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Anora (2024)- BFI London Film Festival 2024

Posted by Gui on October 20, 2024

Review 219min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance Director:   Sean Baker Cast:       Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelshtein, Karren Karagulian…and more Writers:   Sean Baker -Synopsis- A spirited young New York exotic dancer and working girl finds a seemingly fairytale way out of the sex industry when she beguiles and swiftly marries a wild and wealthy young Russian, only […]

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 […]

Triangle of Sadness (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 16, 2022

Review 147min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Ruben Östlund Cast:         Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson…and more Writers:     Ruben Östlund -Synopsis- In the lap of luxury on a swanky private cruise, a young model couple find themselves trapped with an array of morally questionable mega rich passengers when disaster strikes, as cliques and hierarchies are turned […]

White Noise (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 14, 2022

Review 136min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Thriller Director:     Noah Baumbach Cast:         Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy…and more Writers:     Noah Baumbach and Don DeLillo -Synopsis- A quirky academic and his anxious wife struggle to lead their paranoid young family through the turmoil of everyday life in suburban 1980s America, only to be forced onto a […]

Deerskin (2019) (French Language)

Posted by Gui on May 20, 2020

Review 77min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Horror Director:     Quentin Dupieux Cast:         Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy…and more Writers:     Quentin Dupieux -Synopsis- A curious French man develops an obsession with a brown suede deerskin jacket with its own personality, as he sequesters himself in a small country town and assumes the identity of a […]

Color Out of Space (2020)

Posted by Gui on February 29, 2020

Review 111min Genre:       Comedy, Horror, Sci-fi Director:     Richard Stanley Cast:         Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur…and more Writers:     Richard Stanley, Scarlett Amaris and H.P. Lovecraft -Synopsis- Things get weird in small town rural America when a meteorite strikes the Gardner farm, as their behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre and the lines of reality are blurred […]

Parasite (2019) (Korean Language)

Posted by Gui on February 6, 2020

Review 132min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:     Bong Joon Ho Cast:         Song Kang-ho, Jo Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik…and more Writers:     Bong Joon Ho and Jin Won Han -Synopsis- Struggling on the margins of Korean society, a young man and his unemployed family find their fortunes changed when they infiltrate an all-too-trusting wealthy local family, only to […]

Thoroughbreds (2018)

Posted by Gui on April 7, 2018

Review 92min Genre:       Drama, Thriller Director:    Cory Finley Cast:         Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin…and more Writer:      Cory Finley -Synopsis- Two well-to-do suburban Connecticut teens rekindle a childhood friendship and bond over their challenging but opposing personalities and outsider characters, leading to a sinister plan to solve their family issues which quickly gets out of […]

Mom and Dad (2018)

Posted by Gui on March 8, 2018

Review 86min Genre:       Horror, Thriller Director:    Brian Taylor Cast:         Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters…and more Writer:      Brian Taylor -Synopsis- When a mysterious condition causes parents in unassuming American suburbia to turn on their kids with violent murderous intentions, a brother and sister must survive the day and avoid their rampaging folks in this demented […]

Free Fire (2017)

Posted by Gui on March 28, 2017

Review 90min Genre:       Action, Comedy, Crime Director:    Ben Wheatley Cast:         Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley…and more Writers:     Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley -Synopsis- Writer/director Ben Wheatley’s riotous mix of comedy and violence featuring an ensemble cast and set in a Boston warehouse in the late 1970s, where an arms deal gone wrong turns into […]

King Cobra (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 9, 2016

91min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Justin Kelly Cast:         Garrett Clayton, James Franco, Christian Slater…and more Writers:     Justin Kelly and D. Madison Savage -Synopsis- A handsome teenager’s cross-country casting trip turns into the start of Gay porn superstardom for “Brent Corrigan”, when he moves in with his middle-aged porn producer; but when the relationship turns […]

Zoology (Russian Language) (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 8, 2016

83min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:    Ivan I. Tverdovskiy Cast:         Natalya Pavlenkova, Dmitriy Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko…more Writer:      Ivan I. Tverdovskiy -Synopsis- When Natasha randomly and bizarrely grows a considerable tail; the life of this lonely demure Russian zookeeper begins to drastically change as a newfound sense of freedom and a second adolescence beckons in this darkly […]

Wiener-Dog (2016)

Posted by Gui on August 13, 2016

Review 88min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Todd Solondz Cast:        Greta Gerwig, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn…and more Writer:     Todd Solondz -Synopsis- The dysfunctional lives of very different people are linked by a loveable dachshund who enriches the disillusioned existences of  its various inappropriate owners in this quirky Indie black comedy from writer/director Todd Solondz. If you’ve […]