Review 130min Genre:      Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director:   Adam McKay Cast:        Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling…and more Writers:    Charles Randolph, Adam McKay & Michael Lewis -Synopsis- Comedy writer/director extraordinaire Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) wrangles an all-star cast in this tragic tale of corporate greed, stupidity and corruption, about a rag-tag group of Wall Street […]

Review 156min Genre:     Fact-based, Adventure, Drama, Thriller Director:  Alejandro González Iñárritu Cast:       Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson…and more Writers:   Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mark L. Smith & Michael Punke Oscar-winning writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s semi-biographical survival drama set in the unforgiving 19th century American frontier, starring  Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, a fur trapper on […]

Review 133min Genre:     Action, Drama Director:  Ryan Coogler Cast:       Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson…more Writers:   Ryan Coogler, Aaron Covington and Sylvester Stallone -Synopsis- Young Michael B. Jordan (Fantastic Four, Fruitvale Station) stars in a ‘Rocky’ spin-off as the late “Apollo Creed’s” troubled illegitimate son who enlists the help of his dad’s legendary “Italian […]

Review 118min Genre:     Drama Director:  Lenny Abrahamson Cast:       Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen…and more Writer:    Emma Donoghue -Synopsis- “Jack”, a five year-old boy, discovers the majesty of the world as he escapes the confines of a small room where he’s spent his entire life isolated from the world with his “Ma”, only to deal […]

Review 186min Genre:      Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Western Director:   Quentin Tarantino Cast:        Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samuel L. Jackson…more Writer:     Quentin Tarantino -Synopsis- In the cold post civil war American frontier, a hardened bounty-hunter and his prisoner are joined by extra passengers as they head for an isolated lodge to escape a fierce blizzard, […]

Review 120min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama, Romance Director:   Tom Hooper Cast:        Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard…and more Writers:    Lucinda Coxon & David Ebershoff -Synopsis- Transgender period drama about the unconventional love story of married Danish artists in early 20th century Europe, who struggle to cope with the husband’s transition into one of the earliest identified […]

Review 124min Genre:    Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director: David O. Russell Cast:      Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper…and more Writers:  David O. Russell and Annie Mumolo -Synopsis- Jennifer Lawrence is reunited with director David O. Russell in a semi-biographical comedy/drama based on Joy Mangano and her journey from struggling New York single mom to entrepreneur, […]

Review 135min Genre:    Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi Director: J.J. Abrams Cast:      Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Harrison Ford…and more Writers:  Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams , Michael Arndt … and more -Synopsis- 30 years after the fall of the Galactic Empire, a new dark force casts its shadow over the galaxy seeking absolute power through the destruction […]

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, […]

Review 101min Genre:      Comedy Director:   Jonathan Levine Cast:        Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie…more Writer:     Jonathan Levine, Evan Goldberg , Kyle Hunter … and more -Synopsis- As obligations mount up and “maturity” beckons, three thirtysomething New York friends bring a decade old Christmas partying tradition to an end with a drug & sex-fuelled quest to […]

Review 79min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Paul Weitz Cast:        Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden…and more Writer:     Paul Weitz -Synopsis- When her newly pregnant teenage granddaughter turns up on her doorstep asking for help, a no-nonsense lesbian grandma sets out on a journey to help her grandchild with an abortion, while both teaching and […]

Review 110min Genre:     Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-fi Director:  Paul McGuigan Cast:       Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay…more Writers:   Max Landis and Mary Shelley -Synopsis- Modern re-telling of the classic 19th century cautionary tale and monster story, told from the perspective of Frankenstein’s assistant and confidant “Igor” as he helps the gifted but obsessed medical […]

118min Genre:      Drama, Romance Director:   Todd Haynes Cast:        Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler…and more Writers:    Phyllis Nagy and Patricia Highsmith -Synopsis- Stylish period drama set in 1950s New York starring Cate Blanchett as a well-to-do woman in a troubled marriage who develops a romantic relationship with a unique young department store clerk, a forbidden […]

Review 100min Genre:      Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western Director:   Peter Sohn Cast:        Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Elliott…and more Writers:    Peter Sohn, Erik Benson , Meg LeFauve … and more -Synopsis- In an alternate pre-history where the Dinosaurs survived and live like early humans who consider savage cave-people to be primitive critters, a timid young […]

Review 141min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama Director:   Steven Spielberg Cast:        Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Scott Shepherd…and more Writers:    Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen -Synopsis- Tom Hanks stars as American lawyer James B. Donovan, who in the late 1950s was tasked with defending a Soviet spy in a US court only to then negotiate an exchange […]

Review 122min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama Director:   Danny Boyle Cast:        Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen…and more Writers:    Aaron Sorkin and Walter Isaacson -Synopsis- Based on the bestselling biography by Walter Isaacson and written & directed by Academy award winners Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle respectively, Michael Fassbender stars as the late Apple Inc. CEO and […]

Review 104min Genre:      Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director:   Nicholas Hytner Cast:        Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent…and more Writer:     Alan Bennett -Synopsis- British film adaptation of the autobiographical play by Alan Bennett, starring Maggie Smith as an eccentric and ornery transient elderly lady who lived in a battered van on his driveway and with whom he […]

Review 88min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Sean Baker Cast:        Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian…and more Writers:    Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch -Synopsis- A feisty transgender prostitute, aided by her close co-worker friend, goes on an emotional rampage across the gritty streets of Los Angeles as she hunts down her cheating pimp boyfriend and […]

Review 101min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   John Wells Cast:        Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl…and more Writers:    Steven Knight, Michael Kalesniko -Synopsis- Bradley Cooper stars as a former fast-living celebrated prima donna chef, now reformed and trying to resurrect his career with a re-location to London and the goal of revitalizing a top restaurant while […]

Review 112min Genre:      Drama, Romance Director:   John Crowley Cast:        Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson…and more Writers:    Nick Hornby and Colm Tóibín -Synopsis- Anglo/Irish period drama starring Saoirse Ronan as “Eilis”, a young Irish immigrant in 1950s New York who’s torn between two lives and two countries separated by a vast ocean, a heart-splitting romance […]

Review 88min USA/UAE Genre:    Documentary, Animation Director: Davis Guggenheim Cast:      Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai… -Synopsis- Director Davis Guggenheim’s chronicle of the life, so far, of Nobel Prize-winning Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, from being shot by the Taliban for suggesting girls should be educated to moving to Britain and becoming a global […]

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 […]

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 […]

Review 148min Genre:     Action, Adventure, Mystery Director:  Sam Mendes Cast:       Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux…and more Writers:   John Logan, Neal Purvis , Robert Wade…and more -Synopsis- Following the events of ‘Skyfall’, MI6 and its agents are under threat from the power of a new British government surveillance agency, while Bond scours the globe to […]

Review 137min Genre:      Drama, War Director:   Cary Joji Fukunaga Cast:        Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Kurt Egyiawan…and more Writers:    Cary Joji Fukunaga, Uzodinma Iweala -Synopsis- In an unspecified war-torn African country, a young boy’s life is plunged into chaos when his family is destroyed by the army and he’s driven into the hands of a rebel […]

Review 108min Genre:     Drama Director:  Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Cast:       Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Reynolds, Sienna Miller…and more Writers:   Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck -Synopsis- A gambling addict, fallen on hard times, joins a charismatic free-spirited younger player as they travel the American south along the mighty Mississippi river, pushing their luck along the way and trying […]

Review 106min Genre:    Fantasy, Action, Adventure Director: Breck Eisner Cast:      Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Michael Caine…and more Writers:  Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless -Synopsis- Vin Diesel stars as a 12th Century warrior turned immortal witch-hunter who’s spent 800 years keeping the peace between humans and those with dark powers. Now in 21st Century […]

Review 119min Genre:      Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance Director:   Guillermo del Toro Cast:        Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain…and more Writers:    Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins After suffering a personal tragedy, a young 19th century American woman is seduced by a charming British aristocrat and his mysterious sister to cross the ocean and settle in their […]

Review 118min Genre:     Comedy, Romance, Sci-fi Director:   Yorgos Lanthimos Cast:        Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux…and more Writers:    Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou In a dystopian alternative reality, where single people are sent to a resort to find a compatible partner within 45 days or they’ll be turned into an animal of their choice and released […]

Review 103min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama, Sport Director:  Stephen Frears Cast:       Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd, Jesse Plemons…and more Writers:   John Hodge, David Walsh Biographical drama from British director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity) about the rise and spectacular fall of cancer survivor, 7-time Tour de France winning cyclist and disgraced drugs cheat Lance Armstrong, chronicling […]

Review 122min Genre:    Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Scott Cooper Cast:      Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch…more Writers:  Mark Mallouk, Jez Butterworth , Dick Lehr… and more Johnny Depp stars as notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, whose position as an FBI informant and brother of a Massachusetts state senator gave him virtual carte blanche to […]

Review 106min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Sarah Gavron Cast:       Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter…more Writer:    Abi Morgan Carey Mulligan stars as a young working-class wife and mother in early 20th century Britain whose life is thrown into turmoil when she gets caught up in the Suffragette movement for women’s rights. As her commitment […]

Review 123min Genre:    Fact-based, Adventure, Drama Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast:      Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Ben Kingsley…more Writers:  Robert Zemeckis, Christopher Browne & Philippe Petit Director Robert Zemeckis’ (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) dramatization of the extraordinary story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s 1974 illegal attempt to walk across a high-wire suspended 400 […]

Review 95min Genre:    Action, Comedy Director: Nima Nourizadeh Cast:      Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace…and more Writer:    Max Landis An anxiety-suffering small-town stoner discovers he is a dormant government super agent after being activated, he’ll need all the skills he never knew existed to protect his sweetheart and survive the forces sent to terminate him […]

Review 113min Genre:     Drama, Action Director:  Justin Kurzel Cast:       Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris…and more Writers:   William Shakespeare, Justin Kurzel… and more In the harshness of the European Middle-ages an ambitious Scottish nobleman, spurred on by his ruthless wife and ominous prophecies, murders the King and takes his throne. But his obsession will lead […]

Review 141min Genre:     Sci-fi, Adventure, Drama Director:  Ridley Scott Cast:       Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor…and more Writers:   Drew Goddard and Andy Weir Matt Damon stars as an astronaut inadvertently stranded on Mars after a storm forces his crew to abort their mission, with limited supplies and communication he must rely on his knowledge and […]

Review 121min Genre:    Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast:      Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin…and more Writer:   Taylor Sheridan Emily Blunt stars as an ambitious FBI agent whose moral compass is challenged by a complex US government operation to fight the escalating so-called “war on drugs”, as legal and moral lines are […]

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 […]

Review 121min Genre:    Fact-based, Adventure, Drama Director: Baltasar Kormákur Cast:      Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal…and more Writers:  William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy Harrowing true story about the exploits of a climbing expedition as they struggle to reach the mighty Everest peak only to be hit by a devastating blizzard which leaves them fighting for […]

Review 94min Genre:     Horror, Mystery, Thriller Director:  M. Night Shyamalan Cast:       Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan…and more Writer:    M. Night Shyamalan A young brother and sister are invited to spend time visiting their single mother’s estranged parents in the country, as they try to connect with their grandparents and discover why their mother became […]

Review 131min Genre:     Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:  Brian Helgeland Cast:       Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis…and more Writers:   Brian Helgeland & John Pearson Stylish and darkly comic British gangster biopic/drama starring Tom Hardy as the Kray twins Ronnie & Reggie, infamous British gangsters who terrorized the streets of London in the 50’s and 60’s while […]

Review 103min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Rick Famuyiwa Cast:        Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons…and more Writer:      Rick Famuyiwa A trio of high-school geeks trying to survive on the streets and “hoods” of southern Los Angeles get caught in a web of drug and gang activity after a chance encounter at a party, as they […]

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 […]

Review 147min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama, Music Director:   F. Gary Gray Cast:        O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti…and more Writers:    Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff , Alan Wenkus … and more Gritty ghetto biopic drama chronicling the rise of rap supergroup NWA on the dangerous streets of Compton Los Angeles, from authority-resistant local gangster-rap heroes to […]