Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) is a cook who is under the employ of Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel), a gourmand with a lovely estate in the French countryside. Through their many years together, Dodin has fallen in love with Eugénie, though she continually rejects his proposals of marriage but will sometimes entertain his nightly advances. One summer,…
Damsel
Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) is promised to Prince Henry (Nick Robinson) of Aurea, a marriage arranged by her father, Lord Bayford (Ray Winstone), and his mother, Queen Isabelle (Robin Wright) which will bring riches to her home kingdom, lifting the people out of poverty and give them a chance to survive the winter. After the…
The 96th Academy Awards
The film year 2023 can be most accurately described in a word: Hot. Be it the hot, sandy beaches at Barbie World, the heat of an atomic reaction, or of course #HotLaborSummer. The year started off with the promise that Covid-19 was behind us, and movies were back in the cinema, but a 6-month long…
Spaceman
Jakub (Adam Sandler) has been traveling through space for over 180 days towards a mysterious Chopra Cloud that has scientists fascinated because it may contain the secrets of the origin of our universe. Alone on the station, he communicates to Earth through the Czech Connect, and while he can always contact Peter (Kunal Nayyar) from…
Rouge
In an opulent flower house in the 1930s, Fleur (Anita Mui), one of the premiere courtesans, falls in love with Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung), known colloquially as The Twelfth Master, a wealthy heir to a large pharmaceutical company. Forbidden by the family to marry, the two star-crossed lovers forge a suicide pact rather than live…
Perfect Days
Hirayama’s (Koji Yakusho) life is defined by routine. He wakes in the morning to the sounds of the streets coming to life, waters his plants, dresses for work and collects his things, grabs his coffee from the vending machine, then presses play on the cassette tape du jour after smiling up at the Tokyo Skytree…
Dune: Part 2
Shortly after the War of Arrakis led to the extermination of House Atreides at the hands of the Harkonnens, Emperor Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken) expects spice production to resume with the planet being turned back over to its former masters. The Fremen, though, will not allow that to happen and with their army led by…
Monster
Saori (Sakura Andô) is a single mother raising her son, Minato (Soya Kurokawa), after her husband passed away. The two celebrate the patriarch’s birthday while elsewhere in town a fire rages at a popular bar in which rumors say Mr. Hori (Eita Nagayama), Minato’s 5th grade teacher, frequents the club. Hori’s relationship with Hirona (Mitsuki…
The Promised Land
After serving in the German Army, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) retires and seeks permission from the Danish Royal Court to cultivate and colonize the Jutland moorland, a barren stretch of land and an unfulfilled passion project of the King’s for some time. If successful, he asks in return from the Court to bestow upon…
The Marquee Topic 