The Polynesian wayfinder gains a crew to try and break an island curse in Moana 2. Three years after restoring her people’s status as wayfinders, Moana (Auliʻi Cravalho) finds a clue about other people living across the ocean. While performing a ceremony with her father Chief Tui (Temuera Morrison, Moana has a vision of her…
The Tony Award-winning musical hits the big screen with Wicked: Part One. Due to being born with green skin, Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) has been subjected to much prejudice, particularly from her father Governor Thropp (Andy Nyman) of Munchkinland, who gives preferential treatment to Elphaba’s wheelchair-bound sister Nessarose (Marissa Bode). While accompanying Nessarose to Shiv…
This is an expanded rewrite of our original review published as part of our coverage of Fantasia 2024 A yuppie loser finds his home trashed by a trio of mischievous freaks in Frankie Freako. Conor (Conor Sweeney) is a yuppie office worker, whose boss Mr. Buechler (Adam Brooks) doesn’t believe his upcoming presentation is “spicy”…
A man on the brink of an ending marriage finds out one day that he has disappeared from the real world in The Invisibles. Charlie (Tim Blake Nelson) is a man who is not only dealing with being turned down for a coveted promotion, but he is struggling with the aftermath of a personal tragedy…
During the end of the world, billboards begin appearing thanking an accountant for 39 great years in The Life of Chuck. Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a schoolteacher whose classes begin to dwindle due to seemingly apocalyptic events in the world. Marty begins to see billboards and advertisements congratulating Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) on “39…
A horror-themed punk band are sent to a farm to record a hit song in The Gesuidouz. Hanako (Natsuko) is the leader of The Gesuidouz, a punk-rock band with lyrics using the titles of horror films. The band’s manager is frustrated that nobody knows that The Gesuidouz’s first album “Toxic Avengers Infinity War” exists and…
An architect uses a powerful building material to create a Utopian city in Megalopolis. Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) is the head of the design authority in the city of New Rome, who won a Nobel Prize for developing the infinitely malleable and miraculously strong building material megalon, which he has been using to reshape sections…
The ghost with the most returns after three decades in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Three decades after nearly being forced to marry Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) puts the her powers as a medium to use as the host of the paranormal TV series Ghost House, with her dating the show’s producer Rory (Justin Theroux)….
A murdered man comes back to right the wrongs that were committed in The Crow. While serving time in a rehab facility, Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård) meets and falls for Shelly Webster (FKA Twigs), who he helps escape from Marion (Laura Birn), a woman working for Vincent Roeg (Danny Huston), a crime lord who made…
A 13-year-old girl joins a revolt against an abusive all-girls protective custody shelter in Rita. After fleeing from her abusive family, 13-year-old Rita (Giuliana Santa Cruz) and sent to a projective custody shelter. Rita stays in a ward, where the other girls, including Sulmy (Ángela Quevedo), Bebe (Alejandra Vásquez), and La Terca (Isabel Aldana), all…
