Australia
A writer who never knew she needed to live by the ocean until she lived by the ocean
Terrence Malick's latest film is a deep, meditative study on conscience and consequences. Based on the true story of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, a farmer who refused to swear loyalty to Hitler during WWII and was jailed for his dissidence, A Hidden Life is a visual feast conveying a heartbreaking tale.
Zak is twenty-two years old and wants to be a pro-wrestler, but there's a problem. Zak has Down Syndrome. He's also stuck living at a nursing home and has just been labeled a flight risk. Tyler (Shia LaBeouf) has stolen from the wrong crew and is now on the run.
Ever wanted to see a hipster Elijah Wood scream absurdities at the corpse of his deadbeat father? Well, Ant Timpson delivers just that and other kooky scenes in his first feature film, Come to Daddy. Opening with a line from Shakespeare followed by a Beyonce quote, Come to Daddy was never going to be your run-of-the-mill family reunion film.
Strong friendships are born out of shared experiences. In its first season, Dead to Me took this notion and stretched it to the nth degree. Despite the fact that Judy (Linda Cardellini) accidentally killed Jen's (Christina Applegate) husband in a tragic hit-and-run and then purposefully wrangled her way into the grieving Jen's life, the two women formed a strong bond that seemed to defy their circumstances.
Ryan Murphy's Hollywood is exactly what it says it is, a mini-series set in post-WWII Hollywood following "an ambitious group of aspiring actors and filmmakers will do almost anything to make their showbiz dreams come true."
Like everyone with access to the internet, I saw the two baffling trailers to Cats. The trailers are the epitome of creepiness and I would gleefully show them to friends/acquaintances/work colleagues who mentioned they were yet to set eyes on the CGI cat celebrities, so I was fully expecting the film to be a slightly off-color cinematic experience.
18 June 2018 I am a petty person. Whenever someone says they're from a small town, I ask them the name of the town and then quietly Google the population. Then I grin like the cat that got the cream because my small town is almost always smaller than their small town and it gives me a strange sense of superiority.
I left the screening of The Mule Googling "how old is Clint Eastwood?" (88) and "is Clint Eastwood a good actor or have we all been duped?" (undecided). Starring Eastwood, directed by Eastwood and produced by Eastwood, The Mule is the Hollywood legend's latest passion project, based on the New York Time's article "The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule".
An overwhelming majority of my town's population is elderly. For a town so small, an alarming percentage is affected by Parkinson's disease. While Parkinson's is predominantly associated with the elderly population, old age can't be circled in red pen and labelled the sole cause of the disease when the likelihood from suffering from the shakes is higher in rural Australia.