Love can be killer. In Kill, Amrit (Lakshya) is an army commando who is deeply in love with Tulika (Tanya Maniktala). However, when he discovers that she’s been engaged against her will, Amrit decides to board her New Delhi-bound train with the hopes of stealing her away. However, when the train is taken over by ruthless…
Love them or hate them, Gru and his banana-chomping Minions are back. After over a decade, the Despicable Me franchise continues to embrace its ridiculousness with increasing enthusiasm. By now, Illumination knows what works for them. Unbridled wackiness and the occasional bum or poop joke are common ammunition in their canon. This is a world where the…
There’s no place like Orbona. (Well, almost nowhere.) WondLa focuses its story on Eva (Jeanine Mason), a 16-year-old teenager who has been raised in an underground bunker by Muthr (Teri Hatcher), her robot caretaker. However, after an attack forces her out of her home, Eva discovers that the surface is not anything like she was led…
No matter how old you get, everyone dreads their high school reunion. In Reunion, Mathew (Chace Crawford) and Ray (Lil Rel Howery) may not be living their best lives but they’re (mostly) happy. After they receive an invite to their high school reunion though, suddenly their lives don’t seem so glamourous. One of them a local…
No one can accuse Yorgos Lanthimos of playing it safe. Having created such films as The Lobster and Poor Things, the acclaimed writer/director is known for creating tales that challenge the viewers mind (and, sometimes, patience). With the release of Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos creates another visual puzzle box inside an enigmatic mystery. For him, there’s joy in the…
If a perverted cab driver offered to solve all of your problems on your ride home, would you let him? Daddio is a slow burn but it will take your stomach through every emotion known to mankind. Written and directed by Christy Hall, this drama follows a woman’s (Dakota Johnson) taxi ride to her New…
Directed by Jake Paltrow, June Zero begins with the news that Adolf Eichmann has been sentenced to death by an Israeli court. This is not, however, a film about Eichmann or his trial. Rather it is a set of three stories that are on the periphery of that historical event. The different stories remind us…
In his directorial debut, Dev Patel stars as Kid, a man making a living losing fights in an underground fight club under the alias ‘Monkey Man’. Kid suffers trauma from his childhood, having watched his mother die at the hands of a police chief, Rana Singh. Now an adult, he plots his revenge on the…
By Robert Bellissimo “Je, Tu, Il, Elle” was Chantal Akerman’s debut feature film from 1974. She co-wrote the script with Eric De Kuyper, and Paul Paquay. Chantal is also the star of the film, alongside Niels Arestrup, and Claire Wauthion. The film is about a young woman named Julie, (Chantal Akerman) and is told in…
The social politics of school has always been difficult to navigate… but Black Butler takes it to another level. Black Butler: Public School Arc reunites Ciel Phantomhive (Brina Palencia) and his demonic servant, Sebastian (Michael Tatum) as they infiltrate Weston College, Great Britain’s most prestigious public school. Tasked with uncovering why multiple students—including the son of the Queen’s…
