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 […]

Review 147min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama, Music Director:   F. Gary Gray Cast:        O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Paul Giamatti…and more Writers:    Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff , Alan Wenkus … and more Gritty ghetto biopic drama chronicling the rise of rap supergroup NWA on the dangerous streets of Compton Los Angeles, from authority-resistant local gangster-rap heroes to […]

Review 90min Genre:      Documentary, Drama, Fact-based Director:   Crystal Moselle Cast:        Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo…more Country:   USA Documentary recounting the remarkable story of the Angulo brothers, a large group of teenage siblings who use their obsession with movies to connect to the outside world after being confined to a small New York apartment for […]

In an ongoing effort to help aspiring filmmakers and promote independent films, particularly those struggling with distribution and releases, we periodically feature films in our “Indie Spotlight” series for your consideration. A Dozen Summers (2015) (English Language) 82min (UK) Genre:     Comedy, Drama, Family Director:  Kenton Hall Cast:       Scarlet Hall, Hero Hall, Kenton Hall…and more Writer:    […]

Review 108min Genre:     Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:  Joel Edgerton Cast:       Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall…and more Writer:    Joel Edgerton Simon’s idyllic life with his beautiful wife in their new home is thrown into turmoil when a bizarre old high-school acquaintance enters his life bearing mysterious gifts that reveal a terrible secret, a psychological […]

Review 97min Genre:     Drama Director:  David Gordon Green Cast:       Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Chris Messina…and more Writer:    Paul Logan The great Al Pacino stars as a lonely aging locksmith who never recovered from the loss of his true love, as he wallows in resentment and struggles to cope with life’s regrets and the people around […]

Review 123min Genre:    Drama, Action, Sport Director: Antoine Fuqua Cast:      Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker…and more Writer:    Kurt Sutter Jake Gyllenhaal undergoes another drastic physical transformation to star as undisputed light-heavyweight champion “Billy Hope”, a fierce and unpredictable competitor in and out of the ring, but when tragedy strikes and his life spirals out […]

Review 99min Genre:    Fact-based, Drama, Mystery Director: Rupert Goold Cast:      Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones…and more Writers:  Rupert Goold, David Kajganich & Michael Finkel Based on the memoirs of New York Times journalist Michael Finkel, ‘True Story’ tells the real tale of how FBI Most Wanted murderer Christian Longo assumed Finkel’s name whilst laying-low […]

Review 84min Genre:   Western, Drama Director: John Maclean Cast:      Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn…more Writer:   John Maclean A young Scottish lad crosses the Ocean and the wild unforgiving plains of 19th Century America to find his true love who was forced to flee their homeland, as he tries to avoid a selection of cutthroats […]

Review 104min Genre:    Drama, Mystery Director: Bill Condon Cast:      Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker…and more Writers:  Mitch Cullin , Jeffrey Hatcher & Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Ian McKellen stars as an elderly Sherlock Holmes now retreated to the English countryside to contemplate his life but as his mind starts to fail him the hazy […]

In an ongoing effort to help aspiring filmmakers and promote independent films, particularly those struggling with distribution and releases, we periodically feature films in our “Indie Spotlight” series for your consideration.   ‘Little Pieces’ (2014) (English Language) 112min Genre:     Drama Directors: Adam Nelson Cast:       Finnian Nainby-Luxmore, Matt Jones, Isabelle Glinn …and more Writer:    Adam Nelson Country:  UK […]

Review 97min Genre:    Drama Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Cast:      Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki…and more Writers : Abderrahmane Sissako & Kessen Tall On the West-African sands and plains of Mali, a small family of cattle-herders and an entire town struggle to cope with the Islamic fundamentalists that have brought so-called “Jihad” to their doorstep, as […]

Review 114min Genre:    Action, Drama Director: Brad Peyton Cast:      Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario…and more Writers : Carlton Cuse, Andre Fabrizio & Jeremy Passmore Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars as a helicopter-rescue pilot on a perilous journey across California to rescue his stranded daughter after the San Andreas fault conspires with tectonic plates to […]

Review 106min Genre:    Comedy, Drama Director: Dan Fogelman Cast:      Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Bobby Cannavale…and more Writer:   Dan Fogelman Danny Collins is a pop-star in the twilight of his career living comfortably and excessively on past glories whose life is changed by a long lost letter from John Lennon, the message is strong enough to […]

Review 101min Genre:    Horror, Drama, Romance Director: Ana Lily Amirpour Cast:      Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò …and more Writer:   Ana Lily Amirpour On the dark and desolate streets of the “Iranian” town of “Bad City”, young Arash is stuck in a life surrounded by loneliness and sin when he forms an unlikely relationship with […]

Review 104min Genre:    Horror, Mystery, Drama Director: Alejandro Amenábar Cast:      Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann …and more Writer:   Alejandro Amenábar Eerie period mystery/horror set at the end of World War II in the British Channel Islands starring Nicole Kidman as a mother of two children with a rare condition that makes them allergic to […]

Review 113min Genre:    Drama Director: Céline Sciamma Cast:      Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Cyril Mendy…and more Writer:   Céline Sciamma With a bleak future ahead a teenage African immigrant girl living in the suburban “Ghettos” outside of Paris finds solace and belonging within a group of tough-talking teenagers, life seems better for “Vic” in her new gang […]

Review 103min Genre:    Fact-based, Drama Director: Jon Stewart Cast:      Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Shohreh Aghdashloo…and more Writers:  Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari & Aimee Molloy Drama based on the memoirs of Iranian “Newsweek” journalist Maziar Bahari who was imprisoned and abused by Iranian authorities on charges of espionage following the highly disputed Iranian presidential elections […]

Review 119min Genre:    Drama, Romance Director: Thomas Vinterberg Cast:      Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen…more Writers : Thomas Hardy, David Nicholls The latest big-screen adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy novel set in 19th century rural England, Carey Mulligan stars as Bathsheba Everdene, a fiercely independent farm-running young heiress who is pursued by three very […]

Review 130min Genre:      Drama, Crime, Romance Director:   Jeff Nichols Cast:        Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Reese Witherspoon Writer:     Jeff Nichols In rural Arkansas on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river, a couple of teenage country boys stumble upon “Mud”, a mysterious stranger on the run from dangerous men and the law, as an unlikely bond […]

Review 137min Genre:      Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:   Daniel Espinosa Cast:        Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman…and more Writers:    Richard Price, Tom Rob Smith Former war hero and MGB (Soviet secret police) agent Leo Demidov is a top operator in Stalin’s Soviet internal security service but when he is betrayed by the system he worked to […]

Review 92min Genre:      Western, Drama, Action Director:   Kristian Levring Cast:        Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan…and more Writers:    Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen A Danish immigrant in the late 19th century American west finds himself in the crosshairs of a ruthless outlaw when he kills the gang leader’s brother for murdering his wife and […]

Review 95min Genre:      Drama, Fantasy Director:   Ryan Gosling Cast:        Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan…more Writer:     Ryan Gosling In a desolate town ravaged by the effects of a financial crisis, a single mother’s struggles see her descend into a depraved underworld while her teenage son’s quest to escape their living nightmare leads him to […]

Review 102min Genre:      War, Drama, Thriller Director:   Andrew Niccol Cast:        Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Bruce Greenwood…and more Writer:     Andrew Niccol Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Boyhood) stars as Major Egan, a stern and decorated US Air Force pilot turned “drone” operator who struggles with responsibilities of conducting deadly warfare behind a computer screen, from the safety […]

Review 120min Genre:     Drama Director:  Ruben Östlund Cast:       Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Kristofer Hivju…more Writer:    Ruben Östlund A young handsome middle-class Swedish family’s ski vacation at a posh hotel in the French Alps is thrown into disarray as they face an avalanche, when the dust clears and despite no physical trauma the dad’s reaction […]

Review 95min Genre:      Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:   Daniel Alfredson Cast:        Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Anthony Hopkins…and more Writers:    William Brookfield, Peter R. de Vries Big-screen dramatization of the real 1983 kidnapping of Dutch CEO and heir to the Heineken beer empire Freddy Heineken, a well planned Amsterdam operation which resulted in the largest ever private […]

Review 97min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Noah Baumbach Cast:        Ben Stiller, Adam Driver, Naomi Watts…and more Writer:     Noah Baumbach Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as a middle-aged New York couple whose predictable and mundane life is turned upside down when they meet a charming young couple who make them question the personal and professional […]

Review 111min Genre:      Drama, War Director:   Russell Crowe Cast:        Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney …and more Writer:     Andrew Knight, Andrew Anastasios A World War I period drama set in 1919 after the brutal events of the Gallipoli Campaign, Russell Crowe makes his directorial debut and stars as an Australian farmer who fulfils a promise […]

Review 102min Genre:    Drama, Mystery, Comedy Director: John Michael McDonagh Cast:      Brendan Gleeson, Kelly Reilly, Chris O’Dowd …and more Writer:   John Michael McDonagh The life of a good small-town Catholic priest on the rural coast of Ireland is thrown into turmoil when his life is threatened anonymously during confession, as the day of his impending […]

Review 111min Genre:    Drama, Comedy, Romance Director: Morgan Matthews Cast:      Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall…and more Writer :  James Graham A mildly autistic and socially inept young math genius travels to Taiwan to try and secure a place in the British “Mathematics Olympics” team and in the process expand the narrow world he has […]

Review 107min Genre:     Romance, Drama, War Director:  Saul Dibb Cast:       Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts…and many more Writers:   Matt Charman, Saul Dibb, Irène Némirovsky Set in the early days of the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, Michelle Williams stars as a young French villager caught between her burgeoning feelings towards a very different sort of […]

Review 120min Genre:    Sci-fi, Drama, Action Director: Neill Blomkamp Cast:      Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel…and more Writers:  Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell ‘District 9′ director Neil Blomkamp turns his hand to “Robot” Sci-fi and tackles the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sub-genre with the story of Chappie, a former South African police droid who ends up […]

Review 112min Genre:    Fact-based, Drama Director: Michael Cuesta Cast:      Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Oliver Platt…and more Writers:  Peter Landesman, Gary Webb & Nick Schou Jeremy Renner stars in a mid-90s political drama based on the true story California investigative reporter Gary Webb’s shocking exposé of the crack-cocaine trade on the streets of America, after exposing […]

Review 101min Genre:      Drama Directors:  Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland Cast:        Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, , Alec Baldwin…and more Writers :   Lisa Genova , Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning performance as a middle-aged accomplished professor of linguistics and family matriarch who is unexpectedly diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, as her family struggles to […]

Review 118min Genre:    Drama Director: Kornél Mundruczó Cast:      Zsófia Psotta, Body, Sándor Zsótér…and more Writers:  Kornél Mundruczó, Viktória Petrányi & Kata Wéber A young Hungarian girl ‘Lili’ and her loyal dog ‘Hagen’ are forced apart when she is sent to stay with her estranged father, their paths diverge with Lili struggling to reconcile with her […]

Review 104min Genre:    Crime, Drama, Comedy, Action Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Cast:      Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro…and more Writers:  Glenn Ficarra & John Requa A slick veteran con-man recruits a beautiful and talented young apprentice on his latest grandiose scam, his life soon becomes complicated when heart gets in the way of his […]

Review 133min Genre:    Action, Mystery, Drama, Crime Director: Michael Mann Cast:      Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Leehom Wang…and more Writer:   Morgan Davis Foehl Following a series of devastating international cyber-attacks, US and Chinese authorities are forced together to track down the perpetrators by turning to a convicted and imprisoned American hacker who originally designed the code […]

Review 102min Genre:    Drama Director: Daniel Barnz Cast:      Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Sam Worthington…and more Writer:   Patrick Tobin Jennifer Aniston stars as a callous and cynical woman struggling with the devastating physical and emotional effects of a horrific accident, an encounter at a support group sparks a fascination with a woman who commits suicide and […]

Review & Recommendation 102min Genre:     Drama Director:  Darren Aronofsky Cast:       Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly…and more Writers:   Darren Aronofsky & Hubert Selby Jr. The life of a humble young New Yorker, his friends and mother are thrown into chaos by drug-abuse as they continue down an increasingly dark path in this gritty drama from […]

Review 128min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Ava DuVernay Cast:       David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson…and more Writer :   Paul Webb David Oyelowo stars as Martin Luther King Jr. in a particular period of the American Civil Rights movement where a socio-political struggle for equal voting rights in the south led to the legendary Alabama march, […]

114min Genre:     Action, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller Director:  Stephen Daldry Cast:       Rickson Tevez, Rooney Mara, Wagner Moura…and more Writers:   Richard Curtis, Felipe Braga & Andy Mulligan Set in the streets and slums of modern day Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), three poor teenagers discover something in the city dump which places them in the middle of […]

148min Genre:   Crime, Comedy, Mystery, Drama Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast:      Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston…and more Writers:  Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon…and more Joaquin Phoenix stars as a drug-addicted detective on the sleazy streets of 1970′s L.A. investigating the disappearance of his former girlfriend and her millionaire boyfriend, a genre-splitting dark comedy mystery […]

125min Genre:    Crime, Drama Director:  J.C. Chandor Cast:       Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo…and more Writer:    J.C. Chandor Set in the most statistically dangerous year in New York City history in 1981, Oscar Isaac stars as an immigrant who having achieved his piece of the “American Dream” now struggles to protect it and […]

108min Genre:      Sci-fi, Drama, Thriller Director:   Alex Garland Cast:        Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander…and more Writer :     Alex Garland A mysterious tech-company mogul entices one of his young programmer employees to evaluate a revolutionary artificial intelligence experiment in the form of a beautiful young female machine, the results are disturbing if not unexpected. Award-winning […]