A the El Royale, a once high-class hotel on the border of California and Nevada, several strangers converge in 1969. The audience knows that ten years prior, a deceased man hid a treasure of some sort within the floorboards of one of the hotel’s rooms, but there is no early indication about what is in…
Director David Gordon Green and his collaborator Danny McBride are not who you’d expect to be behind the sequel of John Carpenter’s?1978 slasher film?Halloween?thirty years later. But Jamie Lee Curtis is back as ex-babysitter Laurie Strode, who has no peace of mind at having seen Michael Meyers (James Jude Courtney) locked away in a mental…
This is a new telling of the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25ff.). Jesus spoke that parable in answer to the question ?Who is my neighbor (who the Law says I must love)??
With the return of THE GRINCH in theatres, Illumination attempts to revive a Christmas classic. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular villain, this version of the famed holiday fable creates some different sensibilities from past versions. This week, Steve welcome ScreenFish’rs Heather Johnston and Alan Sharrer to talk how the story has changed, social justice…
Winner of the award for Best Story from the Los Angeles Animation Film Festival, The Magical Mystery of Musigny?is a short film that tells the story of John, a man whose life has been irrevocably altered by sipping a glass of Musigny wine. However, because his experience is so powerful, he struggles to communicate its…
Winner of the award for Best Story from the Los Angeles Animation Film Festival, The Magical Mystery of Musigny?is a short film that tells the story of John, a man whose life has been irrevocably altered by sipping a glass of Musigny wine. However, because his experience is so powerful, he struggles to communicate its…
?Love?s love and that?s that.? A pair of star-crossed lovers are the focus of Pawel Pawlikowski?s Cold War, Poland?s entry for Best Foreign Language Film consideration. Set in the years following the Second World War, it moves back and forth between the Communist and Democratic worlds, but it is not the geopolitical situation that is…
Laurel and Hardy was one of the greatest comedy duos of all time. ?They bumbled their way into the hearts of audiences that have spanned generations.?Stan & Ollie, from director Jon S. Baird, is both an homage to brilliance of their comedy, and an examination of what friendship means.
Ten-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) goes to live with his oddball uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious `tick tock’ noise. He soon learns that Uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) and his feisty neighbour, Mrs Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett), are formidable magicians. When Lewis accidentally resurrects a deceased enemy, the town’s sleepy facade suddenly springs…
There is throughout the film a sense that for Van Gogh painting was in many ways a spiritual exercise.
