Streaming Pick: JULES (2023) – funny, quirky and delightfully out of this world

There is something so modest and unassuming about this story that highlights ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. Even more so when the 'extra' involves an extra-terrestrial. Ben Kingsley plays exactly his age as Milton, a 78-year-old mild-mannered widower living alone in a big house in a fictitious small Pennsylvania town called Boonton. The movie …

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Trailer Spotlight: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s BIG BUG (2022)

It's already mid January and I haven't done a trailer spotlight yet. Well, I just saw this on Flipboard this morning and I just had to blog about it. It's from Jean-Pierre Jeunet who made Amélie (2001), and I haven't seen anything he's done since then. I never saw A Very Long Engagement and he's …

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