Aloners, 2021.Written and directed by Hong Sung-eun. Starring Gong Seung-yeon, Jung Da-eun, Seo Hyun-woo, and Park Jeong-hak.SYNOPSIS:A solitary woman re-evaluates her isolated existence after her neighbor dies alone in his apartment.People’s inability to connect with others face-to-face has been one of the most psychologically defeating aspects of the pandemic, causing isolation and loneliness to become […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Comala
Comala, 2021.Written and Directed by Gian Cassini.SYNOPSIS:A man’s journey to face the scattered members of his dysfunctional family and understand the life of his absent father, a failed hit man murdered years ago in a Mexican border town.Part-investigative journalism, part-moving familial mosaic, Gian Cassini’s filmmaking debut Comala sees the director re-examining his own sprawling family […]
Christopher Nolan shopping World War II atomic bomb movie around Hollywood
It’s a rather strange situation when the big news about a new Christopher Nolan project isn’t the movie itself, but rather the fact that the filmmaker is currently shopping said project around the major Hollywood studios as his long tenure at Warner Bros. looks to have come to an end.Nolan was one of the biggest […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows, 2021.Written and directed by Michael McGowan. Starring Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon, Mare Winningham, Amybeth McNulty, and Donal Logue.SYNOPSIS:The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.Michael McGowan’s (Still Mine) adaptation of […]
The Essential Tony Leung Films
Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential Tony Leung films…With boyish good looks, charisma and immense gravitas, Tony Leung has been mesmerising audiences for over 40 years. As well as an ability to convey so much through saying so little, he also has the rare ability to drift between genres as comfortably as anyone. He’s been […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Violet
Violet, 2021.Written and directed by Justine Bateman. Starring Olivia Munn, Justin Theroux, and Luke Bracey.SYNOPSIS:Violet realises that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.Actor Justine Bateman makes a disarming filmmaking debut with a bold, skillfully wrought drama about the destructive power of one’s own […]
Warner Bros. announces Middle-earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition 4K box set
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment that all six films in Peter Jackson’s epic saga are set for release in a 31-disc Middle-earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition box set featuring the movies in 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray; check out the […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Story of My Wife
The Story of My Wife, 2021.Written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi. Starring Gijs Naber, Léa Seydoux, and Louis Garrel.SYNOPSIS:Sea captain Jacob Störr makes a bet in a café with a friend to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.Ildikó Enyedi follows up her outstanding 2017 Oscar-nominated drama On Body and Soul […]
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts set video shows Optimus Prime’s G1-inspired truck mode
As filming on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts continues under director Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II), a spy video has surfaced from the set of the seventh Transformers movie which show heroic Autobot leader Optimus Prime in his truck mode – and we’re talking, iconic G1-inspired truck mode here. Take a look for yourself… […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – Jockey
Jockey, 2021.Co-written and directed by Clint Bentley. Starring Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker, and Moisés Arias.SYNOPSIS:An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.Clint Bentley has entered the world of feature films with a powerhouse in the form of […]
