Review 116min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:     Ali Abbasi Cast:         Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani…and more Writers:     Ali Abbasi and Afshin Kamran Bahrami -Synopsis- In the streets of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad, a dogged female journalist plunges into the dark underbelly of society to track down an elusive serial killer preying on […]

Review 120min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Romance Director:    Michael Showalter Cast:         Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter…and more Writers:     Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani -Synopsis- American comedic star and writer Kumail Nanjiani teams up with co-writer and wife Emily V. Gordon to bring their autobiographical comedy to the screen—the story of a Pakistani immigrant and […]

Review 125min Genre:      Drama, Mystery Director:   Asghar Farhadi Cast:        Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi…and more Writer:     Asghar Farhadi -Synopsis- Writer/director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past) recent Oscar-winning foreign language drama tells the story of the breakdown of a middle-class Iranian couple’s relationship after a mysterious and harrowing trauma, as they begin an amateur […]

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 […]

110min Genre:      Drama Director:   Mijke de Jong Cast:        Nora El Koussour, Ilias Addab…and more Writers:    Jan Eilander and Mijke de Jong -Synopsis- Living in modern-day Amsterdam, “Layla” is a smart and stubborn but angry and resentful Dutch-born Muslim teenager, whose devotion to Islam puts her on a path towards radicalisation; only for her ideals to […]

90min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:    Abe Forsythe Cast:         Lincoln Younes, Rahel Romahn, Alexander England…more Writer:      Abe Forsythe -Synopsis- In the aftermath of the 2005 race riots in the “Cronulla” suburb of Sydney; fuelled by fear and hatred, a misfit group of vengeful Lebanese-Australians are on a collision course with a motley crew of white working-class […]

Review 98min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Romance Director:    Tom Tykwer Cast:         Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury…and more Writers:     Tom Tykwer and Dave Eggers -Synopsis- A divorced American businessman in financial straits travels to Saudi Arabia in the hopes of selling his modern telecoms system to the King, but the cultural clash soon turns his business […]

Review 102min Genre:         War, Drama, Thriller Director:      Gavin Hood Cast:           Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman…and more Writer:        Guy Hibbert -Synopsis- Drone warfare thriller starring Dame Helen Mirren as a British military officer whose African mission to capture suspected terrorists turns into an assassination strike with dire consequences for the innocent, a modern-conflict drama […]

Review 88min USA/UAE Genre:    Documentary, Animation Director: Davis Guggenheim Cast:      Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai… -Synopsis- Director Davis Guggenheim’s chronicle of the life, so far, of Nobel Prize-winning Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, from being shot by the Taliban for suggesting girls should be educated to moving to Britain and becoming a global […]

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 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 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 […]