Actor Tye Sheridan (1996)

The Tender Bar (2021), directed by George Clooney and written by William Monahan, is an American coming-of-age film. In 1973, nine-year-old JR Maguire returns to his grandparents’ home on Long Island with his mother Dorothy after being abandoned by his father Johnny, who was a radio personality known as “the Voice”. Growing up in a working class family, JR finds a father figure in his uncle Charlie, the owner of a local bar called “The Dickens”. While listening to the Voice on the radio and eagerly awaiting Johnny’s promised visits and ...

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), an American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters, serves as both a sequel to 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse and the twelfth installment of the overall series. However, it also marks the final chapter in the prequel films. The story begins in 1975 when eight-year-old Jean Grey loses her parents in a fatal car accident, an event that triggers her telekinetic powers for the first time. She is then taken under Professor Charles Xavier’s wing at his School for Gifted Youngsters with the promise of learning how to control her mutant abilities. Jumping ahead to 1992, we find the X-Men called upon by the president to ...

Based on the novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One (2018) is a sci-fi film set in a future where people use the OASIS, a virtual reality universe created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Games, to escape their bleak reality. When Halliday passes away, his avatar Anorak leaves a message announcing a contest: whoever finds the golden Easter egg hidden behind a locked gate within the OASIS will gain ownership of the entire game. This attracts many players known as ‘Gunters’ as well as Nolan Sorrento, CEO of Innovative Online Industries (IOI), who wants to take control of the OASIS for himself ...

The American superhero film, X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), was directed and produced by Bryan Singer and written by Simon Kinberg, with a story also contributed by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris. In 3600 BCE, the powerful mutant En Sabah Nur ruled ancient Egypt before being buried alive. Centuries later, he is resurrected in 1983 with a belief that humanity has lost its way. To achieve his goal of destroying and rebuilding the world, he enlists four followers, including Ororo ...

Dark Places (2015) is an American mystery film written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on Gillian Flynn’s 2009 novel of the same name. It tells the story of 8-year old Libby Day, who was the lone survivor of her family’s brutal murder in rural Kinnakee, Kansas in 1985. When questioned by the police, Libby blames her teenage brother, Ben, for the crime. Now an adult struggling financially due to a decrease in donations from strangers who once sympathized with ‘the little girl on the news’, Libby is approached by Lyle Wirth to speak at ...

The American epic experimental coming-of-age drama film, The Tree of Life (2011), written and directed by Terrence Malick, follows the O’Brien family during two pivotal periods. In the 1960s, the family is thrown into turmoil upon learning of the death of their 19-year-old son, R.L. In contrast, in 2010, eldest son Jack struggles with his life as an architect in Dallas, Texas, feeling disillusioned and disappointed. Throughout the film, Mrs. O’Brien asks God why R.L. had to die while visuals show the creation of the universe and Earth’s beginnings. At one point, a compassionate dinosaur chooses not to ...