Moxie (2021) Director: Amy Poehler Screenwriters: Tamara Chestna, Dylan Meyer Starring: Hadley Robinson, Lauren Tsai, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nico Hiraga, Josephine Langford, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Poehler, Marcia Gay Harden Moxie takes place at East Rockport High, a school in which misogyny thrives. Seriously, none of the boys at East Rockport High have any respect […]
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Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Directors: Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Paul Briggs, John Ripa Screenwriters: Qui Nguyen, Adele Lim Starring: Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Izaac Wang, Gemma Chan, Benedict Wong, Daniel Dae Kim, Sandra Oh, Alan Tudyk With the release of Raya and the Last Dragon comes a sigh of relief. A breath
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Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Screenwriters: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Starring: William H Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell, Kristin Rudrüd, Larry Brandenburg, John Carroll Lynch The Coen Brothers famously claimed “This is a true story” before the main titles of their 1996 black comedy crime film Fargo. Many of the film’s
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Director: Wes Anderson Screenwriters: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola Starring: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances Mcdormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward Wes Anderson’s career dipped slightly in the middle to late 2000s with The Darjeeling Limited and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou earning relatively mediocre reviews, yet
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Sweetheart (2021) Director: Marley Morrison Screenwriter: Marley Morrison Starring: Nell Barlow, Jo Hartley, Tabitha Byron, Sophia Di Martino, Samuel Anderson, Ella-Rae Smith, Steffan Cennydd Being forced on a seaside holiday with your entire family as a painfully awkward teenager is a British right of passage. It’s even worse for the kids submerged in any kind
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Tom & Jerry (2021) Director: Tim Story Screenwriters: Kevin Costello Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Ken Jeong, Pallavi Sharda What could one hope to expect from a Tom and Jerry “live-action” film? Most animation-meets-reality films are rather bland, formulaic cash-ins on famous cartoon characters, and it’s hard to say Tom
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Riders of Justice (2020) Director: Anders Thomas Jensen Screenwriters: Anders Thomas Jensen, Nikolaj Arcel Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Andrea Heick Gadesberg, Nicolas Bro “Nothing is for certain,” says an old man to his granddaughter, convinced that her wish for a new bicycle will come true. Little does she know just how
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Screenwriter: Dan Fogelman Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon, Marisa Tomei, Analeigh Tipton, Jonah Bobo Well-written and lavishly-casted romantic comedies have been somewhat hard to find in recent years. The most memorable rom-coms of all time are positioned neatly in the
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Rocks (2020) Director: Sarah Gavron Screenwriters: Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson Starring: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’Angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson, Sarah Niles The British film industry has a strange fixation with putting on appearances. Looking at Oscar winners and nominees of years past, the films our small isle pushes forward the most are royalty, literature
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The Dig (2021) Director: Simon Stone Screenwriters: Moira Buffini, John Preston Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ken Stott, Ben Chaplin, Monica Dolan In recent months we have all had time for more introspection than usual, and we have each been faced with a seemingly endless barrage of moral conundrums and existential
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