Posted by Gui on March 28, 2016
Review 106min Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama, Sport Director: Dexter Fletcher Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Jo Hartley…and more Writers: Sean Macaulay & Simon Kelton -Synopsis- Underdog comedy biopic based on the true story of Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards; a plucky British amateur skier with limited ability who defied the odds and achieved his Olympian dream […]
Posted by Gui on March 4, 2016
Review 125min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: James Vanderbilt Cast: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace…and more Writers: James Vanderbilt & Mary Mapes -Synopsis- Journalistic drama chronicling the events surrounding CBS producer Mary Mapes and anchor Dan Rather’s report about president George W. Bush’s questionable military service and the subsequent backlash that cost them their careers. […]
Posted by Gui on February 11, 2016
Review 123min Genre: Fact-based, Drama, Sport Director: Peter Landesman Cast: Will Smith, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin…and more Writers: Peter Landesman and Jeanne Marie Laskas -Synopsis- Will Smith stars in a drama based on the real struggles of a brilliant immigrant forensic neuropathologist who discovered an American Football-related brain trauma disease and challenged an entire billion […]
Posted by Gui on December 31, 2015
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, […]
Posted by Gui on December 5, 2015
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 […]
Posted by Gui on November 7, 2015
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 […]
Posted by Gui on August 6, 2015
Review 97min Genre: Drama Director: David Gordon Green Cast: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Chris Messina…and more Writer: Paul Logan The great Al Pacino stars as a lonely aging locksmith who never recovered from the loss of his true love, as he wallows in resentment and struggles to cope with life’s regrets and the people around […]
Posted by Gui on July 25, 2015
Review 123min Genre: Drama, Action, Sport Director: Antoine Fuqua Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker…and more Writer: Kurt Sutter Jake Gyllenhaal undergoes another drastic physical transformation to star as undisputed light-heavyweight champion “Billy Hope”, a fierce and unpredictable competitor in and out of the ring, but when tragedy strikes and his life spirals out […]
Posted by Gui on June 27, 2015
Review 91min Genre: Family, Animation, Comedy Directors: Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin Cast: Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm…and more Writer : Brian Lynch In a spin-off prequel to the hugely successful ‘Despicable Me’ films, the Minions seek a new evil master to follow after accidentally destroying their overlords throughout history, a quest which […]
Posted by Gui on June 26, 2015
Review 93min Genre: Comedy Director: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Imogen Poots, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston…and more Writers : Peter Bogdanovich, Louise Stratten “Izzy” is a fast-talking Brooklyn call-girl and aspiring actress whose client “meeting” with Broadway director Arnold becomes life-changing when she unknowingly auditions for one of his plays, when everyone agrees Izzy must get the […]
Posted by Gui on May 23, 2015
Review 93min Genre: Horror Director: Gil Kenan Cast: Kennedi Clements, Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt …more Writer: David Lindsay-Abaire, Steven Spielberg (original) Remake of the 80s Horror classic this time featuring the Bowen family who move into a quiet suburban house only to find themselves terrorized by ghosts capable of manipulating the “living-world”, when their daughter […]
Posted by Gui on May 9, 2015
Review 113min Genre: Drama Director: Céline Sciamma Cast: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Cyril Mendy…and more Writer: Céline Sciamma With a bleak future ahead a teenage African immigrant girl living in the suburban “Ghettos” outside of Paris finds solace and belonging within a group of tough-talking teenagers, life seems better for “Vic” in her new gang […]
Posted by Gui on April 18, 2015
Review 137min Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director: Daniel Espinosa Cast: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman…and more Writers: Richard Price, Tom Rob Smith Former war hero and MGB (Soviet secret police) agent Leo Demidov is a top operator in Stalin’s Soviet internal security service but when he is betrayed by the system he worked to […]
Posted by Gui on April 16, 2015
Review 95min Genre: Drama, Fantasy Director: Ryan Gosling Cast: Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan…more Writer: Ryan Gosling In a desolate town ravaged by the effects of a financial crisis, a single mother’s struggles see her descend into a depraved underworld while her teenage son’s quest to escape their living nightmare leads him to […]
Posted by Gui on April 8, 2015
Review 101min Genre: Action, Thriller Director: Chad Stahelski Cast: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Willem Dafoe…and more Writer: Derek Kolstad A retired legendary assassin mourning for his dead wife is forced back into action when Russian gangsters take the last thing in the world that he holds dear, as Keanu Reeves stars as ‘John Wick’ in […]
Posted by Gui on April 7, 2015
Review 95min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Daniel Alfredson Cast: Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Anthony Hopkins…and more Writers: William Brookfield, Peter R. de Vries Big-screen dramatization of the real 1983 kidnapping of Dutch CEO and heir to the Heineken beer empire Freddy Heineken, a well planned Amsterdam operation which resulted in the largest ever private […]
Posted by Gui on March 14, 2015
Review 94min Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family Director: Tim Johnson Cast: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin…and more Writers: Matt Ember, Tom J. Astle , Adam Rex When a cuddly nomadic race of Aliens named the ‘Boov’ decide to settle the Earth and “re-locate” all humans to Australia, a young precocious girl named ‘Tip’ is […]
Posted by Gui on March 13, 2015
Review 107min Genre: Romance, Drama, War Director: Saul Dibb Cast: Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts…and many more Writers: Matt Charman, Saul Dibb, Irène Némirovsky Set in the early days of the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, Michelle Williams stars as a young French villager caught between her burgeoning feelings towards a very different sort of […]
Posted by Gui on February 21, 2015
Review 133min Genre: Action, Mystery, Drama, Crime Director: Michael Mann Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Leehom Wang…and more Writer: Morgan Davis Foehl Following a series of devastating international cyber-attacks, US and Chinese authorities are forced together to track down the perpetrators by turning to a convicted and imprisoned American hacker who originally designed the code […]
Posted by Gui on January 31, 2015
148min Genre: Crime, Comedy, Mystery, Drama Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston…and more Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon…and more Joaquin Phoenix stars as a drug-addicted detective on the sleazy streets of 1970′s L.A. investigating the disappearance of his former girlfriend and her millionaire boyfriend, a genre-splitting dark comedy mystery […]
Posted by Gui on November 24, 2014
139min Genre: Biography, Drama, Music Director: Tate Taylor Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Viola Davis …and more Writers: Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth & Steven Baigelman The life of The Late Great music legend James Brown gets the big-screen treatment à la Ray and Walk The Line, Chadwick Boseman stars in a story spanning Brown’s tough […]
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 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 […]