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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD (2019)
When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn’t the only Night Fury, he must seek ‘The Hidden World’, a secret Dragon utopia, before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.
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10 Highlights of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival has once again stirred up controversies with a shocking Michael Jackson documentary (Leaving Neverland) and Ted Bundy biopic (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) both making headlines. Aside from those, it was a relatively safe year with no walkouts and very few divisive screenings. It was also a festival for women,…
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 2.3 – ‘Point of Light’
After last week’s comforting throwback “New Eden“, Star Trek: Discovery was back to its choppier self with “Point of Light”, lacking narrative focus and essentially wanted to dump information across three subplots jostling for attention. Perhaps most disappointingly, Ensign Tilly’s (Mary Wiseman) hallucination of a dead friend she barely knew as a teenager, Amy (Bahia…
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THE FIFTH CORD (1971)
An alcoholic journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer after the police make him a suspect in their investigation.
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CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (2018)
When a struggling biographer falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
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GREEN BOOK (2018)
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the Deep South during the 1960s…
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THE POSSESSED (1965)
A visitor arrives in a small Italian village looking for a woman. Residents tell him that she committed suicide but there’s more to the mystery than they’re letting on. Meanwhile, a strange woman walks by the lake.
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POLAR (2019)
The world’s top assassin is about to retire when his employer marks him as a liability to the firm, so must go head to head with an army of younger killers…
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DAVE MADE A MAZE (2017)
Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation.
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 2.2 – ‘New Eden’
This felt like classic Star Trek, I’m pleased to say. “New Eden” may have relied on well-worn formulas and ideas, but it was a good example of them. Star Trek: Discovery proved it’s capable of doing old things in a way that feels fresh, which is perhaps why Trek veteran Jonathan Frakes (Riker in The Next…
