Studio Ponoc gets spirited away with its unrefined Ghibli-esque musings, The Imaginary manages to do so with sincerity making for a much-needed reminder of the necessity of creativity during a time when things seem especially bleak.
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Don’t go in expecting to be blown away, and ‘Damsel ‘ should do just fine. Just make sure you’ve got your plot-armor, and possibly a few glow worms for safe measure, too.
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Perhaps just when we needed a film like this, enter Netflix’s Spaceman - a deceivingly simple drama that does more than drink and dribble. Questions of love, time and space, and redemption float aimlessly among the cinematic stars, away from a grounded Adam Sandler who may have just delivered his best performance yet.
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‘First Play’ serves more as a thriller than a drama though and takes a certain level of comfortability with serious topics to be able to watch. Hopefully, with it’s success on the platform, Netflix will go back to giving more artists a creative domain to showcase their newest works.
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Sure, there is a talking cricket and a compendium of other colorful characters, but Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is totally - and tonally - different from any of the other adaptations, which is possibly why it is one of the best films of the year.
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Thomas M. Wright’s The Stranger is the latest in a long time of true-crime dramas in Netflix’s extensive catalog, and thanks to the director’s astute eye for detail and dedication to the film’s dark and hopeless atmosphere, it manages to stand out as one of the streaming service’s best.
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Featuring an all star cast, and one of the biggest names in comedy, Judd Apatow’s new comedy The Bubble attempts to poke fun at the heartless state of Hollywood blockbusters yet tragically falls victim to the very tropes he’s mocking.
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Don’t Look Up is largely, a disappointment. All the ingredients for a great film are there: an original, intriguing premise, plenty of incredibly talented actors, an acclaimed director/writer, and a story that feels extremely relevant in our current society. But sadly, the film is thrown together in such a rushed and careless way that it becomes mostly uninteresting and forgettable
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With her directorial debut, ‘Bruised’ is new ground for Berry, even as she also stars in the lead role of Jackie Justice. Jackie is a woman who once fought in the UFC, and is now an aging train wreck of a human being. She lives with her equally washed-up manager and boyfriend Desi (Adan Canto), as they wallow in failure and alcoholism.
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