Posted by Gui on April 5, 2017
Review 107min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Pablo Larraín Cast: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán…and more Writer: Guillermo Calderón -Synopsis- Director Pablo Larraín’s unique fictional detective-thriller treatment of the story of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and communist party politician Pablo Neruda, who was persecuted by the government when a right-leaning administration took power […]
Posted by Gui on December 17, 2015
Review 95min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music Director: Lenny Abrahamson Cast: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal Writers: Jon Ronson & Peter Straughan -Synopsis- A young man’s mundane life in small-town Ireland is transformed when he joins a bizarre underground experimental pop band fronted by an enigmatic singer who never removes his oversized cartoon costume head, […]
Posted by Gui on November 2, 2015
Review 93min Genre: Horror, Drama Director: Jennifer Kent Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney…and more Writer: Jennifer Kent -Synopsis- A widower, struggling with the tragic death of her husband and her young troubled son’s obsession with an imaginary monster that stalks them, soon finds that their demons are all too real in this […]
Posted by Gui on October 29, 2015
Review 114min Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy Director: Ben Stiller Cast: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn…and more Writers: Steve Conrad and James Thurber Walter Mitty is a chronic daydreamer who lives a mundane life as a photograph technician at “Life” magazine, when the company moves online and everyone’s job is threatened, Walter embarks on a […]
Posted by Gui on September 21, 2015
Review 106min Genre: Documentary Director: Mark Hartley Cast: Elliott Gould, Franco Zeffirelli, Dolph Lundgren…and more Writers: Mark Hartley Mark Hartley documentary about the meteoric rise & fall of B-movie Indie film studio Cannon Films whose extraordinary success changed the movie industry for better or worse, and whose fate was inextricably linked to that of its […]
Posted by Gui on September 2, 2015
Review 165min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Olivier Assayas Cast: Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra…and more Writers: Olivier Assayas and Dan Franck Adapted from the award-winning TV mini-series and based on a real but disputed story, ‘Carlos The Jackal’ is the extraordinary tale of how a Venezuelan Marxist-Leninist aligned himself with global revolutionary […]
Posted by Gui on May 17, 2015
Review 104min Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann …and more Writer: Alejandro Amenábar Eerie period mystery/horror set at the end of World War II in the British Channel Islands starring Nicole Kidman as a mother of two children with a rare condition that makes them allergic to […]
Posted by Gui on April 28, 2015
Review 130min Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance Director: Jeff Nichols Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Reese Witherspoon Writer: Jeff Nichols In rural Arkansas on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river, a couple of teenage country boys stumble upon “Mud”, a mysterious stranger on the run from dangerous men and the law, as an unlikely bond […]
Posted by Gui on March 31, 2015
Review 102min Genre: Drama, Mystery, Comedy Director: John Michael McDonagh Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, Chris O’Dowd …and more Writer: John Michael McDonagh The life of a good small-town Catholic priest on the rural coast of Ireland is thrown into turmoil when his life is threatened anonymously during confession, as the day of his impending […]
Posted by Gui on February 5, 2015
Review & Recommendation 102min Genre: Drama Director: Darren Aronofsky Cast: Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly…and more Writers: Darren Aronofsky & Hubert Selby Jr. The life of a humble young New Yorker, his friends and mother are thrown into chaos by drug-abuse as they continue down an increasingly dark path in this gritty drama from […]
Posted by Gui on January 2, 2015
119min Genre: Comedy, Drama Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu Cast: Michael Keaton , Edward Norton, Emma Stone …and more Writers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone …and more Michael Keaton ironically stars as an ageing actor, once famous for playing a masked superhero, who stages a Broadway play in order to reclaim past glories while keeping […]
Posted by Gui on December 31, 2014
105min Genre: Drama, Fact-Based, Comedy Director: Tim Burton Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston …and more Writers: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Amy Adams stars as world famous US painter Margaret Keane in a true-life story of her early life as an artist in the 50s and relationship with her conman husband Walter, played […]
Posted by Gui on December 24, 2014
150min Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Paul …and more Writers: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Steven Zaillian … and more Legendary director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien) brings to the big screen his version of the Biblical story of Moses’ odyssey from Egyptian nobleman to outcast to the liberator […]
Posted by Gui on December 12, 2014
144min Genre: Action, Fantasy, Adventure Director: Peter Jackson Cast: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen …and more Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson… and more Having re-claimed “The Lonely Mountain” and left Bard and the people of Lake-town to deal with the dragon Smaug, the company of Thorin must now defend their homeland from […]
Posted by Gui on December 5, 2014
115min Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller Director: Kevin Macdonald Cast: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn …and more Writers: Dennis Kelly Jude Law stars as a down-on-his-luck Scottish submarine captain forced to take a job searching the bottom of the Black Sea to find a Nazi U-Boat filled with gold, tensions rise between his multinational crew […]
Posted by Gui on November 21, 2014
86min Genre: Comedy, Mockumentary Director: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi Cast: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh …and more Writers: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi A small group of ancient European Vampire housemates invite a camera crew into their lives to get a glimpse of how they cope with the complexities of living in modern day […]
Posted by Gui on November 20, 2014
96min Genre: Drama, Fact-Based, Crime Director: Steve McQueen Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham …more Writers: Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh Set in the early 1980’s and Based on real events during the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland, Hunger follows the story of Provisional IRA member and self-declared Political Prisoner Bobby Sands, who following years of […]
Posted by Gui on November 17, 2014
97min Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery Director: Duncan Jones Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott …and more Writers: Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker Humanity has solved its energy and environmental problems by mining Helium-3 on the Moon which makes nuclear fusion possible on Earth. Astronaut/caretaker Sam Bell is the only man on a semi-automated lunar mining […]
Posted by Gui on November 14, 2014
114min Genre: Drama, War, Fact-Based Director: Morten Tyldum Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance …more Writers: Andrew Hodges, Graham Moore Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the legendary British mathematician and wartime code-breaker who helped to end World War II and save millions of lives and in the process become the father of modern […]
Posted by Gui on November 7, 2014
169min Genre: Sci-fi, Adventure, Drama Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway … Writers: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan Planet earth has become a dust-bowl with humanity struggling to grow enough food to survive and where farmers are valued above others, Cooper a former space-pilot engineer joins a group of scientists on humanity’s […]
Posted by Gui on November 1, 2014
120min Genre: Mystery, Fantasy, Drama, Romance Director: Alexandre Aja Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella …and more Writers: Joe Hill, Keith Bunin Daniel Radcliffe stars as a young man who becomes the town pariah when he is suspected of the murder of his girlfriend, he then begins to grow horns with dark supernatural confessional […]
Posted by Gui on October 28, 2014
117min Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime Director: Dan Gilroy Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed …and more Writers: Dan Gilroy A desperate and obsessive man stumbles upon the world of on-the-scene crime reporting on the streets of L.A. and becomes obsessed with making it in the world of local news, fuelled by sensationalist local news […]
Posted by Gui on October 22, 2014
134min Genre: Action, War, Drama Director: David Ayer Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman …and more Writers: David Ayer Brad Pitt stars as a battle-hardened US Army Sergeant leading his Tank crew in the dying days of World War II through the desperate but dangerous final resistance of Nazi Germany. Written and Directed by […]
Posted by Gui on October 19, 2014
99min Genre: Drama, Thriller, War Director: Yann Demange Cast: Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson …and more Writers: Gregory Burke A young private in the British army is deployed to 1970s Northern Ireland at the height of “The Troubles” to help control the volatile streets of West Belfast, only to find himself cut-off from his […]
Posted by Gui on October 19, 2014
149min Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Director: David Fincher Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon …and more Writer: Gillian Flynn A big city writer and his wife are forced to move back to his small-town roots to the detriment of their marriage only to find that his wife goes missing and is […]
Posted by Gui on September 19, 2014
114 min Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime Director: Scott Frank Cast: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour…and more Writers: Scott Frank , Lawrence Block Set in the late 90’s, Liam Neeson stars as a tough New York ex-cop turned private investigator hired by a drug-lord to track down the men who kidnapped and brutally murdered his […]
Posted by Gui on September 14, 2014
122 min Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: Anton Corbijn Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright…more Writers: Andrew Bovell , John le Carré The Late, Great Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a German spy in modern day Hamburg on the trail of a young illegal Chechen immigrant whom he believes is involved in the global […]
Posted by Gui on August 30, 2014
124 min Genre: Family, Fact-Based, Comedy, Drama, Sport Director: Craig Gillespie Cast: Jon Hamm, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal…and more Writers: Thomas McCarthy Based on a true story, Jon Hamm stars as a down-on-his-luck American sports agent who gambles on a strategy of scouting Indian cricketers through an X-factor-like talent contest to become Major League Baseball […]
Posted by Gui on August 29, 2014
104 min Genre: Comedy, Action Director: Luke Greenfield Cast: Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Andy Garcia…and more Writers: Luke Greenfield , Nicholas Thomas A couple of L.A. friends stuck in a rut decide to impersonate Police officers and take it too far with disastrous and hilarious consequences. Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. […]
Posted by Gui on August 22, 2014
103 min Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: David Michôd Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy…and more Writers: Joel Edgerton & David Michôd Set in the harsh Australian Outback 10 years after an unspecified future economic apocalypse, Guy Pearce stars a gritty loner on a mission to recover his car stolen by criminals on the run, on the […]
Posted by Gui on August 22, 2014
89 min Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller Director: Luc Besson Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Min-sik Choi, Morgan Freeman…and more Writers: Luc Besson Scarlett Johansson stars as a young American in Taiwan caught up in an international drug-deal gone wrong the results of which see her unlock the full capacity of the human brain with almost supernatural consequences, bad […]
Posted by Gui on August 1, 2014
121min Genre: Comic-Book, Action, Adventure, Comedy Director: James Gunn Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper…and more Writers: James Gunn , Nicole Perlman , Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning Adventurer, thief and Galactic rogue Peter Quill is hunted across the corners of space after discovering a powerful and dangerous artifact and is forced to join […]
Posted by Gui on July 17, 2014
130min Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Drama Director: Matt Reeves Cast: Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Andy Serkis…and more Writers: Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver & Pierre Boulle We find our planet many years after the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes where humanity has been decimated by the Simian-Flu leaving pockets of survivors […]
Posted by Gui on July 15, 2014
166min Genre: Drama Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette…and more Writers: Richard Linklater Writer/Director Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, School of Rock) brings us an ultra-realistic coming of age drama following a 6 year-old boy over a 12 year period and showing the trials and tribulations of a seemingly typical 21st century American […]
Posted by Gui on June 27, 2014
114min Genre: Comedy, Drama Director: Jon Favreau Cast: Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson…and more Writer: Jon Favreau A top L.A. chef in a creative slump loses his job and reputation through bad social-media etiquette only to take a food truck across America and in the process find himself and fix his relationship […]
Posted by Gui on June 19, 2014
112min Genre: Family-Fun, Adventure, Drama Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cast: Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis…and more Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant , Reif Larsen A precocious 10 year old boy-scientist escapes his dysfunctional family in rural Montana and takes an adventure across the USA to accept an award at the Smithsonian Institute for […]
Posted by Gui on June 6, 2014
112min Genre: Comedy, Action Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube…and more Writers: Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel , Rodney Rothman, Jonah Hill Officers Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) return to our screens in the buddy-cop comedy blockbuster of this summer with much of the same formula from the successful […]
Posted by Gui on May 26, 2014
131min Genre: Comic-Book, Action, Adventure, Sci-fi Director: Bryan Singer Cast: Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy …and more Writers: Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn Director Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men helm to unite the casts from the original films and the prequel X-Men: First Class in an epic time-travel […]
Posted by Gui on May 17, 2014
123min Genre: Action, Adventure, Disaster, Sci-fi Director: Gareth Edwards Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Bryan Cranston Ken Watanabe…more Writers: Max Borenstein, Dave Callaham Scientists awaken something ancient and huge with disastrous consequences for humanity, director Gareth Edwards brings us his interpretation of the sci-fi monster movie classic Godzilla starring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, […]
Posted by Gui on May 14, 2014
85min Genre: Drama Director: Steven Knight Cast: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman…and more Writer: Steven Knight The ever intense Tom Hardy plays a concrete construction manager driving through the motorways of the UK to do the right thing in his eyes while risking his family, career and everything he has worked hard to achieve in […]
Posted by Gui on May 13, 2014
109min Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller Director: David Ayer Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick…and more Writers: David Ayer End of Watch follows officers Taylor & Zavala of the LAPD as they navigate and protect the streets of South Central Los Angeles from increasingly bold and violent gangs and organised crime. Writer-Director David Ayer (Training […]
Posted by Gui on May 13, 2014
106min Genre: Documentary, Fact Based, Sport Director: Asif Kapadia Cast: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Ron Dennis…and more Writers: Manish Pandey Multi award-wining Senna is a documentary from British Filmmaker Asif Kapadia chronicling the life and times of the late-great Brazilian Formula 1 racing legend and sport superstar Ayrton Senna. The film seamlessly combines archive footage […]
Posted by Gui on April 12, 2014
115min Genre: Comedy, Drama Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Will Forte…and more Writers: Bob Nelson Directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt), Nebraska stars Bruce Dern in an Oscar nominated performance as Woody Grant, an alcoholic elderly man driving his small town family to despair with his obsession with getting to Nebraska […]
Posted by Gui on April 12, 2014
83min Genre: Documentary, Fact-Based Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite Cast: Tilikum, Dave Duffus, Samantha Berg …and more Writers: Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Eli B. Despres, Tim Zimmermann If you enjoy documentaries that challenge long held beliefs in things you’ve taken for granted then Blackfish is a must watch for you. This is essentially a film that questions the way […]