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Dune: Part Two (2024)

Posted by Gui on March 8, 2024

Review 166min Genre:       Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-fi Director:     Denis Villeneuve Cast:         Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson… and more Writers:     Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts & Frank Herbert -Synopsis- Paul Atreides continues his mystical journey to become one with the Fremen and fulfil the prophecy of the “Kwisatz Haderach”, while the jealous Emperor and the […]

Dune (2021)

Posted by Gui on October 25, 2021

Review 155min Genre:       Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-fi Director:     Denis Villeneuve Cast:         Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac…more Writers:     Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, Eric Roth & Frank Herbert -Synopsis- The talented son and heir of a galactic noble family is sent to a dangerous planet with his people to bring peace and protect their […]

Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on October 7, 2019

Review 112min Genre:     Drama Director:   Ciro Guerra Cast:       Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Gana Bayarsaikhan…and more Writers:   J.M. Coetzee -Synopsis- On the edge of an unspecified foreign empire, a magistrate at a remote desert outpost begins to have a crisis of conscience when the brutal treatment of the bordering nomadic ‘barbarians’, and his role in it, […]

Papillon (2018)

Posted by Gui on December 30, 2018

Review 133min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Michael Noer Cast:         Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Roland Møller…and more Writers:     Aaron Guzikowski, Henri Charrière, Dalton Trumbo…more -Synopsis- Accused of murder and imprisoned on a brutal and remote penal colony in 1930s French Guiana, Henri Charrière endures the hardships of his sentence while making enemies and forming an […]

The Lost City of Z (2017)

Posted by Gui on March 26, 2017

Review 141min Genre:       Fact-based, Adventure, Drama Director:    James Gray Cast:         Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson…and more Writers:     James Gray and David Grann -Synopsis- Charlie Hunnam stars in an period adventure adapted from David Grann’s book and based on the real life exploits of intrepid British early 20th century explorer Lt. Colonel Percival Fawcett—who mysteriously […]

A United Kingdom (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 5, 2016

111min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama, Romance Director:  Amma Asante Cast:       David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport…and more Writer:    Guy Hibbert -Synopsis- Amma Asante directs a biographical drama based on the true story of Prince and future first president Seretse Khama of Botswana and his controversial interracial relationship with his white British wife Ruth Williams, an early […]

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Posted by Gui on July 7, 2016

Review 110min Genre:     Action, Adventure Director:  David Yates Cast:       Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz…more Writers:   Adam Cozadl , Craig Brewer and Edgar Rice Burroughs -Synopsis- After years of living as “Lord Greystoke” in late 19th century England; “Tarzan” is manipulated into returning to his wild jungle roots only to find himself at the centre […]

Embrace of the Serpent (2015) (Spanish & other languages)

Posted by Gui on June 10, 2016

Review 124min Genre:       Fact-based, Adventure, Drama Director:    Ciro Guerra Cast:         Brionne Davis, Jan Bijvoet, Nilbio Torres…and more Writers:     Ciro Guerra, Theodor Koch-Grunberg… and more -Synopsis- In early 20th Century South American rainforests; an American biologist enlists the help of an old indigenous isolated Amazonian shaman, to recreate a journey he took 40 years earlier with […]