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x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObRmLzY3ulA November is here so you know what that means—Christmas is right around the corner, and so are all the new movie trailers. And one romantic comedy destined to warm up your household for the festivities this year is Asa Butterfield‘s Your Christmas or Mine? The Sex Education alum is taking on a new role in this wholesome Christmas tale, in which he plays James Hughes, a young adult who has more responsibilities and baggage than the average twenty-something. In the…

| A Hard Day is a fascinating, curious exercise in Korean webcomics, adapting a 2014 movie about a corrupt cop who messes up, makes a bad decision, then makes even more bad decisions. In many ways, it's a state-of-the-art representation of the Korean webcomics scroll-down format designed for phones. The storytelling becomes more cinematic because it adopts the "montage" form of the panels showing one close-up to another to create more suspense, which makes it perfect for a crime-suspense story. "A Hard Day" webcomic key…

An amusing snapshot of millennial restlessness, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s droll debut is another addition to the recent crop of films where young women are always running on screen, a lot. Lamented by an ex-boyfriend as a “bulldozer”, Anaïs (Anaïs Demoustier) saunters into every human interaction with the force of a whirlwind. Forever pacing back and forth, she goes off on idiosyncratic tangents as if oblivious to the bewildered other party.Such personality quirks in large doses could soon turn tiresome and…