A prize-winner at this year's Cannes and Sundance festivals, Shaunak Sen's poetic eco-documentary, All That Breathes, focusses on two brothers, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammed Saud, who live and work in New Delhi. The smog in the city is so bad that dozens of kites (the birds of prey, not the toys) fall from the sky every day, but the brothers rescue as many of the birds as they can, nursing them back to health in their cramped, over-heated basement. "Shaunak weaves the many threads together with meditative rhythms, restraint and deep compassion," says Anupama Chopra at Film Companion. "At the end of the film… I cried for the incredible grace of these brothers and for the myopic cruelty of the world they live in. And for ourselves, because each one of us has contributed to making it."To get more news about free porn, you can visit our official website.
The star of Mansfield Park and The Importance of Being Earnest, Frances O'Connor would have been a shoo-in to play Emily Brontë if someone had made a biopic of the author 20 years ago. Instead, O'Connor has written and directed a Brontë biopic herself, and cast Emma Mackey (Sex Education) in the lead role. How did the shiest and most repressed of the three sisters come to write the passionate Wuthering Heights? O'Connor's acclaimed directorial debut suggests that Emily's hedonistic brother Bramwell (Fionn Whitehead) and a handsome local priest (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) might have had something to do with it. "Shot with breath-taking beauty and acted with extraordinary emotion and grace," says Christopher Schobert at The Film Stage, "this exploration of the life and development of Emily Brontë is tremendously enveloping… O'Connor, who also scripted, adroitly manages the feat of making a 19th-Century period piece burst with contemporary feeling."
This spooky animated adventure is directed by Henry Selick, the maker of Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas, and co-written by Jordan Peele, the maker of Get Out and Nope – the perfect candidates, in other words, to cook up a funny-but-scary treat this Hallowe'en. Peele also reunites with his television comedy partner, Keegan-Michael Key, to provide the voices of the title characters, a scheming pair of demon brothers who are summoned to the Land of the Living by a tough, green-haired 13-year-old orphan, Kat Elliott (Lyric Ross). "Selick's handcrafted stop-motion has long been gorgeous in its strangeness and scares," says Kristy Puchko at Mashable. "Here, he continues to push the envelope on the medium, on what topics can be explored in a kid's movie, and what he can do to dazzle us... Wendell & Wild offers chills, laughs, lessons, and a dark but radiant heart."
There have been countless films about DC Comics' superheroes, and one film about a DC supervillain – Joker. Black Adam is somewhere in between. He was introduced as a villain in 1941, but has since evolved into an anti-hero, a vengeful former slave who gets his powers from the same wizard as Shazam, and can't decide whether to use those powers for good or evil. Dwayne Johnson has the appropriate physique to play a comic-book titan, and former 007 Pierce Brosnan has the presence to play his mentor, Doctor Fate. "We have an opportunity here to disrupt and change the paradigm," Johnson told Rosie Knight at Den of Geek. "This world of superheroes has been around a long time and is responsible for a lot of massive business in our industry… But now you have this guy who… is the Dirty Harry of superheroes."
Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won a stack of Oscars and Baftas, but his most entertaining film remains his foul-mouthed gangster caper, In Bruges. Fourteen years on, McDonagh reunites with the stars of that film, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, for a black comedy set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland. Farrell and Gleeson's characters have been close drinking buddies for decades, but when one of them announces that he is sick and tired of their friendship, things take a turn for the bloody. "The Banshees of Inisherin is lovely and disturbing in equal measure," says Steve Pond at The Wrap, "turning its darkest urges and blackest humours into a touching and evocative portrait of a time, a place, a community and a pair of crazy men."
Harry Styles has been in two high-profile films this year. The first of these, Don't Worry Darling, might not have convinced everyone that he was a serious actor rather than a handsome pop-star-turned-movie-star, but this sensitive romantic drama might help his case. Directed by Michael Grandage and based on a novel by Bethan Roberts, My Policeman features Styles as a policeman in 1950s Brighton who is in a relationship with a male museum curator (David Dawson), but who marries a female teacher (Emma Corrin) for appearances' sake. In the 1990s, the three meet again, with Linus Roach, Gina McKee and Rupert Everett playing their older selves. But is there still time for them to right the wrongs of the past? Styles "wonderfully inhabits a working-class man fearful of public scrutiny but unable to hide his true self," says Gregory Ellwood at The Playlist. "Dawson is heartbreaking… and Corrin is simply fantastic as a young woman whose emotions get the best of her when it matters most."
Good news for fans of Vertigo, Basic Instinct and other noirish thrillers in which lovestruck detectives are bamboozled by beautiful mystery women: Park Chan-wook has made his own exemplary addition to the genre. And while Decision to Leave is a lot less lurid than some or Park's previous masterpieces, such as Oldboy and The Handmaiden, there is no mistaking the Korean director's polished style and mind-bendingly complicated plotting. Park Hae-il stars as a married