After Harper’s (Jessie Buckley) husband, James (Paapa Essiedu), dies by suicide, she books a two-week retreat in an old country estate to heal. Owned by the affable yet odd Geoffrey (Rory Kinnear), he shows the grieving woman the grounds and leaves her be. One morning she begins walking through the woods behind the house when…
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
A love triangle between two friends. A seduction trap went awry. A chance encounter between two ex-lovers. These are the stories of love, anger, and loss that fill the screen in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s anthology Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, released in the USA by Film Movement after an acclaimed festival run. The film opens with…
Ambulance
After a bank heist goes awry, Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) are forced to hijack an ambulance to make their getaway. Things go from bad to worse when they realize that EMT Cam (Eiza González) was enroute to the hospital with an injured cop, Zach (Jackson White), in the back. The criminal…
The Lost City
Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) is a renowned romance novelist, but book after book she has grown tired of writing the same old stories following Angela and the handsome, charming Dash. Her agent, Beth (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) has booked her a tour with Alan (Channing Tatum), the cover model who the public treats as if he…
The Invisible Thread
Simone (Francesco Scianna) and Paolo Ferrari (Filippo Timi) are a few nights away from celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. One evening, however, Paolo forgets his phone at the house and Simone intercepts some texts from a mysterious Ricardo (Mauro Conte) who has been having an affair with Paolo. While this is happening, their son, Leone…
Firestarter
Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is a young girl with the incredible – and as of yet, uncontrollable – power of being able to set things on fire with her mind. The daughter of Andy (Zac Efron) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon), both with powers of their own, captures the interest of the Department of Scientific Intelligence. …
Peace by Chocolate
Tareq Hadhad (Ayham Abou Ammar) is the first member of his family to come to Antigonish as a refugee from Syria. Soon to follow are his father Issam (Hatem Ali) and his mother, Shahnaz (Yara Sabri). A chocolatier by trade and not content to sit at home, Issam begins to make chocolates out of his…
Great Freedom
In the wake of World War II, Hans (Franz Rogowski), was liberated from a concentration camp only to be imprisoned so that he may serve out the rest of his sentence for being gay. While there, he forms a careful bond with his cellmate, Viktor (Georg Friedrich), serving his own sentence for murder. After Hans’…
Nitram
The Port Arthur massacre in April 1996 which resulted in the death of 35 people and left over 20 more with injuries forced Australia to overhaul their gun laws with rapid action by their government. Remaining the deadliest massacre in modern Australia, director Justin Kurzel seeks to understand the leadup to the tragedy in his newest…
The Marquee Topic 