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Monster (2023) (Japanese Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 6, 2023

Review 126min Genre:       Drama, Thriller Director:     Hirokazu Kore-eda Cast:         Soya Kurokawa, Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama…and more Writers:     Yûji Sakamoto -Synopsis- A young Japanese boy’s single mother takes matters into her own hands when his behaviour takes a turn towards the odd and disturbing and she suspects his school life to be the cause, as she […]

The Fabelmans (2022)

Posted by Gui on January 27, 2023

Review 151min Genre:       Drama Director:     Steven Spielberg Cast:         Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano…and more Writers:     Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner -Synopsis- In post war suburban America, a boy with big dreams is beguiled by the magic of the pictures and nurtured by his free-spirited mother to become a storyteller himself, as he […]

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 10, 2022

Review 117min Genre:       Comedy, Family, Musical Director:     Matthew Warchus Cast:         Alisha Weir, Lashana Lynch, Emma Thompson…and more Writers:     Dennis Kelly and Roald Dahl -Synopsis- Sent by her spiteful neglectful parents to a notorious school run by a monstrous headmistress with an iron fist, a young English girl genius is nurtured by a loving teacher and […]

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, […]

IT Chapter Two (2019)

Posted by Gui on September 7, 2019

Review 169min Genre:       Horror, Thriller Director:    Andy Muschietti Cast:         Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Skarsgård…and more Writers:     Gary Dauberman and Stephen King -Synopsis- Twenty-seven years after escaping the claws of a murderous clown-like demon, tragedy and a fateful call reunites the ‘Losers Club’ in Derry to take a final stand against a resurgent Pennywise and […]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Posted by Gui on August 24, 2019

Review 108min Genre:       Horror, Mystery, Thriller Director:    André Øvredal Cast:         Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur…and more Writers:     Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Guillermo del Toro…more -Synopsis- When a group of teenagers discover a manifesting book of scary stories in a creepy abandoned mansion in late 1960s USA, they unleash a dark fate upon their […]

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 […]

IT (2017)

Posted by Gui on September 9, 2017

Review 135min Genre:       Drama, Horror, Thriller Director:    Andy Muschietti Cast:         Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard…and more Writers:     Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, Stephen King… and more -Synopsis- When the children of Derry Maine start to mysteriously disappear, a group of 80s teenage outcasts are terrorised and hunted by a supernatural sinister being who takes the […]

Moonlight (2016)

Posted by Gui on February 17, 2017

Review 111min Genre:       Drama Director:    Barry Jenkins Cast:         Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris…and more Writers:     Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney -Synopsis- Barry Jenkins writes and directs a chronicle of the life of a young gay black man in modern America, as he struggles to come to terms with his sexuality and a rough […]

Central Intelligence (2016)

Posted by Gui on July 1, 2016

Review 108min Genre:     Action, Comedy Director:  Rawson Marshall Thurber Cast:       Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan…and more Writers:   Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen & Rawson Marshall Thurber -Synopsis- Two former high school friends; one now a mild-mannered accountant and the other a CIA super agent, are reunited and thrown together into a web of international espionage […]