An actor begins work for an agency that hires stand-in roles for strangers, making unexpected connections in Hakiri’s feel-good tragicomedy Rental Family.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Hamnet [2025]
William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their children deal with the ups and downs of life in the poignant and powerful Hamnet, directed by Chloe Zhou from the Maggie O’Farrell novel.
It: Welcome to Derry – Episode 5: 29 Neibolt Street [2025]
In the 5th episode of It: Welcome to Derry, “29 Neibolt Street,” both ends of the story converge in the sewers to try to face and/or capture Pennywise.
Beast of War (2025)
A troop of Australian soldiers have to survive the elements, enemy advancements, and a nightmarish great white, after their ship sinks in the Timor Sea during their journey to the Pacific in World War 2, now on Shudder as of January 2026.
Wicked: For Good [2025]
Elphaba, “The Wicked Witch of the West”, is hunted by various forces, including The Wizard of Oz and her BFF Glinda the Good, in John M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, the lesser second half of the Broadway adaptation.
Blue Moon [2025]
A mesmerising Ethan Hawke stars as lyricist Lorenz Hart as he talks his life and troubles to anyone who will listen on an eventful 1943 night in Richard Linklater’s incredible Blue Moon.
The Island Closest To Heaven [1984] [Cult Epics LE]
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia to seek what her father called “The Island Closest to Heaven” in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s travelogue melodrama; in a new Blu-Ray from Cult Epics.