Palm Beach is an unchallenging and pleasantly distracting Australian take on dining-table dramedies, providing just under 100 minutes of low-stakes entertainment through its playfully comedic cast of veteran actors.
Rory’s Way, also known as The Estrucan Smile, features Brian Cox as Rory, a perpetually growling but lovable rogue of a Scotsman who spends his days whittling wooden creatures and verbally sparring with an old nemesis in the local pub over which of them will die first.
Imagine there’s no Beatles, I wonder if you could. Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) has teamed up with Screenplay writer Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually), to create a world that many music lovers would consider unthinkable. Starring: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, Kate McKinnon
Spider-Man: Far From Home is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming and the twenty-third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – it could also be the best Spider-Man film we’ve ever had. Dir: Jon Watts Starring: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Jon Favreau, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jacob Batalon, Samuel L. Jackson, Angourie Rice, Marisa Tomei.
Netflix premiered director Martin Scorsese’s new Dylan “documentary” based on 1975’s Rolling Thunder Revue. Here’s what The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda think about it.
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Sophie Turner, Jennifer Lawrence Running just short of two hours, X-Men: Dark Phoenix is an awkward, painful, and unnecessary mess that fails both as a comic-book adaptation, and an entertaining superhero film.
Starring: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl Award-winning German film, Never Look Away makes its New Zealand premiere this week. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda has seen it, and is impressed.
Starring: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard After taking over from Bryan Singer on Bohemian Rhapsody, Dexter Fletcher gets a well-deserved directors credit for Rocketman.
starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Anjelica Huston, Halle Berry Keanu Reeves returns as the unkillable underworld boogeyman in John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, delivering some of the best action scenes in the highly stylised franchise amidst a convoluted overall narrative.
Starring Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez Chase Champion director Michael Chaves makes the move to the big screen with mixed results.