Halloween is here! And your happy home could now be your tomb, so to celebrate we break down our top 5 movies based in ‘haunted’ buildings where malevolent forces terrorise the people living in them.   #5: ‘The Amityville Horror’ (1979) Image Source: MGM Everything seems great for the Lutz family when they move into […]

Review 134min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama, Music Director:  Bryan Singer Cast:       Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee…and more Writers:   Anthony McCarten and Peter Morgan -Synopsis- In rockin’ early 70s London, a prodigiously talented young immigrant and aspiring musician teams up with two of his fellow musicians/students and an unassuming bassist to form a wholly unique band, […]

Review 141min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Damien Chazelle Cast:       Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke…and more Writers:   Josh Singer and James R. Hansen -Synopsis- In the middle of the cold war and at the height of the space race, an unassuming pilot and NASA astronaut from Ohio is chosen to command what would become the […]

Review 152min Genre:     Drama, Horror, Mystery Director:  Luca Guadagnino Cast:       Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth…and more Writers:   David Kajganich, Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi -Synopsis- An ambitious young American dance student joins a prestigious academy in a divided 70s Berlin, only to discover that the school and its staff hide a sinister secret, placing […]

As we head towards year’s end into the meatier season for film releases, and the frenzy of awards season which follows, October as always  signalled the return of the world’s most accessible major film festival (and one of the year’s final global film events), as filmmakers and media from across the globe gathered in the […]

Review 101min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:  Benedikt Erlingsson Cast:       Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo… Writers:   Benedikt Erlingsson and Ólafur Egilsson -Synopsis- Middle-aged Icelander ‘Halla’ leads a double life, known to most as an upstanding left-leaning Reykjavik choir director, but moonlighting as a militant environmental activist in rural Iceland, wreaking havoc on the country’s […]

Review 120min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:    Felix Van Groeningen Cast:         Timothée Chalamet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney…and more Writers:     Felix Van Groeningen, Luke Davies, David Sheff… and more -Synopsis- As his son sinks deeper into addiction and emotional limbo while becoming a ghost to his California family, a father struggles to understand who his baby boy […]

Review 101min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Romance Director:    Ali Abbasi Cast:         Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson…and more Writers:     Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide Lindqvist -Synopsis- ‘Tina’ is a perennial outsider, a loner with an abnormal physical appearance and extra sensory abilities, making her a highly effective Swedish border guard but something of a […]

Review 129min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:    Steve McQueen Cast:         Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell…and more Writers:     Steve McQueen, Gillian Flynn and Lynda La Plante -Synopsis- When their husbands pay the ultimate price for a life of crime and leave them with debts to dangerous people, a group of disparate Chicago widows form their […]

Review 116min Genre:     Action , Drama, War Director:  Zhang Yimou Cast:       Deng Chao, Sun Li, Zheng Ryan…and more Writers:   Li Wei and Zhang Yimou -Synopsis- At the end of the ‘Three Kingdom’s’ era in warring third century China, an arrogant young king languishes on the throne of Pei and holds to a peace accord, putting […]

Review 104min Genre:     Drama Director:  Paul Dano Cast:       Ed Oxenbould, Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal…and more Writers:   Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan and Richard Ford -Synopsis- Having just settled into life in picturesque suburban Montana of the early 1960s, a dignified teenager begins to suffer in silence as he watches his family fall apart when his dad […]

Review 121min Genre:     Action , Horror , Thriller Director:  Panos Cosmatos Cast:       Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache…and more Writers:   Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn -Synopsis- Broken by loss and hell bent on revenge, a man seeks bloody vengeance on the sinister cult and charismatic leader who took from him the love of his life, […]