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 […]

Review 126min Genre:       Crime, Drama Director:    Nadine Labaki Cast:         Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Kawsar Al Haddad…more Writers:     Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily and Michelle Keserwany -Synopsis- Streetwise twelve-year-old ‘Zain’ lives a tough life on the streets of the Lebanese capital, estranged from his family and drawn to Ethiopian refugee ‘Rahil’ and her baby son while […]

Review 154min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Mike Leigh Cast:       Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell…and more Writer:    Mike Leigh -Synopsis- In early 19th century England at the end of the Napoleonic wars, the hungry and poor of Manchester gather to protest and demand universal suffrage, only to be stormed by the overzealous military and suffer […]

Review 151min Genre:        Comedy, Drama Director:     Ruben Östlund Cast:          Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Christopher Læssø…and more Writer:       Ruben Östlund -Synopsis- Set in modern day Sweden and the self-important world of modern art; a successful and liberal museum curator has his sensibilities and preconceptions challenged by an unexpected incident and his latest exhibition, unleashing confronting […]

Review 111min Genre:       Drama Director:    Sean Baker Cast:         Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe…and more Writers:     Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch -Synopsis- A gritty yet comical tale of brazen behaviour and childlike innocence, set the in the seedy live-in motels in the shadow of the Disney Empire and seen through the eyes of an adorably […]

Review 146min Genre:     Drama Director:  Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast:       Sonia Braga, Humberto Carrão, Zoraide Coleto…and more Writer:    Kleber Mendonça Filho -Synopsis- Sonia Braga stars as a well-to-do widower and retiree in northeastern Brazil, whose quiet later years are turned into a pitch battle against a company intent on demolishing and re-developing a building she […]

129min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama Director:   Garth Davis Cast:        Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman…and more Writers:    Saroo Brierley, Larry Buttrose, Luke Davies -Synopsis- Biographical drama based on the true story of Saroo Brierley; a poor 5-year-old Indian boy who was separated from his family and became one of India’s many street children a thousand miles […]

110min Genre:      Crime, Drama Director:   Brillante Mendoza Cast:        Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Baron Geisler…and more Writer:     Troy Espiritu -Synopsis- From her humble convenience store in the slums of Manila, tough family matriarch “Ma’ Rosa” sells everything from household goods to food… and of course plenty of methamphetamine or “ice”. But when she’s rumbled by corrupt […]