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Maybe he was kidding, but director Clio Barnard recently described "Ali & Ava" as his chance to make a "social realist musical." The phrase, which escaped me during a BFI London Film Festival interview, struck me as something of an oxymoron at first: How is it that a harsh, realistic portrayal of a struggling working-class English couple coexists with the most surreal of film genres? But in light of the end result, Barnard's ambition makes perfect sense. The film's two main characters don't burst into song out of nowhere, but instead listen to music as an escape from their everyday stresses. It is the force that unites them. Equal parts weariness and good cheer for British Pakistani actor Adeel Akhtar ("Four Lions"), Ali is a Yorkshire-based ex-radio DJ who gravitates toward dance and electronic music. An Irish transplant to the region, Ava (Claire Rushbrook) is more of an old-school folk and country fanatic. The two characters are separate...

Disney confirmed an official release date for Hocus Pocus 2, which comes nearly 30 years after the original movie and sees the Sanderson Sisters return to wreak havoc in Salem, Massachusetts. The original film is a much-loved cult classic, and while many legacy sequels tend to seem shameless cashing in on nostalgia, it's hard not to get excited about the return to Salem. We can't wait to see what the return of the Sanderson sisters has in store, so here's everything you need to know about Hocus Pocus 2. Stars: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy The Sanderson sisters are back in the first Hocus Pocus 2 trailer, and they're just as kid-hungry as ever. The sequel to the classic Halloween movie reunites Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson, respectively, and takes place 29 years after the original. The teaser begins with a scene of three high school students played by Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo, and Li...

Rising actors Reign Edwards and Charlie Gillespie star in Love You Anyway, a drama from Wayfarer Studios and first-time director Anna Matz. The project is part of the Six Feet Apart experiment created by Wayfarer's Justin Baldoni, the filmmaker behind the Disney+ drama Clouds. The initiative challenged the storytellers to look beyond the social isolation of COVID-19 and use the current circumstances to drive the film project forward. In Love You Anyway, the evolving formats of home video chronicle the life of a young woman, Mackenzie (Edwards), from birth to adulthood as she experiences the ups and downs of life alongside her childhood best friend, Lucas (Gillespie). ). As Mackenzie's struggle with depression worsens over the years, she is forced to find the will to fight alongside the people who love her most. According to Wayfarer, the film hopes to show how mental health issues develop and evolve, and ultimately how they are treated and conquered through love and support. Ma...

 Fifty and fabulous is not how Gina feels. She is numb to a life she didn't imagine. Her work, her marriage, hers doesn't excite her. She is in a rut. When her ocean-loving friends arrange a visit to her home from a stripper as a surprise birthday, Gina didn't know she would be a spark that would ignite and take her on a journey unknown, learning as she went, along the way to get it. mojo back! British actress Sally Phillips stars in this Australian film set in Western Australia. Ella's goal is to please in her role as Gina, the good housewife to her husband Adrian, played by Cameron Daddo and the hard worker at the settlement company where she works, but she is invisible to both of them. The only pleasure in her life is swimming in the ocean in the morning with her group of friends. To cheer her up, they throw a birthday surprise and arrange for a stripper to show up at her door. However, things continue to unravel when Gina is fired from her job and is faced with the ...

“Alone Together,” though set in 2020 amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, infuses the genre with the comfort of a matching cashmere bralette and cardigan sweater from the late 2010s, according to the writer, director, producer and trending star Katie Holmes. made famous then. It's easy to get lost in the nostalgic bits of "Alone Together," like Anthropologie's quaint home furnishings and the chic closets of a "woman on the move in the Big Apple." It's even easier to get lost in the simple but charming jokes of Jim Sturgess and Holmes. But don't get too dreamy for the rom-coms of the past: The film, which premiered at Tribeca 2022, has a jarring reminder that the world is a harrowing place, full of death, betrayal, and traumatic loss. So goes our cute and quirky escape. “Alone Together” centers on June (Holmes), a restaurant critic who is suddenly out of a job and on a break in her relationship with her boyfriend John (Derek Luke, with whom Holmes...

Where the Crawdad's Sing, an adaptation of Delia Owen's novel starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, is hitting theaters this summer and is already one of the most anticipated movies of 2022. A New York Times bestseller and Amazon's best-selling fiction book for all of 2019, Where the Crawdads Sing(opens in new tab), has been adapted by Reece Witherspoon's producer Hello Sunshine after she read it as part of her Instagram book club(opens in new tab) in September 2018. The actor said making the film was "one of those really exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunities" after falling in love with the story that follows Kya Clark, a sensitive and intelligent young woman who has survived on her own for years. in the marshes of Barkley Cove, North Carolina. The story takes a dark turn when a man Kya was involved with is found dead and she becomes the prime suspect. However, Reece is no stranger to exciting crime dramas after making shows and movies like Big Little Lies, Little F...

Headstrong teenager Julija lives on an island off the Croatian coast with her father, Ante, and dutiful mother. However, she sees the arrival of Javier, a millionaire friend of her parents, as an opportunity to make a bet for freedom. Coming-of-age movies set in an idyllic location during a vacation almost always have a doom feel. Even a comedy can be portrayed with a touch of sadness, and things may not always work out in the end. Murina doesn't play much with that formula, but it has enough to work as an effective drama. At least in its opening parts, the film feels formulaic due to lead Julija's performance. She is a precarious teenager, who is shaken by the arrival of Javier, an authoritarian and stubborn friend of her father. She often fantasizes about replacing her father with this man, even trying to set him up with her long-suffering mother, thinking it's the right thing to do with disastrous results. In her mind, Javier is everything that her father is not. Sensiti...