestered to vote on the next one. However, moments before the Cardinals are meant … Continued

I’ve said it already, but the best double feature movie experience I ever had was Call Me By Your Name into The Florida Project. We thank Luca Guadagnino for the first one, but director Sean Baker gets credit for the … Continued

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) finds out an old friend, Martha (Tilda Swinton), is in the hospital, with a cancer diagnosis, undergoing an experimental treatment with swirling results. But Martha has had enough, and asks Ingrid to accompany her on a quaint … Continued

2025 is here, but 2024’s award season still rolls on! And now is when movies really hit their straps – most of the best movies of the year come out in Australia in January. I’ve seen teasers for Nosferatu, that … Continued

Do you remember when the Smile trailer gave away the best scare of the movie? The driver side window moment! I watched Smile with a bunch of mates who hadn’t seen it, and they jumped through their skivvies, while I … Continued

If I take my fan boy cap off for a while, I am able to see how Jon Favreau was able to make The Lion King (2019) his own, on a second viewing. I have argued that these Disney live-action … Continued

Following an elaborate introduction, a young Sergei Kravinoff (played by Levi Miller, and later Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and his brother Dmitri (Billy Barratt/Fred Hechinger), are taken out of school by their father, Nikolai (Russell Crowe), after their mother dies. Nikolai takes … Continued

Here’s Venom, the Alvin and the Chipmunks of the superhero genre, in the sense that “I can’t believe this franchise is already a trilogy” 😄 Actually that’s harsh, mainly because I haven’t seen the Chipmunk movies to value their worth. … Continued