Marcello is a young man who, beneath the clear-cut plans he has for his future and firm visions about the world, is still discovering himself. By his side there is his best friend Gioele, an unalloyed dreamer. For him, time seems to stop underneath the clouds of their childhood, while Marcello is ready to set off to the big city and start his adult life. During their last summer together, the two embark on an excursion to find the mythical "leap's waterfall", a journey that will prove revealing. Throughout the search for the waterfall, the two will discover themselves and each other truths.
In a film where a Black couple is framed to be the lead characters, they still managed to get shuffled off to the sidelines. The enthusiastic cast delivers well on goofy bits- but can only go so far before they begin to fall flat.
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Honey Don't! is a chaotic queer noir that's part detective story, part midnight movie madness. Margaret Qualley is fantastic as the wise-cracking private eye Honey, with Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans adding their own dry humor to the mix. The mystery itself is pretty loose, but the film makes up for it with crackling sexual tension, weird side characters, and razor-sharp dialogue. It's messy and uneven, but in the best possible way.
The definition of the word foul is “offensive to the senses,” which is a pretty good summation of the new Disney+ film, Artemis Fowl
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.
