A famed private investigator looks into the mysterious death of a mystery writer in Knives Out. The morning after his 85th birthday, famed mystery writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead of an apparent suicide. Following the funeral, police Lieutenant Elliott (LaKeith Stanfield) and Trooper Wagner (Noah Segan) are joined by private investigator Benoit…
An oil tycoon refuses to pay the ransom for his kidnapped grandson in All the Money in the World. John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) is an incredibly successful oil tycoon, who made billions drilling and shipping oil from the Saudi desert. In 1973, Getty’s 16 year old grandson John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) is kidnapped…
A British psychiatrist goes on a soul searching journey for happiness in Hector and the Search for Happiness. Hector (Simon Pegg) is a London psychiatrist, who lives a tidy, uncomplicated, satisfactory life with his girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike). After a particularly bad day, Hector decides that he needs to get away and find out the…
A British psychiatrist goes on a soul searching journey for happiness in Hector and the Search for Happiness. Hector (Simon Pegg) is a London psychiatrist, who lives a tidy, uncomplicated, satisfactory life with his girlfriend Clara (Rosamund Pike). After a particularly bad day, Hector decides that he needs to get away and find out the…
There was a question I asked myself many times while watching David Fincher’s English-language adaptation of the novel by Stieg Larsson: If I didn’t previously see (and enjoy) the original Swedish adaptation, would I have liked this film better? The answer I came up with was: probably not. I thought that Fincher’s version of the story…
Beginners can definitely be described as a quirky about the relationship between a father and a son. The film follows three stories over the course of the film, which take place over different time periods. In the main story, Hal (Christopher Plummer) comes out as gay to his son Oliver (Ewan McGreggor), shortly after the death…
Priest is the second religion-based action/horror collaboration in a row between director Scott Stewart and star Paul Bettany. I thought that, their previous film, Legion had a campy glee to it, which made it an enjoyable film. I can’t really say the same about this film, which takes place in a futuristic society where the church has totalitarian rule and priests…
The big selling point of the latest Disney/Pixar film is that it is the first such film to be shown in 3D. However, since pretty much every animated film is shown in 3D these days, that is not a surprise. One thing that was surprising about Up is how dramatic it was during the opening…
