Alison Lesley

Frances McCullen (Chloë Grace Moretz) works as a waitress in Manhattan and lives in a spacious loft apartment with flatmate Erica (Maika Monroe). When Frances finds a bag on the subway, she dutifully returns it to its owner – an elderly foreign widow named Greta Hideg (Isabelle Huppert) who, since her daughter moved away to Paris, has become increasingly lonely and isolated. Thankful for Frances’ ...

“A court ought not be affected by the weather of the day, but will be by the climate of the era.”  And so it was. For those who weren’t already aware of the force-of-nature that is the Notorious RBG after the 2018 documentary that examined her decades of work as well as her rise to pop culture fame, On The Basis Of Sex provides another reason to give the name ‘Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ a Google. On The...

After crashing his plane in the Arctic some months ago, a solitary man (Mads Mikkelsen) survives in a frozen wasteland through meticulous and unending routine, waiting to be found. When his chance at rescue goes awry, he must decide whether to stay put, or risk life and limb against the elements and rocky terrain in the hopes of reaching an outpost before it’s too late. Arctic, a survival drama sh...

Six years after the events of the first film, Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) is now much adored by his fellow video game characters and has settled into a happy routine, hanging out in the power strip after a hard day’s work as the antagonist of the game ‘Fix-It Felix’. Meanwhile, Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), Ralph’s best friend since the events of the last film, confesses her boredo...

Like many adolescents, Kayla (Elsie Fisher) spends her time glued zombie-like to her phone, scrolling infinitely through social media. She makes online videos for an almost non-existent audience of followers on how to improve their social lives, without taking her own advice. She fumbles her way through the middle school social hierarchy, has a goal to finally find a best friend and a crush on the...

Have you ever wondered whether Mary Poppins can do sick BMX tricks? Thank god someone’s finally answered that question, and the answer is yes – of course she can. Mary Poppins is floating back into cinemas after a 54-year absence from our screens. The magical nanny (Emily Blunt) returns to seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, bringing along her unconventional discipline methods and moral lessons. Michael B...

Mortal Engines is set 1000 years in the future, after the Earth’s crust was shattered and much of civilisation lost in an horrific quantum war. To the east, the permanent city of Shan Guo prospers in passivity, and to the west, mechanised cities rumble across the wastelands, with predator cities like London devouring smaller, roving miner cities. Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar), a troubled young woman w...

T’was the night before Christmas … when a zombie apocalypse threatened the sleepy town of Little Haven. Anna (Ella Hunt) and her friends John (Malcolm Cumming), Steph (Sarah Swire), Chris (Christopher Leveaux), and Lisa (Marli Siu), wake to find a zombie virus has infected their town, and most of the world, right before the Christmas holidays! The gang must sing and slash their way to survival, fe...

The second instalment of the Harry Potter spin-off franchise, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, takes magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to London and Paris on orders from Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) to hunt down the obscurial Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller). Newt is joined once again by no-maj baker Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), femme fatale Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol), ...

In the Special Collections room of the Transylvania University Library, guarded by a small amount of plexiglass and an elderly librarian, sits some of the most valuable books and manuscripts in America. American Animals is based on the unbelievably true story that was dubbed the ‘Transy Book Heist’ back in 2004. College freshmen Spencer Reinhard (Barry Keoghan) and Warren Lipka (Evan Peters), diss...

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: a missing child, a teenager suddenly not contactable in our hyper-connected world. When David Kim’s (John Cho) 16-year-old daughter Margot (Michelle La) stops answering her phone, David fears the worst. After reporting his daughter missing, and with the help of Detective Vik (Debra Messing) the investigator assigned to the case, David dives into Margot’s cyber-hist...