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Holy Spider (2022) (Persian Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 7, 2022

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 […]

Belfast (2021)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 23, 2021

Review 98min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Kenneth Branagh Cast:         Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan…and more Writers:     Kenneth Branagh -Synopsis- The political tumult, social and cultural change of late 1960’s Britain and Northern Ireland is seen through the eyes of a young boy and his working-class family, as the joy, pain and innocence of […]

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 […]

Silence (2017)

Posted by Gui on January 6, 2017

Review 161min Genre:       Drama Director:    Martin Scorsese Cast:         Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson…and more Writers:     Shûsaku Endô, Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese -Synopsis- When two 17th century Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan on mission to determine the fate of their fallen mentor and spread the faith, they encounter open hostility and face persecution […]

Layla M. (2016) (Dutch Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 27, 2016

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 […]

Brimstone (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 23, 2016

148min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western Director:    Martin Koolhoven Cast:         Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Carice van Houten…and more Writer:      Martin Koolhoven -Synopsis- Dakota Fanning stars in the 19th century American frontier tale of a young mute mother, whose life is thrown into turmoil by the appearance of a commanding and sinister reverend in her small […]

The Witch (2016) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 12, 2016

Review 93min Genre:       Horror, Drama, Mystery Director:    Robert Eggers Cast:         Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie…and more Writer:      Robert Eggers -Synopsis- In the search for a more pious existence, a family of 17th century puritanical English settlers leave their plantation for the isolation of rural New England, but dark forces in the woods will […]