Argylle: Own Your Story

Argylle tells the story of Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard), a reclusive writer who lives in the creativity of her mind. As the author of the best-selling spy novels featuring the brave and brutal ‘Agent Argylle’ (Henry Cavill), Elly’s best relationships are with her loving parents, her cat, Alfie, and her computer screen. But, after her novels…

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4.10 Anger, Loss and Grace in THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

With the release of this week’s Oscar nominations, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI cemented itself as an Oscar favourite with multiple nominations. Starring Francis McDormand and Sam Rockwell, BILLBOARDS is an intense drama (or is it a comedy?) and Steve welcomes back Shelley McVea to discuss the film’s interest in loss, anger and the power…

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Mr. Right: Looking Too Hard

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra),?Mr. Right?takes audiences places that films like?Killers?or?Grosse Point Blank?went before: into the heart of the rom-com, only this time, there are assassins. Playing on Anna Kendrick’s good girl persona, the film follows Martha, as she rebounds from an unfaithful boyfriend into the arms of Francis (Rockwell). Somehow, Francis had…

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Don Verdean: A Spoof of Biblical Proportions

“From the minds who brought you?Napoleon Dynamite?and?Nacho Libre…” That should tell you enough?as you watch?a film about what happens when an archaeologist runs out of real Biblical artifacts to hunt for and starts making them up. Sam Rockwell stars as the digger-turned-gravedigger Don Verdean, while?Flight of the Concords’?Jemaine Clement serves as his Israeli partner-in-crime Boaz….

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