The Courier

In 1960, a British businessman (Benedict Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI6 and the CIA to build a relationship with a Soviet GRU officer (Merab Ninidze) who’s grown disillusioned with Krushchev.…

Immaculate

A young American woman (Sydney Sweeney) who’s a novice in an Italian convent learns one day that she’s pregnant – even though she’s never had sex. Sweeney auditioned for this…

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

300 years after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), a chimpanzee, Noa, is trying to find his kidnapped clan when he meets a human scavenger…

ABBA the Movie

After directing several ABBA videos, Lasse Hallström made this hybrid between concert movie and comedy that was seen in some corners as the band’s version of A Hard Day’s Night…

High and Low: John Galliano

Or, The Rehabilitation of John Galliano, produced by Condé Nast whose fashion magazines (including Vogue whose editor-in-chief Anna Wintour appears in the film) were an instrumental part in the rise…

Talk to Me

A group of Adelaide teenagers gather for a séance where they aim to communicate with the dead through a severed and embalmed hand. An acclaimed and popular horror movie that…

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Perhaps a certain fatigue was setting in at the time of the premiere, only a few years after another Jesus epic, King of Kings (1961). This one was targeted by…

Mother of the Bride

When Lana Winslow (Brooke Shields) goes to Phuket to see her daughter (Miranda Cosgrove) get married, she has no idea that she will be reunited with the man (Benjamin Bratt)…

Argylle

Successful spy novelist Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) goes on a train journey to see her mother, but is thrown into an adventure with actual spies and assassins. It starts…

Moonage Daydream: Journey Into Bowie

Photo: Neon It wasn’t until a few years ago that I heard of a concept called paracosm. That’s a term for a sort of world-building that you do in your…