Posted by Gui on November 29, 2024
Review 98min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror Director: Marielle Heller Cast: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Emmett Snowden…and more Writers: Marielle Heller and Rachel Yoder -Synopsis- In present day American suburbia, a stay-at-home mom struggles with the pressures of parenthood and its effect on her life and career, only to unexpectedly connect with a more primal instinct […]
Posted by Gui on October 7, 2024
Review 90min Genre: Comedy, Drama Director: Jesse Eisenberg Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey…and more Writers: Jesse Eisenberg -Synopsis- Two estranged and very different American cousins come together on a trip to Poland to honour their grandmother’s origins and re-connect with their Jewish roots, only to get on each other’s last nerve and […]
Posted by Gui on December 31, 2023
Review 105min Genre: Fact-Based, Drama Director: Jonathan Glazer Cast: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Freya Kreutzkam…and more Writers: Jonathan Glazer and Martin Amis -Synopsis- During War War II in the house and garden next to Auschwitz, the camp commandant tries to build an idyllic family life in the shadow of the horror he oversees, only to […]
Posted by Gui on December 6, 2023
Review 105min Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Director: Andrew Haigh Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy…and more Writers: Andrew Haigh and Taichi Yamada -Synopsis- A lonely gay screenwriter begins to develop a bond with an enigmatic neighbour in London while some visits back to his childhood home spark an unexpected reunion with his long-deceased parents, […]
Posted by Gui on November 10, 2023
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 […]
Posted by Gui on October 6, 2023
Review 126min Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Cast: Soya Kurokawa, Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama…and more Writers: Yûji Sakamoto -Synopsis- A young Japanese boy’s single mother takes matters into her own hands when his behaviour takes a turn towards the odd and disturbing and she suspects his school life to be the cause, as she […]
Posted by Gui on January 27, 2023
Review 151min Genre: Drama Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano…and more Writers: Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner -Synopsis- In post war suburban America, a boy with big dreams is beguiled by the magic of the pictures and nurtured by his free-spirited mother to become a storyteller himself, as he […]
Posted by Gui on October 14, 2022
Review 136min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller Director: Noah Baumbach Cast: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy…and more Writers: Noah Baumbach and Don DeLillo -Synopsis- A quirky academic and his anxious wife struggle to lead their paranoid young family through the turmoil of everyday life in suburban 1980s America, only to be forced onto a […]
Posted by Gui on November 28, 2021
Review 157min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino…and more Writers: Becky Johnston, Roberto Bentivegna and Sara Gay Forden -Synopsis- Built on generations of wealth, power, and glamour, the Italian fashion powerhouse is steadily plunged into turmoil and scandal when one of their heirs marries an ambitious […]
Posted by Gui on September 1, 2021
Review 141min Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance Director: Leos Carax Cast: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg…and more Writers: Ron Mael and Russell Mael -Synopsis- A mysterious musical chronicle of the relationship between an intense and troubled stand-up comedian and a celebrated opera singer, whose glamorous lives are turned upside down by the arrival of […]
Posted by Gui on June 9, 2021
Review 97min Genre: Drama Director: Florian Zeller Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell…and more Writers: Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton -Synopsis- When an elderly British man refuses to let his cognitive condition control his life and denies help from his worried daughter, his deteriorating mind begins to cast doubt over his loved ones as […]
Posted by Gui on March 28, 2021
Review 115min Genre: Drama Director: Lee Isaac Chung Cast: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim…and more Writers: Lee Isaac Chung -Synopsis- In 1980s rural Arkansas, a young Korean immigrant family toils to make a living in their isolated farmstead and carve out their place in a strange land, while the young son and daughter […]
Posted by Gui on October 25, 2020
Review 89min Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller Director: Natalie Erika James Cast: Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote…and more Writers: Natalie Erika James and Christian White -Synopsis- An Aussie grandmother’s inexplicable disappearance becomes even more bizarre when she returns a changed figure, plunging her daughter and granddaughter into despair when they lose touch with a matriarch […]
Posted by Gui on October 18, 2020
Review 104min Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama Director: Miranda July Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins…and more Writers: Miranda July -Synopsis- The curious life of scrounging a living on the streets of Los Angeles is thrown into turmoil for a family of con artists and petty thieves when a stranger enters the […]
Posted by Gui on October 14, 2020
Review 90min Genre: Drama, Music Director: Bassam Tariq Cast: Riz Ahmed, Alyy Khan, Anjana Vasan…and more Writers: Riz Ahmed and Bassam Tariq -Synopsis- On the brink of music superstardom and his first world tour, a British-Pakistani rapper is thwarted by an illness which threatens to derail his dreams and define his future, as his body […]
Posted by Gui on August 21, 2020
Review 118min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Director: Shannon Murphy Cast: Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Ben Mendelsohn…and more Writers: Rita Kalnejais -Synopsis- The quiet but complex lives of a suburban Australian couple are thrown into turmoil when their cancer-stricken teenage daughter develops a relationship with a local petty criminal and addict, as cracks in the […]
Posted by Gui on June 26, 2020
Review 136min Genre: Comedy, Drama Director: Judd Apatow Cast: Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr…and more Writers: Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus -Synopsis- Still haunted by the childhood passing of his firefighter hero dad, a twentysomething Staten Islander with no direction and little motivation struggles with the transition into adulthood, living with his […]
Posted by Gui on February 6, 2020
Review 132min Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama Director: Bong Joon Ho Cast: Song Kang-ho, Jo Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik…and more Writers: Bong Joon Ho and Jin Won Han -Synopsis- Struggling on the margins of Korean society, a young man and his unemployed family find their fortunes changed when they infiltrate an all-too-trusting wealthy local family, only to […]
Posted by Gui on January 30, 2020
Review 135min Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama Director: Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie Cast: Adam Sandler, LaKeith Stanfield, Julia Fox…and more Writers: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie -Synopsis- When he smells a score that could solve all his financial woes, a wheeler-dealer New York jeweller takes a major gamble which ropes-in professional athletes, bookies, […]
Posted by Gui on December 27, 2019
Review 134min Genre: Drama, Romance Director: Greta Gerwig Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson…and more Writers: Greta Gerwig and Louisa May Alcott -Synopsis- In post civil war Massachusetts, a quartet of different but very close teenage sisters deal with the romantic and emotional growing pains of coming-of-age in their own disparate ways, balancing their […]
Posted by Gui on December 2, 2019
Review 136min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Director: Noah Baumbach Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Azhy Robertson…and more Writers: Noah Baumbach -Synopsis- When their personal relationship breaks down as they begin to grow apart, a stage actress returns to L.A. with her young son to restart a Hollywood career, while her estranged New York theatre director […]
Posted by Gui on November 7, 2019
Review 109min Genre: Drama Director: Julius Onah Cast: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer…and more Writers: Julius Onah and J.C. Lee -Synopsis- A model student and all-star athlete, Luce’s life as an African child refugee turned into an adoptive American teen is flipped upside down when his parents discover a clash […]
Posted by Gui on October 30, 2019
Review 130min Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery Director: Rian Johnson Cast: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas…and more Writers: Rian Johnson -Synopsis- When the wealthy author patriarch of a combative and dysfunctional American family unexpectedly dies at one of their gatherings, a police detective and a celebrated private investigator are sent to investigate, but […]
Posted by Gui on June 15, 2019
Review 90min Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller Director: David Yarovesky Cast: Jackson A. Dunn, Elizabeth Banks, David Denman…and more Writers: Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn -Synopsis- When a childless rural couple discover a crash-landed baby from another world on their land, it seems like a blessing from the heavens, but his personality and childhood soon reveals […]
Posted by Gui on April 26, 2019
Review 93min Genre: Comedy, Drama Director: Bo Burnham Cast: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Luke Prael…and more Writers: Bo Burnham -Synopsis- On the cusp of full teendom but struggling to get over the line, an outwardly shy and awkward solitary fourteen-year-old toils with the distinct 21st century struggles and timeless tribulations of early adolescence, as she […]
Posted by Gui on April 14, 2019
Review 100min Genre: Drama, Music Director: Tom Harper Cast: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo…and more Writer: Nicole Taylor -Synopsis- When a young and irrepressible but irresponsible Scottish single mother’s spirits fail to be dampened by a stint in prison, she soon gets back to pursuing an unlikely dream of becoming a Nashville country music […]
Posted by Gui on April 10, 2019
Review 85min Genre: Drama Director: Jonah Hill Cast: Sunny Suljic, Na-kel Smith, Lucas Hedges…and more Writer: Jonah Hill -Synopsis- It ain’t easy to figure out who you are or want to be at thirteen, but for L.A. teen ‘Stevie’ life is about to get eventful in his mid 90s summer, as he balances a troubled […]
Posted by Gui on April 4, 2019
Review 101min Genre: Horror, Thriller Director: Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer Cast: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, Jeté Laurence…and more Writers: Matt Greenberg, Jeff Buhler and Stephen King -Synopsis- When a young family moves into a house on the edge of a foreboding forest, their idyllic new life is thrown into turmoil by the discovery of […]
Posted by Gui on March 24, 2019
Review 116min Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller Director: Jordan Peele Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Evan Alex…and more Writer: Jordan Peele -Synopsis- A young family’s picturesque vacation at their beach house turns into a nightmare and struggle for survival with the mysterious arrival of some sinister and relentless doppelgängers, leaving the matriarch fighting to protect her […]
Posted by Gui on March 1, 2019
Review 106min Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery Director: Steven Knight Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jason Clarke…more Writer: Steven Knight -Synopsis- A fishing boat captain’s tranquil existence on a tropical island is shattered by the re-emergence of his ex-wife, whose plea for help and sinister plan to deal with her abusive new husband plunges him into […]
Posted by Gui on February 26, 2019
Review 108min Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director: Stephen Merchant Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Lowden, Dwayne Johnson…and more Writer: Stephen Merchant -Synopsis- A girl from a wrestling family in unassuming East England dreams of making it in the world of global wrestling entertainment, and has her dreams turned into a reality when the WWE rolls into […]
Posted by Gui on January 25, 2019
116min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest…and more Writers: Sam Dolnick and Nick Schenk -Synopsis- After falling on hard times and reeling from his failure as a father and husband, an elderly horticulturalist and US veteran becomes a drug mule for a notorious Mexican cartel, but struggles […]
Posted by Gui on December 21, 2018
Review 130min Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical Director: Rob Marshall Cast: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw…and more Writers: David Magee, Rob Marshall, P.L. Travers… and more -Synopsis- With young ‘Jane’ and ‘Michael Banks’ now grown and raising their own family in depression-era London, the world’s most iconic nanny returns to help the family in […]
Posted by Gui on December 12, 2018
Review 135min Genre: Drama Director: Alfonso Cuarón Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey…more Writer: Alfonso Cuarón -Synopsis- A black & white Spanish language character piece set in the social and political bustle of Mexico in the early 70s, following the tribulations of an upper middle-class family and their domestic servants, who prove […]
Posted by Gui on November 30, 2018
Review 130min Genre: Drama, Sport Director: Steven Caple Jr. Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Sylvester Stallone…more Writers: Cheo Hodari Coker, Sylvester Stallone, Juel Taylor… and more -Synopsis- With new responsibilities on the table and much to lose, new heavyweight champion ‘Adonis Creed’ is confronted by history and a daunting new challenge . . . […]
Posted by Gui on October 18, 2018
Review 120min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: Felix Van Groeningen Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney…and more Writers: Felix Van Groeningen, Luke Davies, David Sheff… and more -Synopsis- As his son sinks deeper into addiction and emotional limbo while becoming a ghost to his California family, a father struggles to understand who his baby boy […]
Posted by Gui on October 11, 2018
Review 104min Genre: Drama Director: Paul Dano Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal…and more Writers: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan and Richard Ford -Synopsis- Having just settled into life in picturesque suburban Montana of the early 1960s, a dignified teenager begins to suffer in silence as he watches his family fall apart when his dad […]
Posted by Gui on August 6, 2018
Review 97min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music Director: Brett Haley Cast: Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Toni Collette…and more Writers: Brett Haley and Marc Basch -Synopsis- In a bid to connect with his teenage daughter before she leaves for college, a quirky music-loving widower convinces his girl to finally give their two-piece experimental band a chance, in […]
Posted by Gui on July 2, 2018
Review 109min Genre: Drama Director: Debra Granik Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Dana Millican…and more Writers: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini and Peter Rock -Synopsis- Forced to abandon their idyllic wild existence in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, an emotionally scarred father and his thirteen year-old daughter struggle to adapt to the society around them, […]
Posted by Gui on June 12, 2018
Review 127min Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery Director: Ari Aster Cast: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Alex Wolff…and more Writer: Ari Aster -Synopsis- When her mysterious and domineering elderly mother dies, a woman and her family begin to have inexplicable and terrifying experiences as they uncover sinister secrets about their deceased matriarch—promising a bleak fate and threatening […]
Posted by Gui on April 23, 2018
Review 107min Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance Director: Michael Pearce Cast: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James…and more Writer: Michael Pearce -Synopsis- When a repressed young woman meets a mysterious stranger in an isolated island community, she becomes caught between duty towards her oppressive family and an infatuation with a man suspected of multiple murders […]
Posted by Gui on April 7, 2018
Review 92min Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: Cory Finley Cast: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin…and more Writer: Cory Finley -Synopsis- Two well-to-do suburban Connecticut teens rekindle a childhood friendship and bond over their challenging but opposing personalities and outsider characters, leading to a sinister plan to solve their family issues which quickly gets out of […]
Posted by Gui on April 6, 2018
Review 90min Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller Director: John Krasinski Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds…and more Writers: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski -Synopsis- In a world devastated by an unexplained catastrophe, a young family—stalked by menacing and mysterious creatures who hunt on sound alone—lives in complete silence and rural isolation, but their […]
Posted by Gui on March 6, 2018
Review 116min Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery Director: Todd Haynes Cast: Millicent Simmonds, Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore…and more Writer: Brian Selznick -Synopsis- The intersecting story of two American twelve-year-olds who are separated by geography and half a century but connected through shared experiences, only to be brought together by cosmic forces and a city-spanning adventure in […]