Ewan and Connor review Daughters, a documentary about four young girls who prepare for a special Daddy-Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.
Look Back - Review
Ewan and Connor review Look Back from Kiyotaka Oshiyama based on Tatsuki Fujimoto's (Chainsaw Man) web manga.
Look Back on Letterboxd
Does MOANA (2016) Hold Up? - Review
Ewan and Connor revisit the splash hit MOANA (2016) which is getting a live-action adaptation and a sequel that's out in theaters now. Does it hold up? Is Dwayne Johnson any good at singing? What's the best song in the movie?
Moana on Letterboxd
MARIA is Angelina Jolie's Best Performance - Review
Ewan and Kevin review the third entry in Pablo Larraín's 'Woman' trilogy with Maria starring Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Kodi Smit-McPhee & Valeria Golino.
1977: Maria Callas, once the world's greatest opera diva, lives in seclusion in Paris with her staff and her two poodles. Her health is getting worse and worse. Then she receives a request to go on tour again. Will La Callas sing again? And if so, for whom?
Most Underrated Movie of the Year! THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT - Review
Ewan and Kevin review the sci-fi time travel movie Things Will Be Different from editor-turned-director Michael Felker who worked with Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson on their films Synchronic, The Endless & Something in the Dirt. Things Will Be Different on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/KANO
Juror #2 - Review
Ewan and Kevin review Clint Eastwood's potential final film, Juror #2, which stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, and more.
While serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.
Gladiator II - Review
Ewan and Kevin review Ridley Scott's Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and more.
Woman of the Hour - Review
EEwan and Lachlan review Anna Kendrick's directorial debut Woman of the Hour about the serial killer who appeared on live TV as a bachelor in The Dating Game.
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Songs of Slow Burnings Earth - Review
Ewan and Kevin review Songs of Slow Burning Earth.
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Reflective observations of Ukraine in wartime are interwoven with eye-witness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalization of war.
The Quiet Son (Jouer Avec Le Feu) is Heartbreaking - Review
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Ewan & Kevin review Jouer Aves Le Feu (The Quiet Son) by Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin starring Vincent Lindon, Stefan Crepon, Benjamin Voisin.
Pierre, a devoted father in his 50s, raises his two sons alone. When Louis, the youngest, leaves home to attend the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, slightly older and not as successful academically, becomes more and more secretive. Driven by a fascination for violence, he gets entangled in far-right extremist groups, the very opposite of his father’s values. Between them, there is love and hate, until tragedy happens.
El Jockey (Kill The Jockey) is Argentina's Oscar Submission - Review
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Ewan and Kevin review Kill the Jockey by Luis Ortega starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girolamo & Daniel Fanego
The Time It Takes is the Best Italian Film of the Year - Review
Ewan and Kevin review Il tempo che ci vuole (The Time It Takes) from Francesca Comencini.
A father and a daughter. Cinema and life. The childhood that seems perfect and then becomes great by getting everything wrong. Fall and get up, start again, grow old, become fragile, let go but never get lost. The time it takes to save yourself.
Mistress Dispeller - Review
THE ORDER Paints a Haunting Portrait of the USA - Review
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Ewan and Kevin review Justin Kurzel's The Order starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Marc Maron, Alison Oliver, & Odessa Young.
As baffled law enforcement scrambles for answers about a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists through the Pacific Northwest in 1983, a lone FBI agent stationed in the sleepy, picturesque Idaho town of Coeur d’Alene comes to believe the crimes are not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals, but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists inspired by a radical, charismatic leader plotting a devastating war against the United States government.
Battleground - Review
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Ewan and Kevin review Battleground (Campo di battaglia) by Gianni Amelio starring Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi & Federica Rosellini. Based on the novel by Carlo Patriarca.
APRIL Will Test Your Patience - Review
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Ewan & Lachlan review April by Dea Kulumbegashvili starring Ia Sukhitashvili.
Nina works in the only small hospital of a provincial town as an OB-GYN. Single and in abstinence from personal relationships, she is unconditionally devoted to her Hippocratic oath. When a newborn dies within seconds of being delivered under her supervision, she is accused of wrongdoing. Under investigation, every detail of Nina's personal and professional life is being scrutinized. Despite the risks, Nina remains devoted to her duty as a doctor, committed to doing what nobody else will.
Vermiglio is Italy's Oscar Submission - Review
Ewan and Kevin review Vermiglio, Italy's Oscar Submission & Grand Jury Prize Winner at the Venice Film Festival. Directed by Maura Delpero and starring Tommaso Ragno, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Giuseppe De Domenico, Carlotta Gamba & Sara Serraiocco.
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1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
Iddu (Sicilian Letters) is All Over the Place - Review
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Ewan & Kevin review Iddu - Sicilian Letters by Antonio Piazza & Fabio Grassadonia starring Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobuľová, Tommaso Ragno, & Giuseppe Tantillo.
Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal connection as the Boss' godfather, his task is to get him to reveal his hiding place in their secret letters.
September 5 is Incredibly Tense - Review
Ewan and Kevin review September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum starring Leonie Benesch, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin & Peter Sarsgaard.
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During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) is Brazil's Oscar Submission - Review
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Ewan and Kevin review Walter Salles' Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here) starring Fernanda Torres.
In 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the military dictatorship, former deputy Rubens Paiva was taken from his home by soldiers to be interrogated. He was never found again. The search for truth lasts 30 long years. And when the answers finally begin to appear, Eunice Paiva feels the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.