Review 124min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, Music Director:     Pablo Larraín Cast:         Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher…and more Writers:     Steven Knight -Synopsis- During her final days in 1970s Paris, the great Maria Callas recounts her life whilst struggling with her health and a hallucinatory pill addiction, reflecting on her loves and losses and on an incredible […]

Review 129min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, Music, Romance Director:     Bradley Cooper Cast:         Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke…and more Writers:     Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer -Synopsis- The life of acclaimed larger-than-life American conductor-composer and cultural icon Leonard Bernstein is revisited through the prism of his complicated marriage to wife and fellow artist Felicia Montealegre, as the […]

Review 158min Genre:       Drama, Music Director:     Todd Field Cast:         Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss…and more Writers:     Todd Field -Synopsis- Reeling from the pressure of being the first musical director of a prestigious German orchestra, a world-renown classical composer-conductor is plunged into an existential crisis when she struggles to balance the expectations of her […]

Review 130min Genre:     Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director:  Peter Farrelly Cast:       Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini…and more Writers:   Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie and Nick Vallelonga -Synopsis- When a sophisticated African-American jazz and classical pianist recruits a gruff working-class Italian-American bouncer to be his driver for a tour of the early 1960s segregated American south, […]

Review 110min Genre:      Fact-based, Comedy, Drama, Music Director:   Stephen Frears Cast:        Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg…and more Writer:     Nicholas Martin -Synopsis- Meryl Streep stars in a comedy/drama based on the remarkable true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, an early 20th century New York heiress and socialite who became an opera singer despite having a […]

We at FilmPhonic love a great original score, but we can’t resist wonderful visuals set to the backdrop of an often unrelated iconic classical melody that somehow works perfectly… and gives us a timeless movie moment. There are many examples but we’ve tried to pick our Top 5, what’s yours?   #5: The Marriage of […]