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Little Women (2019)

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 […]

Animals (2019)

Posted by Gui on August 3, 2019

Review 109min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:    Sophie Hyde Cast:         Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee…and more Writers:     Emma Jane Unsworth -Synopsis- When one of them becomes engaged to a responsible musician, the lives of two hard-drinking, fast-living thirty-something Dubliners are inevitably changed, as the limits of their co-dependent friendship are tested and their lifestyle choices […]

Captain Marvel (2019)

Posted by Gui on March 10, 2019

Review 124min Genre:     Comic-book, Action, Adventure, Fantasy Director:  Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Cast:       Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law…and more Writers:   Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Geneva Robertson-Dworet…more -Synopsis- When a shapeshifting alien menace leads her to Earth in the mid 1990s, a powerful ‘Kree’ warrior joins forces with a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to neutralise […]

Annihilation (2018)

Posted by Gui on March 13, 2018

Review 115min Genre:       Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller Director:    Alex Garland Cast:         Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac…and more Writers:     Alex Garland and Jeff VanderMeer -Synopsis- A team of female scientists embarks on a dangerous mission to unlock the secrets of a mysterious and isolated wilderness where multiple previous expeditions have disappeared—but what they […]

Battle of the Sexes (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on November 20, 2017

Review 121min Genre:     Fact-based, Comedy, Drama, Sport Director:  Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Cast:       Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough…and more Writer:    Simon Beaufoy -Synopsis- A light-hearted story of the struggle for equal rights in professional tennis, set against the backdrop of the media circus surrounding the exhibition match between legendary women’s world number one […]

The Limehouse Golem (2017)

Posted by Gui on September 1, 2017

Review 109min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:    Juan Carlos Medina Cast:         Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth…and more Writers:     Peter Ackroyd & Jane Goldman -Synopsis- Before ‘Jack the Ripper’ stalked the seedy streets of London, another brutal and mysterious spectre plied its sinister trade in the East end— the infamous and mythical ‘Limehouse Golem’—preying on […]

Wonder Woman (2017)

Posted by Gui on June 2, 2017

Review 141min Genre:      Comic-book, Action, Adventure, Fantasy Director:   Patty Jenkins Cast:        Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen… and more Writers:    Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, Jason Fuchs… and more -Synopsis- Gal Gadot further sets the ‘DC Extended Universe’ in motion with the origin story of ‘Diana Prince’; an Amazonian warrior princess and demigoddess, whose encounter with […]

Certain Women (2016)

Posted by Gui on March 3, 2017

Review 107min Genre:      Drama Director:   Kelly Reichardt Cast:        Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone…and more Writers:    Kelly Reichardt and Maile Meloy -Synopsis- Writer/director Kelly Reichardt’s nuanced character study set in contemporary small-town Montana, where the lives of three very different women intersect as they struggle with life’s trials and try to make their way in […]

Ghostbusters (2016)

Posted by Gui on July 11, 2016

Review 116min Genre:     Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-fi Director:  Paul Feig Cast:       Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Chris Hemsworth…and more Writers:   Paul Feig, Katie Dippold and Ivan Reitman -Synopsis- Over 30 years after the boys save New York city, the girls get their shot in this lavish but risky reboot of a comedy classic; which sees writer/director […]

Grandma (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on December 11, 2015

Review 79min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Paul Weitz Cast:        Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden…and more Writer:     Paul Weitz -Synopsis- When her newly pregnant teenage granddaughter turns up on her doorstep asking for help, a no-nonsense lesbian grandma sets out on a journey to help her grandchild with an abortion, while both teaching and […]

Suffragette (2015)- BFI London Film Festival 2015

Posted by Gui on October 11, 2015

Review 106min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Sarah Gavron Cast:       Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter…more Writer:    Abi Morgan Carey Mulligan stars as a young working-class wife and mother in early 20th century Britain whose life is thrown into turmoil when she gets caught up in the Suffragette movement for women’s rights. As her commitment […]

Girlhood (2014) (French Language)

Posted by Gui on May 9, 2015

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 […]