If all you’re after is monsters, chases, CGI explosions, fighting and two popular action stars (who do get an opportunity to fight each other, never fear), then this may well work for you.
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power.
The story may be slight, and a subplot involving sailors and Snow White's dad ending all at sea on the silly side but the selfie-satire is sharp and the visuals are never dull.
Modern selfie-style retelling of Snow White set against the backdrop of a gym.
Despite all the outrageous and mostly un-simulated activity, there is a real sensuality to the couple's contact, as well as a sad undertow to their sadistic influence upon each other.
This isn’t just a tale of Chinese manipulation, however, as Wang goes on to show how America, too, played down the story initially, in ways that chillingly mirror what happened in Wuhan.
How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover-ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party? An essential narrative of first-hand accounts of the coronavirus, and a revelatory examination of how propaganda and patriotism shaped the outbreak’s course – both in China and in the US.
The characters speak naturally about the things in their life, and the film trusts us to piece together the essential information.
On a journey that spans across the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
A tale that has a textured solidity, a mythological weight.
Christian nobleman Eneko must fulfil the promise he made to his late father, to protect and lead his people into the new era. To do so, he must recover his father’s body, buried next to Charlemagne's treasure. However, despite his faith, he needs the help of his childhood friend, the pagan Irati.
It’s a film deeply informed by love of cinema, beautifully photographed even when all it’s depicting is feet running on a wooden surface or inexplicable shots of cabbages.
An anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet and an expert soup-maker also plays in a competitive basketball league. There’s only one problem with his hobbies: finding a babysitter to look after his daughter.
Liubyi’s film succeeds in bringing home not just the enormity of the crash itself but of the scale of what was lost aboard.
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot's body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.
Efron...brings patience and grace to a role which could have been played much more conventionally, and elevates the whole.
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.
In a post-apocalyptic future after an event called 'The Quiet Rapture', a convict explores a blood ocean on a desolate moon using the submarine Iron Lung to search for missing stars/planets.
Sadly, there is not a funny enough script or any particularly amusing performance to provide a backbone to hang the visualisations on, leaving Iron Sky as a more of a showcase for what low-budget filmmaking can achieve in terms of effects.
Nazis return from a 70-year sabbatical on the Moon back to Earth, where they plan to violently return to power.
The story is not as well-developed as it should have been but it’s an enjoyable enough treat for Allen fans for whom he can do no wrong.
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
The potential for violence and creeping paranoia haunt the film, but though some elements of it may feel murkier than others, there's always a sense that Matulevicius and his cinematographer Narvydas Naujalis are in control.
Skeletons rattle in the closet of a film director and his friends, 20 years after an infamous massacre.
After publicly clashing in a debate over the concept of Islamic reform in the Muslim world, prominent atheist philosopher Sam Harris and Islamist-turned-liberal-Muslim Maajid Nawaz reconnect in an attempt at civil and honest dialogue.
This is an unflinching portrayal and, those who are recently bereaved or are in that large group of the populace - including myself - who have ever watched a loved one succumb to terminal illness, should approach it with extreme caution.
Damian’s visual treat of a film offers contemplation on ecological disaster, capitalism, and solitude, all within a story that could be described as a surreal anthology of images.
A surreal comedy based on a reinterpretation of Robinson Crusoe.
The actors...own their characters with considerable skill which helps to paper over any deficiencies in the script
Tom, a tennis coach at a luxury hotel, has his life changed when a new family arrives. Matters take a dark turn when the husband disappears and both Tom and the wife become suspects.
The Islands And The Whales knows when to be small, and its intimate portraits of day to day life illustrate how the monumental intersects with the personal.
The relationship between the Faroe Islands and whales.
Supporting its central idea with additional themes around identity, perception and mental illness, The Island Between Tides weaves a beguiling tale.
A young woman follows a mysterious melody onto a remote tidal island. When she crosses back over at the next low tide, she emerges into a world where 25 years have passed.
Punching well above its weight, this is a film unashamed of its own smallness and willing to take risks in service of the story.
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realise that someone - or something - is hunting them.
