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 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 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:    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 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 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 […]

Review 90min Genre:      Documentary, Drama, Fact-based Director:   Crystal Moselle Cast:        Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo…more Country:   USA Documentary recounting the remarkable story of the Angulo brothers, a large group of teenage siblings who use their obsession with movies to connect to the outside world after being confined to a small New York apartment for […]

Review 108min Genre:     Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:  Joel Edgerton Cast:       Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall…and more Writer:    Joel Edgerton Simon’s idyllic life with his beautiful wife in their new home is thrown into turmoil when a bizarre old high-school acquaintance enters his life bearing mysterious gifts that reveal a terrible secret, a psychological […]

Review 131min Genre:      Action, Adventure, Thriller Director:   Christopher McQuarrie Cast:        Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner…and more Writers:    Christopher McQuarrie, Drew Pearce and Bruce Geller After secret agency the “IMF” is terminated for misconduct and super-agent Ethan Hunt is branded a “rogue agent”, with a little help from some old friends and some new ones […]

Review 84min Genre:   Western, Drama Director: John Maclean Cast:      Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn…more Writer:   John Maclean A young Scottish lad crosses the Ocean and the wild unforgiving plains of 19th Century America to find his true love who was forced to flee their homeland, as he tries to avoid a selection of cutthroats […]

Review 104min Genre:    Drama, Mystery Director: Bill Condon Cast:      Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker…and more Writers:  Mitch Cullin , Jeffrey Hatcher & Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Ian McKellen stars as an elderly Sherlock Holmes now retreated to the English countryside to contemplate his life but as his mind starts to fail him the hazy […]

Review 103min Genre:    Documentary Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Writer:   Joshua Oppenheimer Award-winning US director Joshua Oppenheimer heads a Danish documentary production chronicling an Indonesian man’s efforts to make sense of the Indonesian political “killings” (or genocide) of 1965-66 which brutally claimed the lives of between 500 thousand and 1 million people, one of which happened to […]

Review 97min Genre:    Drama Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Cast:      Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki…and more Writers : Abderrahmane Sissako & Kessen Tall On the West-African sands and plains of Mali, a small family of cattle-herders and an entire town struggle to cope with the Islamic fundamentalists that have brought so-called “Jihad” to their doorstep, as […]

Review 104min Genre:    Horror, Mystery, Drama Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast:      Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann …and more Writer:   Alejandro Amenábar Eerie period mystery/horror set at the end of World War II in the British Channel Islands starring Nicole Kidman as a mother of two children with a rare condition that makes them allergic to […]

Review 130min Genre:      Drama, Crime, Romance Director:   Jeff Nichols Cast:        Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Reese Witherspoon Writer:     Jeff Nichols In rural Arkansas on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river, a couple of teenage country boys stumble upon “Mud”, a mysterious stranger on the run from dangerous men and the law, as an unlikely bond […]

Review 141min Genre:    Comic-Book, Action, Adventure Director: Joss Whedon Cast:      Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans …and more Writers : Joss Whedon , Stan Lee & Jack Kirby The world’s greatest Superheroes reunite to protect the Earth from the menace of a rogue A.I. program that threatens humanity as we know it, as “The […]

Review 97min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Noah Baumbach Cast:        Ben Stiller, Adam Driver, Naomi Watts…and more Writer:     Noah Baumbach Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as a middle-aged New York couple whose predictable and mundane life is turned upside down when they meet a charming young couple who make them question the personal and professional […]

Review 112min Genre:    Fact-based, Drama Director: Michael Cuesta Cast:      Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Oliver Platt…and more Writers:  Peter Landesman, Gary Webb & Nick Schou Jeremy Renner stars in a mid-90s political drama based on the true story California investigative reporter Gary Webb’s shocking exposé of the crack-cocaine trade on the streets of America, after exposing […]

Review 101min Genre:      Drama Directors:  Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland Cast:        Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, , Alec Baldwin…and more Writers :   Lisa Genova , Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning performance as a middle-aged accomplished professor of linguistics and family matriarch who is unexpectedly diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, as her family struggles to […]

Review 118min Genre:    Drama Director: Kornél Mundruczó Cast:      Zsófia Psotta, Body, Sándor Zsótér…and more Writers:  Kornél Mundruczó, Viktória Petrányi & Kata Wéber A young Hungarian girl ‘Lili’ and her loyal dog ‘Hagen’ are forced apart when she is sent to stay with her estranged father, their paths diverge with Lili struggling to reconcile with her […]

Review 128min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Ava DuVernay Cast:       David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson…and more Writer :   Paul Webb David Oyelowo stars as Martin Luther King Jr. in a particular period of the American Civil Rights movement where a socio-political struggle for equal voting rights in the south led to the legendary Alabama march, […]

129min Genre:    Action, Adventure Director: Matthew Vaughn Cast:      Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson…and more Writers:  Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman…and more A talented but troubled inner-city kid is recruited by a high-level independent British Spy organization to stop a megalomaniacal tech-industry billionaire from bringing havoc to an unsuspecting world. Writer/director Matthew Vaughn brings his […]

125min Genre:    Crime, Drama Director:  J.C. Chandor Cast:       Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo…and more Writer:    J.C. Chandor Set in the most statistically dangerous year in New York City history in 1981, Oscar Isaac stars as an immigrant who having achieved his piece of the “American Dream” now struggles to protect it and […]

132min Genre:      Fact-based, Action, Drama, War Director:   Clint Eastwood Cast:        Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Jake McDorman…and more Writers:    Jason Hall, Chris Kyle, James Defelice… more Clint Eastwood directs and Bradley Cooper stars in a dramatization of the autobiography of US Navy Seal Chief Chris Kyle who is considered the US Army’s most lethal marksman ever […]

115min Genre:      Drama, Fact-based Director:   Jean-Marc Vallée Cast:        Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski …and more Writers:    Nick Hornby & Cheryl Strayed Reese Witherspoon stars in this real-life account of a young woman on a downward spiral due to a tragic event in her life, who hikes 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone […]

123min Genre:    Drama, Romance, Fact-based Director: James Marsh Cast:      Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Harry Lloyd …and more Writers:  Anthony McCarten & Jane Hawking Eddie Redmayne stars as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane in an English period-piece drama about the complex relationship between one of the greatest minds in modern human history […]

144min Genre:    Action, Fantasy, Adventure Director: Peter Jackson Cast:      Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen …and more Writers:  Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson… and more Having re-claimed “The Lonely Mountain” and left Bard and the people of Lake-town to deal with the dragon Smaug, the company of Thorin must now defend their homeland from […]

86min Genre:    Comedy, Mockumentary Director: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi Cast:      Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh …and more Writers:  Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi A small group of ancient European Vampire housemates invite a camera crew into their lives to get a glimpse of how they cope with the complexities of living in modern day […]

114min Genre:    Drama, War, Fact-Based Director: Morten Tyldum Cast:      Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance …more Writers:  Andrew Hodges, Graham Moore Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the legendary British mathematician and wartime code-breaker who helped to end World War II and save millions of lives and in the process become the father of modern […]

99min Genre:    Drama, Thriller, War Director: Yann Demange Cast:      Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson …and more Writers:  Gregory Burke A young private in the British army is deployed to 1970s Northern Ireland at the height of “The Troubles” to help control the volatile streets of West Belfast, only to find himself cut-off from his […]

103 min Genre:    Drama, Thriller Director: David Michôd Cast:      Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy…and more Writers:  Joel Edgerton & David Michôd Set in the harsh Australian Outback 10 years after an unspecified future economic apocalypse, Guy Pearce stars a gritty loner on a mission to recover his car stolen by criminals on the run, on the […]

166min Genre:    Drama Director: Richard Linklater Cast:      Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette…and more Writers:  Richard Linklater Writer/Director Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, School of Rock) brings us an ultra-realistic coming of age drama following a 6 year-old boy over a 12 year period and showing the trials and tribulations of a seemingly typical 21st century American […]

114min Genre:    Comedy, Drama Director: Jon Favreau Cast:      Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson…and more Writer:   Jon Favreau A top L.A. chef in a creative slump loses his job and reputation through bad social-media etiquette only to take a food truck across America and in the process find himself and fix his relationship […]

131min Genre:     Comic-Book, Action, Adventure, Sci-fi Director:  Bryan Singer Cast:       Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender,  James McAvoy …and more Writers:   Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn Director Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men helm to unite the casts from the original films and the prequel X-Men: First Class in an epic time-travel […]

123min Genre:    Action, Adventure, Disaster, Sci-fi Director: Gareth Edwards Cast:      Aaron Taylor-Johnson Bryan Cranston Ken Watanabe…more Writers:  Max Borenstein, Dave Callaham Scientists awaken something ancient and huge with disastrous consequences for humanity, director Gareth Edwards brings us his interpretation of the sci-fi monster movie classic Godzilla starring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, […]

83min Genre:    Documentary, Fact-Based Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite Cast:      Tilikum, Dave Duffus, Samantha Berg …and more Writers:  Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Eli B. Despres, Tim Zimmermann If you enjoy documentaries that challenge long held beliefs in things you’ve taken for granted then Blackfish is a must watch for you. This is essentially a film that questions the way […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]