A morbidly obese man tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter in The Whale. Charlie (Brendan Fraser) is a homosexual English professor who ballooned in weight after the tragic death of his partner. After having a near-fatal heart attack, Charlie is told by his nurse and friend Liz (Hong Chau) that he will die […]
The legendary hero loses confidence when he finds himself down to his last life in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. After his latest adventure, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) finds himself on the wrong side of a falling bell. Informed that he is now down to his last life, Puss decides it is time
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A recently orphaned teenager creates a replacement family consisting of recently deceased corpses in The Loneliest Boy in the World. Oliver (Max Harwood) grew up under the incredibly sheltered care of his mother (Carol Anne Watts), who died in a freak accident the previous year. While psychiatrist Julius (Evan Ross) wants to commit Oliver to
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A screenwriter struggling with writer’s block travels to a remote inn with her elderly mother in The Eternal Daughter. Julie Hart (Tilda Swinton) travels with her elderly mother, Rosalind (also Swinton), to an isolated manor that was once their family home but is now operating as an inn. Accompanied only by the Receptionist (Carly-Sophia Davies)
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We return to the world of Pandora in Avatar: The Way of Water. It has been 13 years since Jake Sulley (Sam Worthington) was permanently transferred into his Navi Avatar and became the leader of the Omaticaya along with his mate Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). Together they have three biological children, Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo’ak (Britain
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A family tries to deal with the aftermath of an “Airborne Toxic Event” in White Noise. Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) is a college professor living with his fourth wife, Babette (Greta Gerwig) and their four children. The lives of the family change when a railway tank car crashes outside of town, releasing an unknown toxin
A cinema manager connects with her new employee in Empire of Light. Hilary (Olivia Colman) is the duty manager of the Empire Cinema, located in a 1980s English coastal town. Steven (Micheal Ward) is a new employee hired at the cinema, which also includes the manager Donald Ellis (Colin Firth), who is engaged in an
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The lives of two Indian revolutionaries cross paths in RRR. In 1920 during the British Raj, Govoner Scott Buxton (Ray Stevenson) and his wife Catherine (Alison Doody) forcibly abduct a young girl named Malli (Twinkle Sharma) from the Gond tribe in Adilabad. Malli’s brother Komaram Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.) travels to Delhi to rescue
Disclaimer: My thoughts on Bones and All are based on the content of this work of fiction and do not support nor condone the act of cannibalism A teenage girl battling cannibalistic urges goes on a cross-country trip to locate her birth mother in Bones and All. Maren Yearly (Taylor Russell) is a teenager whose
Three American filmmakers get more than they bargained for when investigating a ghost story in rural Quebec in Curse of Aurore. Casey Nolan, the host of the YouTube series Mind Seed TV, plays a video off a thumb drive found in a Dark Web mystery box. On it is footage shot by American filmmakers Aaron
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