Black Widow (2021) Director: Cate Shortland Screenwriter: Eric Pearson Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone 2nd July 2019. That was the last time we had a Marvel movie released on the big screen. Two whole years. That day marked the release of Spider-Man: Far from Home, a portrayal of the […]
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The Tomorrow War (2021) Director: Chris McKay Screenwriters: Zach Dean Starring: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Betty Gilpin, Sam Richardson The Tomorrow War is, essentially, about time travel. Trying to use the past to save the future. In this specific case, it’s about cobbling together a bunch of ideas and scenarios
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Freaky (2021) Director: Christopher Landon Screenwriter: Michael Kennedy, Christopher Landon Starring: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran, Celeste O’Connor, Misha Osherovich, Alan Ruck Following years of writing and directing to very little fanfare, Christopher Landon finally found a shtick that works when he directed the successful Blumhouse horror-comedy Happy Death Day. Since the success of
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Director: Mel Stuart Screenwriter: Roald Dahl Starring: Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson, Julie Dawn Cole, Paris Themmen, Denise Nickerson, Michael Bollner, Roy Kinnear, Nora Denney, Leonard Stone, Ursula Reit, Gunter Meisner Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is the rare non-Disney film that seems to have been
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F9: The Fast Saga (2021) Director: Justin Lin Screenwriters: Daniel Casey, Justin Lin Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, Michael Rooker, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell, Charlize Theron The key discourse surrounding the Fast and Furious franchise is its ever-increasing absurdity. The Fast and the
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Luca (2021) Director: Enrico Casarosa Screenwriters: Enrico Casarosa, Simon Stephenson, Jesse Andrews, Mike Jones Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Burman, Saverio Raimondo, Marco Barricelli, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Peter Sohn, Sandy Martin, Sacha Baron Cohen Pixar have returned with their most summery and optimistic film in years. Luca might not be as thoughtfully
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Enfant Terrible (2021) Director: Oskar Roehler Screenwriters: Klaus Richter, Oskar Roehler Starring: Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, Felix Hellmann, Anton Rattinger, Erdal Yildiz, Markus Hering, Michael Klammer Many biopics will go for a glamorised Hollywood treatment (especially for Hollywood idols and icons) to try and make someone seem more important, more conventionally cinematic –
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News of the World (2021) Director: Paul Greengrass Screenwriters: Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies Starring: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson, Andy Kastelic, Ray McKinnon, Mare Winningham As much as watching John Wayne galloping through the dust in countless carbon-copy, rinse-and-repeat flicks that end up on TCM at 1 in the afternoon is a
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Love and Monsters (2020) Director: Michael Matthews Screenwriter: Brian Duffield, Matthew Robinson Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Ariana Greenblatt, Dan Ewing The post-apocalyptic young adult genre has had no shortage of entries in recent years, most ranging from dismally bland to viciously grim, so what a pleasant surprise it is to find that
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Do Not Split (2021) Director: Anders Hammer A nominee for Documentary Short Subject at the 2021 Oscars, Do Not Split from Norwegian born journalist and documentarian Anders Hammer takes place across one of year of violent and impassioned protests in Hong Kong between 2019 and 2020, illustrating the efforts of the Hong Kong people attempting to rebel
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