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Richard Jewell (2019)

Posted by Gui on February 2, 2020

Review 131min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:     Clint Eastwood Cast:         Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde…and more Writers:     Billy Ray, Marie Brenner, Kent Alexander… and more -Synopsis- During the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, a humble Georgia security guard becomes an instant hero when he saves scores of people from a pipe bomb planted […]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

Posted by Gui on June 7, 2019

Review 131min Genre:      Comic-book, Action, Adventure, Fantasy Director:   Simon Kinberg Cast:        Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain…and more Writers:    Simon Kinberg , John Byrne, Chris Claremont… and more -Synopsis- After the showdown with ‘Apocalypse’ revealed the formidable but frightening abilities hidden inside her, ‘Jean Grey’ struggles to control a newfound cosmic power which threatens to […]

Mid90s (2018)

Posted by Gui on April 10, 2019

Review 85min Genre:       Drama Director:    Jonah Hill Cast:         Sunny Suljic, Na-kel Smith, Lucas Hedges…and more Writer:      Jonah Hill -Synopsis- It ain’t easy to figure out who you are or want to be at thirteen, but for L.A. teen ‘Stevie’ life is about to get eventful in his mid 90s summer, as he balances a troubled […]

Lords of Chaos (2019)

Posted by Gui on March 27, 2019

Review 118min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama, Music Director:  Jonas Åkerlund Cast:       Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Valter Skarsgård…and more Writers:   Dennis Magnusson, Jonas Åkerlund, Didrik Søderlind…and more -Synopsis- Norway in the late 1980s and early 90s, when a group of young outcast form a hugely influential black metal band to vent their anarchist frustrations, but as their […]

Captain Marvel (2019)

Posted by Gui on March 10, 2019

Review 124min Genre:     Comic-book, Action, Adventure, Fantasy Director:  Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Cast:       Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law…and more Writers:   Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Geneva Robertson-Dworet…more -Synopsis- When a shapeshifting alien menace leads her to Earth in the mid 1990s, a powerful ‘Kree’ warrior joins forces with a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to neutralise […]

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Posted by Gui on February 1, 2019

Review 106min Genre:       Fact-based, Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:    Marielle Heller Cast:         Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin…and more Writers:     Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty -Synopsis- When her literary career begins to wane and her work no longer pays the bills, a prickly New York writer forms an alliance and unlikely friendship with a British […]

Beautiful Boy (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on October 18, 2018

Review 120min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:    Felix Van Groeningen Cast:         Timothée Chalamet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney…and more Writers:     Felix Van Groeningen, Luke Davies, David Sheff… and more -Synopsis- As his son sinks deeper into addiction and emotional limbo while becoming a ghost to his California family, a father struggles to understand who his baby boy […]

120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017) (French Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on March 28, 2018

Review 143min Genre:       Drama Director:    Robin Campillo Cast:         Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel…more Writers:     Robin Campillo and Philippe Mangeot -Synopsis- Frustrated by government inactivity over the spread of HIV in early 1990s France, a group of AIDS activists step-up their efforts and begin taking matters into their own hands, while dealing with shifting […]

Sicilian Ghost Story (2017) (Italian Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on October 15, 2017

Review 122min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Romance Directors:   Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza Cast:         Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Sabine Timoteo…more Writers:     Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, Marco Mancassola -Synopsis- In picturesque rural Northern Sicily, a teenage boy and son of a local Mafia boss-turned-stool pigeon mysteriously disappears, only for his determined young girlfriend to defy the indifference […]

Bleed for This (2016)

Posted by Gui on December 2, 2016

Review 117min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama, Sport Director:   Ben Younger Cast:        Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds…and more Writers:    Ben Younger, Angelo Pizzo  and Pippa Bianco -Synopsis- Miles Teller stars in a biographical drama about the life of “The Pazmanian Devil” Vinny Pazienza; self-styled, ferocious East Coast American boxer and former Lightweight and Middleweight world champion, […]

Dope (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on September 3, 2015

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 […]