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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 12, 2023

Review 206min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama, Romance Director:     Martin Scorsese Cast:         Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro…and more Writers:     Martin Scorsese, Eric Roth and David Grann -Synopsis- In 1920s Oklahoma a series of unexplained murders and exploitation of the oil-rich Osage Nation sparks an FBI investigation which uncovers a sobering conspiracy, triggering the breakdown […]

Richard Jewell (2019)

Posted by Gui on February 2, 2020

Review 131min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:     Clint Eastwood Cast:         Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde…and more Writers:     Billy Ray, Marie Brenner, Kent Alexander… and more -Synopsis- During the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, a humble Georgia security guard becomes an instant hero when he saves scores of people from a pipe bomb planted […]

The Highwaymen (2019)

Posted by Gui on March 28, 2019

Review 132min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    John Lee Hancock Cast:         Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates…and more Writer:      John Fusco -Synopsis- When the resources of the Texas governor’s office, state law enforcement and the FBI aren’t enough to ensnare a band of brutal outlaws and perverse folk heroes in 1930s depression era USA, the […]

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Posted by Gui on February 1, 2019

Review 106min Genre:       Fact-based, Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:    Marielle Heller Cast:         Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin…and more Writers:     Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty -Synopsis- When her literary career begins to wane and her work no longer pays the bills, a prickly New York writer forms an alliance and unlikely friendship with a British […]

American Animals (2018)

Posted by Gui on September 8, 2018

Review 116min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Bart Layton Cast:         Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Jared Abrahamson…and more Writer:      Bart Layton -Synopsis- Bored with life and on the road to nowhere, four Kentucky college kids hatch a plan to make their mark on the world—an audacious and unlikely heist at a library which would become one […]

Wind River (2017)

Posted by Gui on September 10, 2017

Review 107min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:    Taylor Sheridan Cast:         Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene…and more Writer:      Taylor Sheridan -Synopsis- A young FBI agent joins forces with a veteran local wildlife agent in a frozen and remote Wyoming Native American reservation to solve the mystery of a local girl’s murder, a case which will […]

American Made (2017)

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 […]

Patriots Day (2017)

Posted by Gui on February 24, 2017

Review 133min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, Thriller Director:    Peter Berg Cast:         Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, John Goodman…more Writers:     Peter Berg, Matt Cook and Joshua Zetumer -Synopsis- Mark Wahlberg stars in a dramatisation of the 2013 terrorist attacks on the Boston marathon which killed three people and injured hundreds, and the subsequent state-wide manhunt to find the […]

Imperium (2016)

Posted by Gui on September 21, 2016

Review 109min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Daniel Ragussis Cast:         Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts…and more Writers:     Michael German and Daniel Ragussis -Synopsis- Based on real events and set in the modern day Washington DC area; Daniel Radcliffe stars as a young FBI agent gone deep undercover as a skinhead to infiltrate a dangerous […]

The Infiltrator (2016)

Posted by Gui on September 17, 2016

Review 127min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Brad Furman Cast:         Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger…and more Writers:     Robert Mazur and Ellen Sue Brown -Synopsis- Crime drama set around Miami during the 1980s Reagan “War-on-Drugs” and based on a true story, starring Bryan Cranston as a U.S. government agent who goes undercover to break Colombian […]

Imperium Trailer #1

Posted by Gui on July 6, 2016

Based on real events; Daniel Radcliffe stars as a young FBI agent gone deep undercover as a skinhead to infiltrate a dangerous white supremacist group and stop a domestic terrorism attack in America, but his life is soon put in danger as the lines are blurred between his identity and reality in this tense thriller. […]

Midnight Special (2016)

Posted by Gui on April 9, 2016

Review 112min Genre:      Sci-fi, Drama, Mystery Director:   Jeff Nichols Cast:        Jaeden Lieberher, Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton…and more Writer:     Jeff Nichols -Synopsis- In a desperate attempt to protect his son who possesses mysterious supernatural powers; a man goes on the run from religious zealots and government forces with the help of his companions, on a mission […]

Black Mass (2015)- BFI London Film Festival 2015

Posted by Gui on October 14, 2015

Review 122min Genre:    Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Scott Cooper Cast:      Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch…more Writers:  Mark Mallouk, Jez Butterworth , Dick Lehr… and more Johnny Depp stars as notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, whose position as an FBI informant and brother of a Massachusetts state senator gave him virtual carte blanche to […]

Sicario (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on September 25, 2015

Review 121min Genre:    Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast:      Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin…and more Writer:   Taylor Sheridan Emily Blunt stars as an ambitious FBI agent whose moral compass is challenged by a complex US government operation to fight the escalating so-called “war on drugs”, as legal and moral lines are […]