Directed by Glen Keane and John Kahrs Starring Cathy Ang, Robert G Chiu, Phillipa Soo (Hamilton), Ken Jeong (The Hangover), John Cho (Star Trek Beyond), Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho (Bright) and Sandra Oh (Sideways)
Fei Fei (Ang) is a young girl, growing up with her father (Cho) and mother (Miles). Her father is a scientist, her mother a romantic who tells her stories of the Chinese gods. When her mother becomes sick and passes away, a distraught Fei Fei finds solace in the myth of Chang’e, the moon goddess, who was parted from her beloved when she became immortal and waits eternally for him to return to her.
Directed by Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know) Starring Evan Rachel Wood (Frozen II), Debra Winger (Black Widow), Gina Rodriguez (Annihilation) and Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)
Robert (Jenkins) and Theresa (Winger) Dyne, and their daughter Old Dolio (Wood), are small-time grifters in Los Angeles, snatching small scores from the post office and running petty insurance scams. During an attempt to score the back rent on their ‘apartment’ – a dilapidated office, routinely flooded by a soap factory’s runoff – by claiming lost luggage insurance, Robert and Theresa befriend Melanie (Rodriguez), the daughter of wealthy parents who is drawn to their off-beat lifestyle, while the Dynes see her as a mark.
“These strange creatures still exist in Japan, supposedly.”
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Howl’s Moving Castle) Starring (English dub) Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds), Elle Fanning (Maleficent), Tim Daly (Superman: Brainiac Attacks), Lea Salonga (Mulan), Frank Welker (Transformers: The Last Knight), Paul Butcher (The Santa Trap) and Pat Carroll (With Six You Get Eggroll)
Professor Tatsuo Kusakabe (Daly) moves to the country with his daughters, Satsuki (Dakota Fanning) and Mei (Elle Fanning), in order to prepare for the return of his wife, Yasuko (Salonga), from hospital. Their new house is occupied by numerous soot gremlins, and Mei follows a rabbit-like creature to a hole in a giant camphor tree where she meets a huge spirit named Totoro (Welker).
A CIA agent (Washington, the character is never named, only refered to periodically as ‘the Protagonist’) extracts an undercover operative carrying a mysterious package – supposedly plutonium – during a terrorist attack on an opera house in Kiev. His life is saved by a mysterious man who seemingly sucks a bullet out of the stands through one of the terrorists, but is captured and uses a suicide pill. He recovers and is told the the pill was a test, and now he is part of a task force combating a world-ending threat, his only lead the word Tenet.
Directed by Kim Hagen Jensen and Tonni Zinck Starring Robyn Dempsey (I.T.), Emma Jenkins and Luke Griffin (Noble)
Minna (Dempsey) is a quirky hipster-child who lives with her dad and her hampster in the countryside, but her world is turned upside down by the arrival of her father’s girlfriend Helene, and Helene’s spoiled instagram kid daughter, Jenny (Jenkins). As her waking life becomes more stressful, she discovers the ability to leave her dreams for a steampunk staging area where dreams are created, and ignoring the warnings of her dream director, Gaff (Griffin), she begins visiting Jenny’s dream stage to try to manipulate Jenny’s waking personality.
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