A Haunting in Venice

A Haunting in Venice

A Halloween séance ends in murder in A Haunting in Venice. Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) has retired from murder investigations and is now living in solitude in Venice. However, Poirot is visited by his old friend, mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), who invites Poirot to join her at a Halloween party hosted by palazzo…

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro co-directed a new stop-motion version of the classic story with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Distraught over the death of his young son Carlo, wood-carver Geppetto (David Bradley) carves a pine tree into a puppet made in Carlo’s likeness before collapsing into a drunken stupor. Feeling sympathy for the grieving man, a Wood…

House of Gucci

House of Gucci

A woman marries into the powerful fashion dynasty in House of Gucci. Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) is a young woman working at her father’s trucking company, who at a party meets Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), the son of Rodolfo Gucci (Jeremy Irons), who co-owns the Gucci fashion house with his brother Aldo (Al Pacino). Despite…

Searching Eva

Searching Eva

The life of a sex worker and blogger is followed over the course of three years in Searching Eva. Eva Collé is an Italian-born sex worker living in Berlin, who shares the experiences of her life on her blog. Eva’s constantly changing life is followed over the course of three years, following her through Berlin,…

John Wick: Chapter 2

John Wick: Chapter 2

Lethal assassin John Wick is once again forced out of retirement in John Wick: Chapter 2. After tying up loose ends by recovering his stolen car from Russian gangster Abram Tarasov (Peter Stormare), John Wick (Keanu Reeves) prepares to once again retire from the life of an assassin. However, Wick is approached by Italian crime…

Spring

Spring

A man finds love with a woman with a monstrous secret in Spring.  Following the death of his mother, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) goes into a personal tailspin, which includes getting into a bar fight that costs him his job.  Looking for a change of scenery, Even travels to Italy and gets a job working…

The Special Need

The Special Need

Enea is a 29 year old Italian man with autism, who works in a textile factory.  He has never been in a sexual relationship and is often trying to pick up girls, though they more often than not ignore his advances.  Enea’s friends Alex and Carlo (the film’s director) decide to help Enea have his…

Pompeii

Pompeii

From director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) comes the disaster epic Pompeii.  Milo (Kit Harington) is a young Celtic gladiator whose entire family was killed by Roman forces lead by Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland). Milo is brought to the city of Pompeii, where he enters a rivalry with gladiator champion Atticus (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and attracts the…

Almost Human

Almost Human

On Friday October 13, 1987, Mark Fisher (Josh Ethier) was one of two men to disappear on during a series of strange events that occurred that night in a town in Maine.  His friend Seth (Graham Skipper) insisted that strange lights in the sky were the cause of Mark’s disappearance.  Two years later, Mark suddenly…

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

After creating a number of cult classic TV series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Dollhouse, Joss Whedon finally received some major mainstream success last year as the director of The Avengers.  With this huge success behind him, you are left wondering what Whedon would choose to do next.  It turns out the…