The Boy and the Heron is written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. At the beginning of the film, Mahito loses his Mum in a drastic fire. A year after this, he and his father move from Tokyo to the countryside to live with his new stepmother, Natsuko, who is pregnant. Mahito isn’t…
Prequel to The Hunger Games series, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is written by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt, directed by Francis Lawrence, and is based on the novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. It follows Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) as a young man who does everything in his power to keep his…
Rustin, directed by George C. Wolfe, and written by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, is a biographical film about civil rights activist, Bayard Rustin, and his role in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. At the beginning of the film, a conference that Bayard (played by Colman…
Directed by Sofia Coppola, Priscilla is a delicate look into Priscilla Presley’s relationship with Elvis, starring Cailee Spaeny in the titular role, and Jacob Elordi as Elvis. It is based on the book, Elvis and Me, by Priscilla Presley, who also produced this film. While her military family is stationed in Germany, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu meets…
Cynara takes another look at the case of Cindy Ali, who was accused of killing her daughter, Cynara, in 2011, and asks if the ruling of the court was the right one. Through interviews with different people involved in the case, it builds a picture of what might have happened that day, as well as…
Pedro Almodóvar’s short film, Strange Way of Life, opens with an establishing shot of a man riding his horse across the desert landscape, letting you know that, if you were unsure before, this is indeed a Western. But underneath that establishing shot is a melody sung by a ‘balladeer’ (Manu Rios) whose only job in this film…
From director, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, City of Wind follows Ze, a seventeen-year-old shaman in Mongolia who manages his responsibilities as shaman, a student, and a son really well until he falls in love. Now, he finds himself having new desires that interfere with his duty as shaman of the community. It is a coming-of-age story where you…
When a pregnant Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) finds her husband, Hyun-su (Parasite’s Lee Sun-kyun), sleep talking one night, and when his actions in his sleep become increasingly harmful, she insists that they visit a doctor who diagnoses him with a sleep disorder. However, a shaman insists Hyun-su’s condition is supernatural. The couple does everything they can…
Have you ever left a theatre and felt like your heart was in the sky? That would happen to me every time I went to the cinema as a kid; it would take me such a long time to return to reality afterwards. Now, possibly because I’m always watching something, those moments are few and…
When it becomes clear that their father in hospice care is nearing the end of his life, three sisters move into his apartment to take care of him and be there when he passes. They are three different women with different ways of handling the situation and His Three Daughters shows them clashing as they…
