Callum Turner – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

ONE NIGHT ONLY – Review by T.J. Callahan

August 6, 2026 T. J. Callahan Callum Turner, Monica Barbaro, One Night Only, romantic comedy, Travis Braun, will gluck

One Night Only is to sex as The Purge is to murder. A fictionalized present day New York City is in the throes of passion. It’s been 3 years since the government passed a chastity mandate on the American people, banning pre-marital sex, with the exception of one night a year. Tonight is the night. Academy Award nominee Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner star as Allie and Owen, two sex-starved strangers who keep running into each other on their quest for a meaningful hook up on the most unromantic and chaotic night of the year. After a series of embarrassingly comical missteps, they decide maybe they are worth waiting for.

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ATROPIA – Review by Nadine Whitney

December 8, 2025December 14, 2025 Nadine Whitney alia shawkat, Atropia, Callum Turner, Channing Tatum, Chloë Sevingy, Hailey Gates, Jane Lee, Military Industrial Complex, Priscilla Garita, Tim Heidecker, Zahra Alzubaidi

Actor and journalist Hailey Gates initially set out to make a documentary about Californian desert military bases that were set up as enemy towns so soldiers could train with role-players acting as potential insurgents. The towns are real fakes, they exist, but the U.S. Military weren’t keen on Gates potentially revealing sensitive information. Thus, the scattershot fictional satire Atropia came into being. In her debut feature Gates manages to hit some targets with comedic, and at times, sincere barbs. However, when it comes to the film as a whole the comedy and satire goes through the attrition of repetitiveness and the sincere concerns about the ludicrous nature of putting army cadets through such a misguided and useless exercise gets lost in the mix.

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ETERNITY – Review by T.J. Callahan

November 18, 2025 T. J. Callahan a24, Callum Turner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, elizabeth olsen, Eternity, John Early, Miles Teller

Movie goers have been waiting forever for a fresh, new romantic comedy and finally Eternity happened. It’s a love triangle of heavenly proportions. The original script, taken from the Blacklist of best unproduced screenplays, is sweet, sentimental and silly. It examines the different types and stages of endearment. Passionate love, comfortable love, progressive love. It’s nostalgic. Eternity is the whole package.

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ATROPIA (Sundance FF 2025) – Review by Leslie Combemale

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 Leslie Combemale (Sundance FF 2025), alia shawkat, Atropia, Callum Turner, chloe sevigny, Grand Jury Prize, Hailey Gates, Jane Levy

Atropia is not without its positive aspects. It starts with a bang, showing a strong point of view with its satirical take of both the military and actors trying to make it in Hollywood. Borrowing elements from M*A*S*H, Stripes, and a few more obscure indie war films, the story is of a fictional military training facility in the deserts of California nicknamed “The Box”. Soldiers sent there spend an immersive 24/7 in a created Iraqi village trying to ferret out dangerous bad actors, before they’re killed by various bombs, insurgents with machine guns, or other potential war drama. Local actors live there, with limited water and other essentials, rotating roles as hostiles and friendlies, depending on the day. Wanna-be “real” actor Fayuz (Alia Shawkat) goes back and forth between helping other townspeople method acting, and things like vying for attention from imbedded Hollywood A-listers who might take her out of this dead-end job.

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MASTERS OF THE AIR – Review by Susan Granger

March 27, 2024March 31, 2024 Susan Granger Anthony Boyle, apple tv series, Army Air Corps, Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Callum Turner, Masters of the Air, Steven Spielberg, tom hanks

From Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the same production team that gave us Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010), comes a new, nine-part series Masters of the Air about the heroic W.W.II pilots who set the stage for D-Day. The 8th Air Force, 100th Bomber Group – known as the “Bloody Hundredth” because of their high casualty rate – was stationed at England’s Thorpe Abbotts Base. In less than six months in 1943, 34 out of 36 crews were shot down. Their high casualty count was attributed to their orders to fly daylight missions over Nazi-occupied territory, while the British stealthily dropped their bombs at night.

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THE BOYS IN THE BOAT – Review by Susan Granger

February 7, 2024 Susan Granger amazon prime, Callum Turner, george clooney, Ian McElhinney, joel edgerton, The Boys in the Boat

George Clooney helms The Boys in the Boat as a classic underdog sports saga set during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Based on Daniel James Brown’s 2013 non-fiction best-seller, it begins with elderly Joe Rantz watching a young boy rowing a boat in a lake – which reminds him of the challenges of his youth at the University of Washington. Unlike many of his classmates, young Joe didn’t have parents who could pay his tuition. He lives in a dilapidated car and often goes hungry. He’s had to work for every penny – with jobs few and far between. Then he hears about tryouts for the junior varsity rowing team. If he qualifies, he’ll get three meals a day, lodging and enough of a stipend to pay his tuition bills.

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THE BOYS IN THE BOAT – Review by Diane Carson

December 26, 2023December 26, 2023 Diane Carson 1936 Nazi Olympics, Callum Turner, george clooney, joel edgerton, Luke Slattery, rowing crew, The Boys in the Boat

The well-known, true, inspirational story recounts the triumph of eight young men and their coxswain rowing for the University of Washington in the 1930s Depression Era. Each man had a hard luck story, and all had to endure demanding workouts to earn their desperately needed places in the boat. In seamless unity, they then had to defeat the senior rowers, wealthy, experienced university teams, and, eventually, the best in the world at the 1936 Nazi Olympics.