A teenage girl goes on an adventure to return a monkey-like creature home in The Legend of Ochi. Yuri (Helena Zengel) is a farm girl who lives on the island of Carpathia with her militant father, Maxim (Willem Dafoe), and adopted brother Petro (Finn Wolfhard). Maxim leads a militia of local teens, who live in …
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The issues of race, class, and gender in 18th century Britain are looked at in Amma Asante’s period drama Belle. Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is the illegitimate, bi-racial daughter of a Royal Navy admiral (Matthew Goode). She is left in the care of her uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson), who raises her, along with …
It’s definitely been a busy holiday season for Steven Speilberg, with War Horse being the second film of two simultaneous films directed by him to be released this season. The film is adaptation of the novel and stage play (which actually opens in Toronto next month). The film tells the story of a horse named …