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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 12, 2023

Review 206min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama, Romance Director:     Martin Scorsese Cast:         Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro…and more Writers:     Martin Scorsese, Eric Roth and David Grann -Synopsis- In 1920s Oklahoma a series of unexplained murders and exploitation of the oil-rich Osage Nation sparks an FBI investigation which uncovers a sobering conspiracy, triggering the breakdown […]

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 18, 2022

Review 109min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Martin McDonagh Cast:         Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon…and more Writers:     Martin McDonagh -Synopsis- A lifelong friendship on an isolated island off the Irish coast is unexpectedly ended when one shuns the other for an incomprehensible reason, and the other refuses to accept it, leading to a feud which […]

The Power of the Dog (2021)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 11, 2021

Review 126min Genre:       Drama, Romance, Western Director:     Jane Campion Cast:         Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons…more Writers:     Jane Campion and Thomas Savage -Synopsis- In early 20th century rural Montana, a domineering rancher ruthlessly rules his roost only for his life to be upended by the arrival of his brother’s new widower wife and her son, […]

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Posted by Gui on November 16, 2018

Review 134min Genre:     Family, Adventure, Fantasy Director:  David Yates Cast:       Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston…more Writer:    J.K. Rowling -Synopsis- When ‘Gellert Grindelwald’ escapes the clutches of the ministry of magic and heads to Europe, Magizoologist ‘Newt Scamander’ must unite with figures from his past, friends from across the pond and a legendary mentor to […]

Wonderstruck (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on March 6, 2018

Review 116min Genre:      Drama, Family, Mystery Director:   Todd Haynes Cast:        Millicent Simmonds, Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore…and more Writer:     Brian Selznick -Synopsis- The intersecting story of two American twelve-year-olds who are separated by geography and half a century but connected through shared experiences, only to be brought together by cosmic forces and a city-spanning adventure in […]

Live by Night (2017)

Posted by Gui on January 14, 2017

Review 128min Genre:       Crime, Drama Director:    Ben Affleck Cast:         Ben Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Sienna Miller…and more Writers:     Ben Affleck and Dennis Lehane -Synopsis- Ben Affleck returns to the director’s chair and stars as an ambitious but morally conflicted prohibition era gangster trying to get his piece of the American dream, but his mob “paradise” has […]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Posted by Gui on November 19, 2016

Review 133min Genre:     Family, Adventure, Fantasy Director:  David Yates Cast:       Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell…and more Writer:    J.K. Rowling -Synopsis- Inspired by her 2001 book of the same name, J.K. Rowling  turns screenwriter in this spinoff/prequel to the iconic ‘Harry Potter’ books & films; following the fortunes of “magizoologist” and former Hogwarts student “Newt […]