Into this furnace step four journalists, the hard-bitten Lee (Kirsten Dunst), the charming Joel (Wagner Moura), the world-weary Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson), and the novice Jessie (Cailee Spaeny). Their efforts to document what is almost certain to be the complete collapse of the U.S. test each of them in ways …

It’s easy to see why The Prisoner might appeal to Nolan. Its themes of the individual vs. an imposing bureaucracy, life in a surveillance state, physical and temporal dislocation, and the loss of identity are all ideas that the director has touched on in previous works, ranging from Memento (2000) …

The story is a meditation on youth, growing up, and memory, reminiscent in some ways of Ray Bradbury’s work, and Reiner captures the tone of King’s novella in what is now considered one of the best adaptations of the author’s work (the cast includes a young River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, …

Equilibrium (2002) Barely released in theaters, writer-director Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium stars Christian Bale as John Preston, a “Cleric” in a post-World War III society where emotion has been outlawed and suppressed through a powerful drug called Prozium. All materials that can provoke an emotional response, including all forms of art, …

The Wachowskis have frankly never matched or surpassed that first Matrix film, with the three sequels falling into near-incoherence and, in the case of the latest one (The Matrix Resurrections, directed solely by Lana), pointlessness. They scored again with the dystopian V for Vendetta (2006), but while Speed Racer (2008), …

That passenger seems to be Kang, and whereas he and Janet strike up a fast friendship, we uncover by means of the remainder of the film how that relationship curdled, with Kang changing into a ruthless warlord who shortly dominates the Quantum Realm, together with its many denizens and societies. …

Farrell is restrained and melancholy as Jake, who steadily awakens to the truth that the companion his household took as a right—and upon whom they’d all change into more and more reliant—might have yearned for and even had a full life earlier than being bought to them. The function is …

However evaluate that to 2018’s The Favourite, one other English-language black comedy from a European director (Yorgos Lanthimos) about wealth, affluence and gender/sexual politics (besides it’s set within the British royal palace in 1711 versus a up to date luxurious cruise yacht). That movie earned 9 Oscar noms, together with …

That all changed in OHMSS: for one thing, we meet Contessa Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo right in the opening scene of the movie where Bond does indeed stop her from drowning herself. But their blossoming romance, initially transactional in nature, before becoming real, is one of the two main narratives …

All collect on the nation property of the enigmatic Lionel Twain (performed by legendary writer Truman Capote), who proclaims himself the world’s best detective and challenges the others to resolve a homicide that can happen in his sealed-off, trap-laden puzzle field of a mansion. After all, it’s Twain himself who …