Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda (Ana de Armas) are unhappily married, still together to keep up a thin façade for their daughter Trixie (Grace Jenkins). The older Vic is mostly passive as his wife flaunts her infidelity at every opportunity, but when her litany of lovers begin to disappear one by one, suspicion begins to…
Category: Contemporary
The Feast
Glenda (Nia Roberts) enlists the help of Cadi (Annes Elwy) in preparing a rich feast for her family and associates at their country estate. She wants to make a good impression of a happy successful family despite their perceived shortcomings: her husband Gwyn’s (Julian Lewis Jones) questionable skill as a provider, their older son Gweirydd…
Feast
In 2007, in the Dutch city of Groningen, three men were charged and found guilty of hosting sex parties wherein they would drug the gay men they lured to their home, inject them with syringes of HIV-positive blood, and leave their unconscious bodies strewn about the city. Tim Leyendekker directs Feast, released by Mubi in…
Cobalt Blue
When a nameless tenant (Prateik Babbar) moves into a vacant upstairs room at a Fort Kochi estate, his presence greatly disrupts the traditional family dynamic. The stunning and mysterious heartthrob catches the attention of Tanay (Neelay Mehendale), the middle child of the family and an aspiring poet, as well as Anuja (Anjali Sivaraman), the youngest,…
Turning Red
Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) is a preteen girl like any other growing up in the early 2000s in Toronto. She hangs out at school with her friends, goes home to assist with the family chores, and still finds time to fawn over the boy band, 4*Town. Everything is great until one morning when Meilin wakes up…
Umma
When the remains of Amanda’s (Sandra Oh) mother (MeeWha Alana Lee) – or Umma in her native language, Korean – are brought to the bee farm Amanda runs with her daughter, Kris (Fivel Stewart), Amanda wants nothing to do with seeing to the burial of her estranged mother. Discontent with being hidden away in storage,…
Gagarine
Cité Gagarine was a Soviet-constructed housing project built in France in 1963 and named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The complex would eventually come to house many immigrants from Europe to France, until its condemnation in 2019 and subsequent 16-month long demolition. Gagarine is a touching eulogy of a film that follows Youri (Alséni Bathily), a…
Infinite Storm
Pam Bales (Naomi Watts) is an experienced mountain hiker who takes a personal trip on the Jewell Trail near Mt. Washington, NH each year as a form of meditation and time for personal reflection. The weather takes a turn for the worse when the temperatures start to drop, and a blizzard sets in. As the…
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Apollo 10 ½ was a secret NASA mission before to famous moon landing of Apollo 11. After a lunar lander was built just a little too small, NASA had to ensure that the vessel was still serviceable, so they recruited a young Stan (Jack Black) to test out the spacecraft. While the country had their…
The Marquee Topic 