I have been quietly but eagerly awaiting I’m Thinking of Ending Things since the trailer was released earlier this summer. A melancholy piece about breakups, an all star cast and written by Charlie Kauffman, who penned Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (top 25 of all time for me), it sounded like a perfect film […]
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On paper, the concept behind She Dies Tomorrow is an intriguing one – “Amy thinks she’s dying tomorrow…and it’s contagious..”. And when we featured the trailer in one of our recent TrailerChat posts, it certainly sparked a lot of interest among the team too, with the trailer providing just enough mystery to make us want
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Tenet? I’m sorry, no, THIS is actually the biggest movie release of the week. Well, it is when you’re currently having to isolate at home and cannot go to the cinema for a few weeks. Despite that, I was actually way more excited for this to hit Disney+ this morning than a man my age
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OK. What just happened? “Don’t try to understand it” is the advice given to John David Washington’s unnamed protagonist early on in the film. As a viewer, this could be interpreted as Nolan issuing us either a warning or a challenge… I’m still not sure which, but I know fans will certainly be decrypting Tenet for many years to come. Hats (and masks) off to whoever did understand the film on their first viewing. I’d say this is perhaps one of the most ambitious mind-bending projects I’ve
Originally scheduled for a cinematic release, but now arriving on Disney+ instead, The One and Only Ivan is the latest in a long line of stories involving CGI animals who can talk, banding together to outsmart us humans in order to escape captivity. Only this one is actually based on a true story. There were
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Christopher Nolan’s first feature, Following – a small “no-budget” experiment – is a fitting introduction to all of the trademark tropes that have appeared throughout his career ever since. About as noir as they come, complete with gritty black-and-white film and a femme fatale, it centres around an unemployed, aspiring writer (referred to as ‘Bill’
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A new short film releasing on demand on 21 st August, We Die Alone takes an uncomfortable look at modern dating, the difficulty of human connection and our pre-determined judgements of others. Aidan spends his time online dating but can never work up the courage to make it to the dates, instead staying home and
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A film about first love and dying of cancer – Babyteeth sounds like another YA romance filled with earnest sentiment and cute tropes, instead we get a film that feels real and lived in. Breakthrough star Eliza Scanlen (best known as Beth from 2019’s Little Women) fills the screen with captivating energy as Milla and
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A fish-out-of-water movie where Seth Rogen plays two members of the same family, brought together following an accident which left one of them preserved in brine for 100 years? It’s a wacky premise, and with Rogen in the title role, you’d probably form a pretty good idea of how this might play out as a
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The concept of an entire movie playing out on a computer screen isn’t exactly a new one. A great example of this style of filmmaking was 2018 movie Searching, which I am a huge fan of. Back in 2014, Unfriended took the online chat room and managed to turn it into a horror movie, proving
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The opening credits for Unhinged paint a pretty bleak and horrific snapshot of human life, just to get us in the mood for what’s to come. Footage of actual road rage incidents, supermarket disagreements and brawls, cars crashing into each other, all while recordings of news readers talk about how stressed and angry we all
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Business startup partners Charlie (Dan Stevens) and Mina (Sheila Vand) are celebrating the success of their company by looking at Airbnb rentals for a weekend getaway. As Mina casually rests on Charlie, looking over his shoulder at the amazing, but expensive house they’re thinking of renting, you get the impression they are a couple. That
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A Beanie Feldstein led coming of age film centered around her love of music? It should be a perfect film for me, but after seeing the trailer a few months back, I was concerned. With some trepidation I clicked play on Amazon Prime this weekend. I’m not even sure how I made it to the
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The Story of Plastic is an enlightening documentary that has been running as part of the Sheffield Doc Fest 2020 line-up. The documentary takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. Spanning three continents,
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I loved the first Kissing Booth movie and I think I must have watched it thousands of times. Since watching it, I’ve read all of the books in the series, the main one, the two on-the-side novellas and the newest: “The Kissing Booth – Going the Distance”, which is what this film is based on.
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Following Amadi, a musician from Lagos who travels to São Paulo to search for his missing older brother, Shine Your Eyes captures beautiful imagery but fails to capture the emotion from it’s protagonist. The narrative is somewhat straight forward, Amadi discovers his brother has been lying to those back home. Instead he has been g
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