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The White Crow (2019) (Russian & English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 21, 2019

Review 127min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Ralph Fiennes Cast:       Oleg Ivenko, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ralph Fiennes…and more Writers:   David Hare and Julie Kavanagh… and more -Synopsis- A chronicle of the makings of Siberian ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev and the difficult non-conformist personality which forged a standout artist—from his youth in Russia through to his time performing […]

Red Sparrow (2018)

Posted by Gui on March 2, 2018

Review 140min Genre:       Mystery, Thriller Director:    Francis Lawrence Cast:         Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts… Writers:     Justin Haythe and Jason Matthews -Synopsis- When a young Russian lady is recruited for ‘Sparrow School’—a rigorous intelligence program with a focus on seduction and manipulation—she becomes caught between multiple international spying efforts when her mission to expose a […]

Loveless (2017) (Russian Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on October 10, 2017

Review 127min Genre:       Drama Director:    Andrey Zvyagintsev Cast:         Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Aleksey Fateev…and more Writers:     Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin -Synopsis- A feuding self-centred couple—intent on moving on with their individual lives after their imminent divorce—are confronted by their own loveless upbringing and the neglectful treatment of their young son after he mysteriously disappears, […]

Zoology (Russian Language) (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 8, 2016

83min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:    Ivan I. Tverdovskiy Cast:         Natalya Pavlenkova, Dmitriy Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko…more Writer:      Ivan I. Tverdovskiy -Synopsis- When Natasha randomly and bizarrely grows a considerable tail; the life of this lonely demure Russian zookeeper begins to drastically change as a newfound sense of freedom and a second adolescence beckons in this darkly […]

Snowden Trailer #1

Posted by Gui on April 27, 2016

Oliver Stone directs and Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as former CIA and NSA employee Edward Snowden; seen as a hero by some and a traitor by others, wanted by the US government for leaking thousands of classified documents to the media, which exposed the extent of surveillance that the US and its allies conduct globally and […]

Hardcore Henry (2016)

Posted by Gui on April 10, 2016

Review 96min Genre:      Action, Sci-fi Director:   Ilya Naishuller Cast:        Sharlto Copley, Haley Bennett, Danila Kozlovsky…and more Writers:    Ilya Naishuller, Will Stewart -Synopsis- Brazen and violent video game style first-person action film placing the audience in the role of “Henry”; a resurrected cyborg operative with memory loss who’s on a mission to rescue his wife from […]

Triple 9 (2016) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on February 20, 2016

Review 115min Genre:       Crime, Action, Thriller Director:    John Hillcoat Cast:         Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet…and more Writer:      Matt Cook -Synopsis- A skilled armed robbery crew of ex-mercenaries and dirty cops is blackmailed by a brutal Russian crime boss into pulling a dangerous heist, but as a plan to kill a cop to create a […]

Child 44 (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on April 18, 2015

Review 137min Genre:      Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:   Daniel Espinosa Cast:        Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman…and more Writers:    Richard Price, Tom Rob Smith Former war hero and MGB (Soviet secret police) agent Leo Demidov is a top operator in Stalin’s Soviet internal security service but when he is betrayed by the system he worked to […]

Black Sea (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on December 5, 2014

115min Genre:    Action, Drama, Thriller Director: Kevin Macdonald Cast:      Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn …and more Writers:  Dennis Kelly Jude Law stars as a down-on-his-luck Scottish submarine captain forced to take a job searching the bottom of the Black Sea to find a Nazi U-Boat filled with gold, tensions rise between his multinational crew […]