Priscilla (2023)Director: Sofia CoppolaScreenwriter: Sofia CoppolaStarring: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk It ought to be an impossible task to follow up Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley extravaganza. Like the man himself, Luhrmann’s Elvis was a pageant of spectacle, leaving no stone unturned as it followed the infamous King of Rock and Roll from […]
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The Power of the Dog (2021) Director: Jane Campion Screenwriter: Jane Campion Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee What hides under the surface of men? Is masculinity, in the simplistic terms we understand it, equal to power? To answer these questions, Jane Campion takes us to a time when men roamed the
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One Night In Miami (2020) Director: Regina King Screenwriter: Kemp Powers Starring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Lance Reddick, Christian Magby If you could pick any four people in the world and put them in a room together, who would you choose? For Regina King, those four people would be: The
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Supernova (2020) Director: Harry MacQueen Screenwriter: Harry MacQueen Starring: Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci “Being sad something is gone just means it was great whilst it was there.” A middle aged couple set off on a long road trip to see important places from their past, all the while learning to adapt as one of them
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Undine (2020) Director: Christian Petzold Screenwriter: Christian Petzold Starring: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz, Anne Ratte-Polle Undine, the 2020 Christian Petzold drama set in Germany’s capital city of Berlin, and nominee for the Berlin International Film Festival’s coveted Golden Bear (Best Film Award), is a film that operates both as a social-realist
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Kajillionaire (2020) Director: Miranda July Screenwriter: Miranda July Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger, Gina Rodriguez The phrase ‘normal family’ is oxymoronic; there is no archetype for normal. Society may have swallowed down commercialised, and capitalist fuelled notions of the perfect family: frequent, home-cooked meals, white picket fences and perfectly tuned emotional bonds.
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Herself (2020) Director: Phyllida Lloyd Screenwriter: Clare Dunne, Malcolm Campbell Starring: Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill “You can’t be dead! We need you for chips!” Having already gained itself an unbeatable score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after its premiere at Sundance Film Festival back in January 2020, Herself will resonate with audiences worldwide
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The Painter and the Thief (2020) Director: Benjamin Ree Starring: Karl Bertil-Norland, Barbora Kyslikova “The art of life and life on art” – The Painter and The Thief shows both of these things in their rawest form. From the struggles of addiction to the power of friendship, this documentary from Benjamin Ree follows Barbora Kyslikova, an
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