Ella Smith

A beautifully filmed memoir based on a creative artist’s childhood growing up with a dysfunctional family in the Birmingham projects in the 1980s.

From Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and starring Brit Marling, a fish out of water story about the real relationship between media and government.

Jerry Hickfang (Ryan Reynolds) works at a bathtub factory and attempts to walk the straight-and-narrow, in spite of his talking pet dog and cat trying to influence him. When he accidentally kills an attractive woman from accounting (Gemma Arterton), he hastily tries to cover his tracks.

An oddball mix of interrelated shorts, or just an average day in the city of angels? Director, co-writer, and star Al Warren is a filmmaker on the edge in this metatextual comedy, which conveys a sincere wonder at the chaos of both life and cinema with its sunny cinematography and colorful cast.