Month: January 2025

  Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa is an insightful and powerful drama about modern queerness, family, and parenting. Olivia Colman stars as Hannah, a filmmaker working on her next film project, which centers around her relationship with her father, which she thinks is drama-free. She makes a trip to Amsterdam with her husband (Daniel Henshaw) and non-binary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to visit her gay father (John Lithgow), or Jimpa as Frances calls him. When Frances tells…

  Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover is an uproarious horror comedy. The film follows a grave digger (Glowicki) who is desperate to find a lover but can’t because of her unpleasant smell. Following a funeral, she meets the man of her dreams, who loves how she looks and smells, only for him to perish in a tragic accident. In a state of desperation and sadness, she goes to extreme lengths to try to bring him back….

  Bubble & Squeak follows Declan (Himesh Patel) and Delores (Sarah Goldberg), a recently married couple who are on their honeymoon in a country that has banned cabbage. They are stopped by customs, where a customs agent (Steven Yeun) informs them that they received word that an American couple is trying to smuggle cabbage into their country. Declan has no idea what the customs agent is talking about, and Delores’ pants are full of heads…

  Mstyslav Chrenov’s 2000 Meters to Andriivka, the follow-up to his 2022 Oscar-winning 20 Days in Mariopul, is another harrowing look at the war in Ukraine. Chrenov puts us on the frontlines of a brigade of Ukrainian soldiers trying to cross a 2000-meter forest to claim a Russian-occupied village. The opening fifteen minutes of 2000 Meters to Andriivka is like the opening Normandy scene from Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan except real. Chrenov straps cameras…

  The Ugly Stepsister takes place in the 19th century and follows Elvira (Lea Myren), whose mother (Ane Dahl Torp) marries the father of the beautiful Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss ). Following the death of her stepfather, Elvira’s mother finds out that her family, despite looking wealthy, has no money. The only option the family has is to marry into wealth, but with Agnes being so beautiful, Elvira is forced to take extreme measures…

  We’ve all had a bad day. A day where nothing seems to go right and as the day goes on, things just get worse and worse. One of the Them Days, the directorial debut of Lawrence Lamont, is a sweet and funny movie about just that. Dreux (Keke Palmer) is a promising employee at a local diner in Los Angeles. She’s Employee of the Month, she knows how to fix everything in the place,…