British born Theo James plays an American diplomat in Backstabbing for Beginners, a Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Ontario co-production directed by Per Fly and co-starring Ben Kingsley. A young man wants to fulfil his late father’s idealism in international politics by joining the UN. He is readily accepted, maybe too quickly, and is assigned to work for the Under Secretary overseeing the… View Post
Brady Jandreau is the central figure in Chloe Zhao’s multi-award winning feature The Rider about a rodeo rider who suffered a head injury and its aftermath. Zhao won the C.I.C.A.E. Award at Cannes and the film has gone on to tremendous success on the festival circuit. Jandreau plays a fictionalised version of himself, as do his family members and friends… View Post
Avengers: Infinity War – Disney / Marvel – This is action packed, ultraviolent, funny at times especially in sequences starring Chris Pratt as Peter Quill and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, with whimsical, eager beaver gems from Tom Holland as Spider Man. Thanos, played by Josh Brolin and Loki, Tom Hiddleston, are on a deadly mission to recover five gems… View Post
Wim Wenders directs Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy in Submergence romantic tragedy of two who meet in a French seaside hotel. She’s a bio mathematician contemplating a deep sea submergence dive in waters off Greenland to collect samples from the ocean floor. It’s perilous and unnerves her but she must fulfill her mission. He is an MI5 spy focusing on terrorists in… View Post
Thirty years from now, Earth is in bad shape. It’s heavily polluted and dangerous and may not last much longer. The Robinsons are tested and cleared to leave for a space colony and brighter future, but after John and Maureen Robinson and their children Judy, Penny and Will set off they crash land in an icy alien planet. Together… View Post
Stephen S. Campanelli, Clint Eastwood’s cinematographer directs the gripping and powerful Indian Horse, starring young Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck and Ajuawak Kapashesit. They play Canadian First Nations boy Saul Indian Horse over twenty years. He is kidnapped from his family by government officials as part of a shameful 100 year plus government policy to eradicate Indians, and put into a residential… View Post