Released for good behavior after five years in prison, Marcel Jacquin, a former robber, is welcomed by his granddaughter, Justine. His son, a police officer, has not shown him any sign of life since he was arrested. The grandfather will return to service, but this time, for a good cause, according to Justine. A medical student, a young man needs his grandfather's talents to break into the safe of a pharmaceutical laboratory that he suspects of culpable embezzlement. Justine wants to prove that the laboratory is testing, completely illegally, an experimental vaccine on the civilian populations of an African state at war. The evidence is kept in the safe, and whoever says forced safe necessarily says Marcel...
As a huge fan of Sean Baker’s Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket, I’ve wanted to watch Anora since before it even was released. But life got in the way, my watchlist grew, and honestly, the fact that it was marketed as a romantic comedy put me off. Even with all the critical praise and the five Academy Awards it won last year, I just kept postponing it indefinitely.
This HBO mini-series asks why a young white man turned to violence and finds no easy answers. But why do we only ask questions about certain kinds of killers?
'The Fablemans' is Spielberg's most personal work to date, the cast delights audiences at the TIFF premiere.
Who knew a drunken game of truth or dare could launch one of the most chaotic rom-coms of the year? The Threesome takes Connor’s fantasy night with Olivia (Zoey Deutch, in peak queen-of-indie form) and Jenny (Ruby Cruz) and flips it into a deliciously messy nightmare when both women end up pregnant. What follows isn’t cheap comedy—it’s a whip-smart, heartfelt exploration of love, consequence, and the beautiful disasters we call adulthood.
Films staring black transgender actresses/actors are few and far between, it’s refreshing to see a demographic represented in film that hardly gets any attention. This is especially important as the Black trans community has been shown in studies to face the highest level of discrimination amongst general trans and non-binary groups. That is why it’s so crucial that we amplify their voices through any way we can, storytelling being a great medium to do so.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
