Directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, Wicked: For Good covers the second act of the 2003 stage musical — which itself was loosely based on Gregory Maguire’s novel, which was loosely based on L Frank Baum’s book… which is based on, well, Oz.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or deep in a creepy forest with no Wi-Fi signal, you’ll be familiar with the eternal “man vs bear” question.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone, who makes the absolute most of her limited screen time.
Erebus, Cave Creek, White Island, and Pike River. In a country the size of New Zealand, where six degrees of separation is a very real construct, our national disasters are writ large upon the collective psyche.
Roofman gives Channing Tatum the opportunity to show off his acting chops as the real-life spree robber Jeffrey Manchester who relieved a succession of McDonalds franchises of their takings and hid out in a Toys are Us store.
Somewhere between revolutionary satire, absurdist road movie, and a reminder that family can be whatever you choose to make it, lies Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another—a film so strange it shouldn’t work. And yet, it might just be a masterpiece.
Eva Victor’s (Billions) directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, is an original, wrenching, and practically perfect film. It’s a quietly devastating look at female friendship and the lasting impact of trauma, all told with a wonderful balance of tenderness and humour.
In The Great Lillian Hall, a legend of cinema plays a legend of theatre playing a Russian aristocrat in Michael Cristofer’s sensitively handled study of art imitating life.
Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian is a twisty little frog-in-hot-water number that starts out eerie and slow, then subtly turns up the heat to nerve-jangling proportions.
Bride Hard – tried hard. Do I take this lazy, thrown-together snoozefest as my next big matrimonial-based blockbuster? Absolutely not, and neither should you!
