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Paths Of Glory (1957) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on April 12, 2014

88min Genre:    War, Drama Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast:      Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, George Macready… and more Writers:  Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson … and more Kirk Douglas stars as Colonel Dax of the French army in the trenches of World War I, forced to defend his men’s lives from overzealous military generals when they […]

Chopper (2000) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on April 1, 2014

94min Genre:    Crime, Comedy, Fact-Based Director: Andrew Dominik Cast:      Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo …and more Writers:  Mark Brandon Read, Andrew Dominik Based on the autobiographies of legendary larger-than-life Australian criminal and now bestselling author Mark “Chopper” Read, Chopper paints a brutal but darkly comic picture of the life of a man as comfortable […]

Gravity (2013) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 22, 2014

91min Genre:    Thriller, Drama, Sci-fi Director: Alfonso Cuarón Cast:      Sandra Bullock, George Clooney …and more Writers:  Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón This is an extraordinary technical achievement in filmmaking and as groundbreaking as Avatar but with an ultimately more original storyline, Gravity is a nerve-wracking more sci-fact than sci-fi thriller. Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the […]

The Monuments Men (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 20, 2014

118min Genre:    War, Drama, Comedy, Fact Based Director: George Clooney Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett…more Writers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter  The 12A Rating for this film suggests that you should not expect a particularly gritty or profound film despite being set in World War II and […]

A Prophet (Un prophète) (2009) (French Language, English subtitled)

Posted by Gui on March 14, 2014

155min Genre:     Drama, Thriller, Crime Director:  Jacques Audiard Cast:       Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif …and more Writers:   Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri… more A Prophet is a gritty and uncompromising drama set in modern day France and tells the story of Malik a young French-Algerian man navigating his way through a tough […]

The Lego Movie (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 14, 2014

100min Genre:      Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy Director:   Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Cast:        Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman Writers:    Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller You might not think that a movie about a popular children’s toy franchise would be full of satirical humour and social commentary but The Lego Movie […]

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 13, 2014

117min Genre:    Drama, Fact Based Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Cast:      Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto …more Writers:  Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack Based on a true story and set in the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Texas, this is the story of Ron Woodroof a rough living Texas good ole boy whose life is […]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 1, 2014

99min Genre:    Comedy, Adventure Director: Wes Anderson Cast:      Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Revolori…and more Writers:  Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness If you are a fan of the Wes Anderson cinematic universe you can expect all of the usual elements in this film, if not then expect an original storyline full of quirky […]