A mixed-race teenager begins a secret relationship with the popular boy at her school, following her parents’ divorce in InBetween Girl. Angie Chen (Emma Galbraith) is a teenage girl in Galveston, Texas, born to Chinese father Fai (KaiChow Lau) and white American mother Veronica (Liz Waters). In the aftermath of her parents’ sudden divorce, Angie…
The divorce of a young couple becomes increasingly less amicable in Marriage Story. After a decade of marriage, actress Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and theatre director Charlie (Adam Driver) have decided to split up. Cast in a new TV role, Nicole travels with her son Henry (Azhy Robertson) home to Los Angeles, staying with her mother…
Three six graders try to recover a drone, so they can attend a party in Good Boys. Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L. Williams), and Thor (Brady Noon) are three six grade best friends, who get excited when Max is invited by the cool kids to a kissing party, which gives Max the opportunity to…
The review was originally published as part of my coverage of Hot Docs 2017 A group of scientists work towards making fusion a reality in Let There Be Light. Stars draw on a vast reservoir of energy and if that energy can somewhat be harnessed on Earth, it can provide clean power for generations. That is…
A group of scientists work towards making fusion a reality in Let There Be Light. Stars draw on a vast reservoir of energy and if that energy can somewhat be harnessed on Earth, it can provide clean power for generations. That is the theory behind nuclear fusion, which scientists around the world have been trying…
Spike Jonze returns as the writer and director of this very unconventional love story. Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) is a socially awkward man, whose job involves writing love letters for other people. Theodore is currently in the middle of a divorce with his wife Catherine (Rooney Mara) and finds himself quite lonely, with his only real…
It all begins with the desire of one Iranian woman to leave Iran for a better life. Her husband does not want to leave and instead wants to stay and care for his father with Alzheimer’s. The couple file for divorce and so begins a series of events that will tear their family further apart….
Back in my December movies of the moment column, I listed Walk Hard, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, and this film as films that I was unlikely to all see. While it’s true that I never managed to see them all in December, it is now January and here I am with the final of those…
This year’s holiday season is jam packed with films I’d like to see, so here is the third film I’ve seen within a week’s timespan (with at least one or two more planned before the end of the holidays). This has been a killer year for producer/director Judd Apatow, whose films Knocked Up and Superbad…
