A college student named Max recounts his childhood memories from the late 1990s, in which he becomes best friends with a boy named Arthur. As Max and Arthur gather both true and fictitious information about Arthur's neighborhood, they begin to dream up fantastical stories and fictional biographies about the eccentric people who live on Arthur's street, a mysterious place called Locust Lane.
Manoli Despines
Director
Samuel Denton
Max Smith
Lucas Centanni
Arthur Robinson
Manoli Despines
Max Smith (Voice)
Roseanne Suskin
Mrs. Schulz
Rupert Krueger
Leo Crane
Lukas Sunderlin
Leo Crane (Stunt Double)
Giochino Orrico
Liam Crane
Henry Liddy
Liam Crane (Stunt Double)
Lenny Bevilacqua
Bob Crane
Daniela Malave
Cindy Crane
Timothy Kent Smith
Mr. Dunham
My Beautiful Laundrette is often referenced as a positive LGBTQIA+ film because our two main characters are in a homosexual relationship with no shame, fear of violence or criticism. The struggle is not their sexuality. It is the treatment of the Pakistani citizens in England.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
Based on the bestselling memoir, viewers get a glimpse of the challenges of autistic people.
In 'Maestro,' we're left with an impression but not with an understanding of the main character.