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Movie Review – Nouvelle Vague (2025)

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Nouvelle Vague, 2025.Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck, Aubry Dullin, Alix Bénézech, Paolo Luka Noé, Tom Novembre, Jade Phan-Gia, Nicolas Dozol, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier, Bruno Dreyfürst, Adrien Rouyard, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Matthieu Penchinat, Laurent Mothe, Jonas Marmy, Benjamin Cléry, Côme Thieulin, Roxane Rivière, Niko Ravel, Antoine Besson Blaise Pettebone, Pauline Belle, Léa Luce […]

Movie Review – Rental Family (2025)

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Rental Family, 2025.Written and Directed by Hikari. Starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Akira Emoto, and Shannon Gorman.SYNOPSIS:Fraser plays an American actor adrift in Japan, hired by a rental family agency to “perform” roles in the lives of strangers. A father connecting to a daughter he doesn’t know, a second player for a man […]

Movie Review – The Running Man (2025)

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The Running Man, 2025.Directed by Edgar Wright. Starring Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, Colman Domingo, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, William H. Macy, Emilia Jones, David Zayas, Katy O’Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Sean Hayes, Thalía Dudek, Matt Ramos, Martin Herlihy, George Carroll, Sandra Dickinson, Georgia Goodman, and Sophie Simnett.SYNOPSIS:A man joins a game show […]

Movie Review – The Carpenter’s Son (2025)

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The Carpenter’s Son, 2025.Written and Directed by Lotfy Nathan. Starring Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe, FKA twigs, Isla Johnston, Souheila Yacoub, and Kaiti Manolidaki.SYNOPSIS:A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.Inspired by events in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, writer/director Lotfy […]

Movie Review – Hamnet (2025)

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Hamnet, 2025.Directed by Chloe Zhao. Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn.SYNOPSIS:A story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet arrives with ideal credentials: a celebrated source text, the backing of Steven Spielberg and Universal Pictures, and a […]

2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Hamnet

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Hamnet, 2025.Directed by Chloe Zhao. Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal. Joe Alwyn, Emily Watson, Jacobi Jupe, and Noah Jupe.SYNOPSIS:A powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.Shakespeare’s works are known the world over, and his personal life has been examined before on screen, notably in Shakespeare in Love. […]

Movie Review – Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025)

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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, 2025.Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, Rosamund Pike, Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Daniel Radcliffe, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Thabang Kamogelo Molaba, Myah Banton, Lyssandra Skye Arias, Paisley Day Herrera and Mali McEwan.SYNOPSIS:The Four Horsemen return along […]

Movie Review – Keeper (2025)

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Keeper, 2025.Directed by Osgood Perkins. Starring Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Birkett Turton, Eden Weiss, Logan Pierce, Claire Friesen, Christin Park, Tess Degenstein, Glen Gordon, Erin Boyes, Erin Tipple, Gina Vultaggio, Evelyn Burke, and Ella Wejr.SYNOPSIS:A romantic anniversary trip to a secluded cabin turns sinister when a dark presence reveals itself, forcing a couple to confront […]

Movie Review – Nuremberg (2025)

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Nuremberg, 2025.Written and Directed by James Vanderbilt. Starring Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O’Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Lotte Verbeek, Richard E. Grant, Michael Shannon, Andreas Pietschmann, Steven Pacey, Peter Jordan, Dan Cade, Paul Antony-Barber, Ralph Berkin, Roderick Hill, Wolfgang Cerny, Jeremy Wheeler, Donald Sage Mackay, Alex Diehl, Dieter […]

Movie Review – Trap House (2025)

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Trap House, 2025.Directed by Michael Dowse. Starring Dave Bautista, Bobby Cannavale, Kate del Castillo, Jack Champion, Sophia Lillis, Whitney Peak, Tony Dalton, Inde Navarrette, Zaire Adams, and Blu del Barrio.SYNOPSIS:A DEA agent and his partner pursue thieves: their own rebellious teens, who began robbing the cartel using their parents’ tactics and classified intel.Wasting a rather […]