Midnight Special
With Shotgun Stories, Take
Shelter and Mud under his belt,
director Jeff Nichols boasts
quite the CV. As with his previous work, Midnight Special features actor Michael Shannon, but
thematically it’s a departure as
Nichols leaves behind gritty realism for science fiction. Inspired
by ‘80s sci-fi, it features a young
boy with supernatural talents
who finds himself hunted by
shady government forces.
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Our Little Sister
For some reason, Asian filmmakers are better equipped at
dealing with sentimental themes
than their western counterparts.
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda is a master of the sort of
drama that reduces grown men
to emotional wrecks. His latest
follows a group of young women who are forced to raise their
young half-sister following their
father’s death. You’re gonna
need tissues for this one.
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