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On a futuristic world, the population travel by making their own rainbows - but you have to be twelve before you get your own empowering cape and diamond. Ten year old “Arco” is impatient, though, especially when his parents and sister return from an exhilarating trip. One night, when all are asleep he pinches his sister’s kit and sets off for his maiden flight. Of course, he’s hardly adept and so soon plummets through the clouds, and the timeline, and finds himself stuck in a past world with “Iris”. She’s an independent spirit whom he soon learns to trust, and despite the chagrin of the disgr…

With only a few months left of his term in the Quirinale, the widowed President of Italy is contemplating his future whilst having to consider a few difficult decisions that may end up defining not just his presidency but his legacy, too. “De Santis” (Toni Servillo) is tasked with signing into law a contentious bill on euthanasia but will his own conscious allow him! Will his close friendship with the Pope (Rufin Doh Zeyenouin)? He must also consider two pardons before him. Both are legitimate convictions for murder but both could have mitigating circumstances - if he felt convinced enough - b…

“Luis” (Sergi López) and his young son “Esteban” (Bruno Núñez Arjona) have heard that their missing daughter/sister has joined the rave community deep in the Moroccan desert. Their arrival amongst a crowd of people who just want to dance under the stars until the wee small hours leads to little, but they do alight on a group of travellers whom they decide to follow when the police arrive to shut them down. They are soon heading along dirt tracks in a convoy of three vehicles towards the Mauritanian border where the next party is due to happen and where they hope to continue their search. It’s …

Well the producers certainly assembled quite an half decent cast for the English language version of this colourful and vibrant animation, and they even coaxed renowned lyricist Sir Tim Rice back for the first time in a couple of decades to write the title song for Ewan McGregor. With their sea captain father away on a very long voyage, twins “Elise” and “Alfie” are living with their mother and getting fractious. They miss their dad and need something exciting to happen. Then, out of nowhere, there appears a whale-like ship that glides through the clouds to their room and that’s when they meet…

John Dickson is quite an engaging host here, but I was still pretty disappointed with this documentary. It centres around a scrap of papyrus discovered by a couple of British Egyptologists just over a century ago that depicts not only a Greek lyric to a Christian song, but also an early form of musical notation. The task? Well that is to try and recreate the hymn so we can listen to it again after almost two millennia. What we get, though, isn’t quite that. After a fairly perfunctory history lesson via Egypt and the University of Oxford, we are introduced to acclaimed songwriters Chris Tomlin …

I am an AI Researcher so it's interesting to write about something that combines my passion for movies with my daily work. The movie does a great job interviewing very prominent AI figures, ranging from the most pessimistic doomist to the unreasonable naive optimistic ones, in an engaging and clear way to the general public. Their discourse in the movie is very compatible with what they say in academic conferences, so no sneaky editing there, and the movie should be very informative on what some of the people that know the technical details of how AI is trained are thinking. Perh…

Pom Poko is one of the more unique Studio Ghibli films, with a ton of unpredictable WTF moments without straying too far from its mostly family-friendly reputation as an animated film. Seek it out, embrace the ridiculousness, and witness a bunch of raccoons adapt to life’s hardships by folding and stretching their teabags like a master origamist. https://bit.ly/CoonPouch…

**_A minister moves West with his beautiful wife to pastor a church in Montana_** This is a surprisingly good Western based on the storyline of Willie Nelson’s 1975 album. I say “surprisingly” because (1) Nelson is a musician not an actor and (2) I assumed this was a TV production like Nelson’s other Westerns from the 80s, “Stagecoach” and “Once Upon a Texas Train,” not to mention Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler.” Turns out, it had a limited theatrical release and is R-rated. Whatever you do, don’t read the descriptive blurb on IMDb or streaming channels since the ones I’ve read give …

With both leads known for being involved in less than mediocre scifi movies, honestly, I wasn't expected much out of "In The Lost Lands" and thats what i got, not much. Dave Batista isn't winning an oscar anytime soon but at least he is in a decent movie every so often. Milla Jovovich on the other hand has left a long and winding trail of scifi duds behind her since the first resident evil. It's getting to the point if I see her name in the beginning credits, every bit of enthusiam I might have had for the film is flushed down the toilet. I don't know if it's terrible luck or she just accepts …

This film explores the social realities faced by women in Indonesia and critiques the deeply rooted patriarchal culture that still exists in society. Yuni, who aspires to continue her education, is held back by social norms and traditional beliefs that say rejecting two marriage proposals means she will never find a partner. Arawinda Kirana’s performance is absolutely outstanding her gestures and expressions feel so natural that they make the audience truly feel Yuni’s sadness. The color purple, which is closely associated with Yuni, serves as a symbol of freedom, courage, and resistanc…