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After Looper was released in 2012, filmmaker Rian Johnson planned to make a murder mystery film. Unfortunately, a small feature film called The Last Jedi prevented him from realising this project - until now. Starring an ensemble cast,…

Adapted from Alan Warner's 1998 novel The Sopranos and the play Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Our Ladies follows a group of Scottish Catholic schoolgirls on a choir trip to Edinburgh. With thoughts of boys and booze during their first…

Marriage Story is the latest film by Frances Ha director Noah Baumbach and is his arguably most accessible feature to date. The film stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a couple going through a divorce between New York and Los…

Following his 2016 black comedy Down Under, Australian director Abe Forsythe returns with zombie comedy film Little Monsters. The film follows loser-in-life Dave (Alexander England), who becomes smitten with his nephew's kindergarten…

Marking the second collaboration between Dreamworks and Pearl Studio, Abominable follows a teenage girl called Yi (Chloe Bennett), who discovers a young Yeti on top of her Shanghai home. Naming him Everest, she takes it upon herself to…

Marking the third film by Trey Edward Shults, Waves follows a suburban Florida family - led by domineering father Ronald (Sterling K. Brown) - as they struggle after a tragic loss. Waves is effectively a film with two halves. The first…

Based on the book of the same name, Just Mercy is the latest film by The Glass Castle director Destin Daniel Cretton. It tells the story of African-American Walter McMillan (Jamie Foxx), who was sentenced to death row in the late 1980s.…

In 2011, filmmakers Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz visited a camp for disabled actors in California. Here, they met Zack Gottsagen, a young man with Down's Syndrome who wanted to become a wrestler. It was this dream that inspired Nilson…

After directing the 2017 satirical black-comedy The Death of Stalin, director Armando Iannucci brings a modern take on a classic Charles Dickens novel. Starring an ensemble British cast, A Personal History of David Copperfield follows the…

Marking the feature film directorial debut of American filmmaker Sasie Sealy, Lucky Grandma follows Grandma Wong (Tsai Chin), a widow living in New York. After an unlucky night at the casino, she finds herself with a large bag of cash. She…