PREVIEW: THE LIGHTHOUSE (15)
and, as Lloyd spends more time with his subject, the writer is compelled to address deep cracks in the relationship with his father (Chris Cooper).
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood is an impeccably acted testament to the enduring power of the human spirit, which embraces us like a warm hug.
Heller’s faith in her actors is richly rewarded as she meticulously recreates TV studio sets that became a place of comfort to generations of American children.
By the time Fred launches into his closing theme song, It’s Such A Good Feeling, we’re in rhapsodic agreement.
TWO salty sea dogs come to murderous blows in 1890s New England in director Robert Eggers’ black and white horror.
The film opens with the arrival of Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) on an isolated island. He will serve the next four weeks as lighthouse keeper alongside cantankerous old coot Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe).
Wake delegates the most physical and arduous tasks to Ephraim and as tensions rise, Ephraim experiences hypnotic visions of a mermaid (Valeriia Karaman) and a menacing one-eyed seagull.
It is bad luck to kill a seabird so, when the gull perishes, an ill wind blows across the island, trapping the men with dwindling rations.
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BARBED satire from British director Chirs Morris. Miami-based preacher Moses Al Shabaz (Marchant Davis) presides over the ramshackle Star Of Six community farm and mission. This movement hopes to effect lasting change for poor people in the community “without the gun weapon”.
Undercover FBI operative Reza (Kayvan Novak) brokers the sale of AK47 rifles to Moses, who intends to paint the weapons white and use them as fence posts. The deal brings the Star Of Six to the attention of Agent Kendra Glack (Anna Kendrick) at the FBI’s anti-terrorism unit. A sting operation is soon sanctioned involving fake nuclear warheads which aims to prove the mission’s dark intentions. ■ Download/stream from February 3.