Jackass Forever (2022) Director: Jeff Tremaine Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Dave England, Ehren McGehey, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña, Spike Jonze We go to the movies to see things we’ve never seen before, to be taken to exotic locations we can’t even imagine visiting on holiday, to escape the drab or even […]
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Walk, Run, Cha-Cha (2019/2020) Director: Laura Nix “Before I learned dancing, I could only use my body to walk, to swim, to run. Today I can use my body to reach another level of freedom.” 2020 Oscar-nominated documentary short subject Walk, Run Cha-Cha is a personal and personable film that feels as much as if it is
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Ema (2019) Director: Pablo Larraín Screenwriters: Guillermo Calderón, Alejandro Moreno Starring: Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini, Cristián Suárez, Mariana Loyola One of the most alive, bustling and energetic movies of 2019, Pablo Larraín’s intense and morally atypical character study combines the trademark features of some of Europe’s most provocative filmmakers
Official Secrets (2019) Director: Gavin Hood Screenwriters: Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein, Gavin Hood Starring: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Ralph Fiennes, Katherine Kelly, Indira Varma, MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Shaun Dooley Keira Knightley is the lead of a star-studded British cast for X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Eye in the Sky director Gavin Hood’s retrospective reevaluation of
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Booksmart (2019) Director: Olivia Wilde Screenwriters: Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins Starring: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte, Victoria Ruesga, Mason Gooding, Skyler Gisondo, Diana Silvers, Molly Gordon, Billie Lourd, Eduardo Franco, Nico Hiraga, Austin Crute, Noah Galvin Olivia Wilde’s ebullient directorial debut Booksmart is the coming-of-age comedy we’ve been
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Colette (2019) Director: Wash Westmoreland Screenwriters: Richard Glatzer, Rebecca D. Lenkiewicz, Wash Westmoreland Starring: Kiera Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pugh, Sloan Thompson, Arabella Weir, Mate Haumann, Ray Panthaki, Al Weaver, Dickie Beau Still Alice director Wash Westmoreland has taken to the genre of period drama with the release of 2018/19’s Colette, a portrait of the
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) Director: Rob Marshall Screenwriter: David Magee Starring: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, Joel Dawson, Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth Rob Marshall’s Disney-made, 54 years in the making Mary Poppins sequel promised to reignite the spark of magic and mischief first put to screen by Robert Stevenson
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The Favourite (2019) Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Screenwriters: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara Starring: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss, Joe Alwyn An early reading of the C word by Nicholas Hoult set the tone for Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest dark comedy, the delectable dialogue of this subversive period drama being as much of a high
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman Screenwriter: Phil Lord Starring: Shameik Moore, Chris Pine, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Velez, Zoe Kravitz, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn, Liev Schreiber Sony Pictures Animation’s hotly anticipated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse promised to take the idea of
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Blue (2017) Director: Maryam Farahzadi Screenwriter: Maryam Farahzadi Maryam Farahzadi’s thought provoking 2D animated short film Blue is a wordless journey of finding acceptance from others and within yourself, the title of the film being the colour of the 4-minute short’s protagonist in her isolated black and white paper-style world. Seen through the universe of a minimalist
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