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Green Book (2018)

Posted by Gui on January 29, 2019

Review 130min Genre:     Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director:  Peter Farrelly Cast:       Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini…and more Writers:   Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie and Nick Vallelonga -Synopsis- When a sophisticated African-American jazz and classical pianist recruits a gruff working-class Italian-American bouncer to be his driver for a tour of the early 1960s segregated American south, […]

The Mule (2018)

Posted by Gui on January 25, 2019

116min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Clint Eastwood Cast:         Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest…and more Writers:     Sam Dolnick and Nick Schenk -Synopsis- After falling on hard times and reeling from his failure as a father and husband, an elderly horticulturalist and US veteran becomes a drug mule for a notorious Mexican cartel, but struggles […]

Vice (2018)

Posted by Gui on January 23, 2019

111min Genre:       Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director:    Adam McKay Cast:         Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell…and more Writer:      Adam McKay -Synopsis- Respected by some, reviled by others, and feared by many, US political stalwart Dick Cheney rises through the ranks of the republican party, serving presidents and cleaning house in the private sector on his way […]

Oscar Nominations 2019

Posted by Gui on January 22, 2019

The culmination of the 2019 award season will return to being a February affair this year, as the great and the good of mainstream cinema gather in Hollywood on the last Sunday of the month to award the achievements in cinema over the last twelve months at the 91st edition of the Academy Awards. Although […]

Colette (2018)

Posted by Gui on January 9, 2019

Review 111min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:    Wash Westmoreland Cast:         Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough…and more Writers:     Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland & Rebecca Lenkiewicz -Synopsis- Coming of age in turn-of-the century France through her marriage to a writer-impresario who takes credit for her work, a country girl becomes the toast of the town when her […]

Golden Globe Awards 2019

Posted by Gui on January 7, 2019

As per tradition the cinematic year kicked off with one of the biggest award ceremonies in the industry calendar as the stars aligned in Beverly Hills on Sunday for the 76th annual Golden Globe awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Along with all the red carpet glitz and glamour came the task […]

Retrospective 2018- A Year in Film

Posted by Gui on January 1, 2019

After a difficult 2017 at the box office, 2018 saw the industry rally with a bumper year, topped by blockbusters like ‘Ready Player One‘, ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom‘ and ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout‘, while smaller fare like ‘I, Tonya‘, ‘Isle of Dogs‘ and ‘Hereditary‘ made it another eclectic year for film. On the supposedly more discerning […]