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 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 […]
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 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 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 January 25, 2017
Review 88min Genre: Drama, Sci-fi Director: Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel Cast: Lorenzo Allchurch, Agyness Deyn, Jonathan Pryce …and more Writers: György Dragomán, Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel -Synopsis- Young ‘Djata’ lives a normal idyllic life in a totalitarian state oblivious to the brutal realities around him, but when his father is mysteriously abducted by […]
Posted by Gui on November 17, 2016
Review 110min Genre: Drama, Romance Director: James Schamus Cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts…and more Writer: Philip Roth and James Schamus -Synopsis- An American 1950s period drama adaptation of the Philip Roth novel set during the Korean War; following a Jewish teenager and his existential struggles with the world around him and the consequences […]
Posted by Gui on August 17, 2016
Review 116min Genre: Drama Director: Brady Corbet Cast: Robert Pattinson, Liam Cunningham, Bérénice Bejo…and more Writers: Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold -Synopsis- In the backdrop of war-torn rural France at the end of the First World War; an American diplomat negotiating the terms of German surrender relocates to a French village with his European wife and […]
Posted by Gui on February 4, 2016
Review 124min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Jay Roach Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren…and more Writers: John McNamara, Bruce Cook Bryan Cranston stars as Dalton Trumbo, legendary “golden age” Hollywood screenwriter who among many others was persecuted and marginalised by the US government for his political beliefs at the height of anti-communist Cold War […]
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 […]