Posted by Gui on July 28, 2023
Review 180min Genre: Fact-based, Drama, War Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr.…and more Writers: Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -Synopsis- An American physicist at the height of World War II reluctantly becomes the destroyer of worlds as his relentless drive to beat the Nazis in the development […]
Posted by Gui on August 28, 2020
Review 150min Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki… Writers: Christopher Nolan -Synopsis- When fragments of the future begin to move strangely through the present and give us a glimpse of catastrophe to come, a resourceful American agent and a shadowy group of characters target a […]
Posted by Gui on April 24, 2020
Review 104min Genre: Drama, War Director: Oliver Hermanus Cast: Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Hilton Pelser…and more Writers: Oliver Hermanus and Jack Sidey -Synopsis- Struggling with his sexuality in early 80s apartheid South Africa, a stoic young white man is forced to keep his sexual identity hidden when conscripted to fight the […]
Posted by Gui on March 21, 2019
Review 127min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Ralph Fiennes Cast: Oleg Ivenko, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ralph Fiennes…and more Writers: David Hare and Julie Kavanagh… and more -Synopsis- A chronicle of the makings of Siberian ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev and the difficult non-conformist personality which forged a standout artist—from his youth in Russia through to his time performing […]
Posted by Gui on October 26, 2018
Review 141min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Damien Chazelle Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke…and more Writers: Josh Singer and James R. Hansen -Synopsis- In the middle of the cold war and at the height of the space race, an unassuming pilot and NASA astronaut from Ohio is chosen to command what would become the […]
Posted by Gui on September 1, 2018
Review 88min Genre: Drama, Music, Romance Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc…and more Writers: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki and Piotr Borkowski -Synopsis- In the gloom of post-war Poland, a musician and conductor forms a renowned performance academy made up of traditional young rural folk talents, only to fall for his star […]
Posted by Gui on February 1, 2018
Review 123min Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer…and more Writers: Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor -Synopsis- A ‘Beauty & the Beast’ style fairy-tale about oppression and boundless love set at the height of cold war paranoia in the early 1960’s, when a mute cleaner […]
Posted by Gui on August 29, 2017
Review 115min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Doug Liman Cast: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright…and more Writer: Gary Spinelli -Synopsis- Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity) directs and Tom Cruise stars in a biographical drama based on the life of the infamous Barry Seal; an American pilot and CIA stooge turned Colombian drug cartel […]
Posted by Gui on August 11, 2017
Review 115min Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller Director: David Leitch Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman…and more Writers: Kurt Johnstad, Antony Johnston and Sam Hart -Synopsis- With undercover agents being eliminated and Western intelligence under threat at the end of the cold war, an MI6 super-spy is sent to Berlin to recover a valuable intelligence […]
Posted by Gui on April 5, 2017
Review 107min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Pablo Larraín Cast: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán…and more Writer: Guillermo Calderón -Synopsis- Director Pablo Larraín’s unique fictional detective-thriller treatment of the story of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and communist party politician Pablo Neruda, who was persecuted by the government when a right-leaning administration took power […]
Posted by Gui on February 19, 2017
Review 127min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Theodore Melfi Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe…and more Writers: Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi and Margot Lee Shetterly -Synopsis- A biographical drama centred around the important but overlooked role of African-American women in the early US space program during the 1960s, including the work and struggles of […]
Posted by Gui on November 22, 2015
Review 141min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Scott Shepherd…and more Writers: Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen -Synopsis- Tom Hanks stars as American lawyer James B. Donovan, who in the late 1950s was tasked with defending a Soviet spy in a US court only to then negotiate an exchange […]
Posted by Gui on September 2, 2015
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 […]
Posted by Gui on August 14, 2015
Review 116min Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander…and more Writers: Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram, Jeff Kleeman… and more Big-screen adaptation of the classic 60’s TV show about an American CIA agent and a Soviet KGB agent forced into cooperating to stop a dangerous and shadowy criminal organization […]