Rachel and Henry are best friends. Henry’s family owns a secondhand bookshop, Howling Books, where they spend a lot of their time together. Once they reach early high school, though, Rachel realizes she has feelings stronger than just friendship for Henry. So, the day before her family moves away from their small Australian city to a coastal town, she leaves Henry a love letter in his favorite book, hoping he returns those romantic feelings. He never mentions the letter to her. So, she moves on with her life. She gets
John Butler’s coming-of-age tale, Handsome Devil, is a meaningful lesson about living an authentic life and finding your voice. Set at an Irish boarding school where rugby is treated like a religion, Handsome Devil tells the feel-good story of an unlikely friendship that forms between two outsiders that find solace in one another. As the film opens, we’re introduced to Ned (Fionn O’Shea), an artistic outcast, who is the subject of ridicule for his lack of enthusiasm towards the only thing that matters at the sport-obsessed institution. It’s an unbearable situation that
It hasn’t taken U.K. newcomer Nicholas Galitzine long to establish himself as a rising talent on the international stage. In 2014, he made his film debut in John Williams’ The Beat Beneath My Feet, opposite Luke Perry. And in 2015, he was recognized as one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow. But Nicholas is set to make his breakout performance as Conor, a closeted jock struggling to be true to himself, in John Butler’s coming-of-age film, Handsome Devil. We chatted with Nicholas about the role, his favorite relationship to explore,
Striking a perfect balance between entertainment and philosophical ideas, Wonder Woman is the best DC Comics film adaptation of late. The story of Wonder Woman begins in the present-day. Diana Price (Gal Gadot) works at the Louvre in Paris. She receives a delivery from Wayne Enterprises, and when she opens it she finds a copy of a photograph from the 1940s. It’s a photograph of her (as Wonder Woman) and a motley crew of four associates. Of course, Wonder Woman flashes back to the story leading up to—and behind—that picture.