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Oppenheimer (2023)

Posted by Gui on July 28, 2023

Review 180min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, War Director:     Christopher Nolan Cast:         Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr.…and more Writers:     Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -Synopsis- An American physicist at the height of World War II reluctantly becomes the destroyer of worlds as his relentless drive to beat the Nazis in the development […]

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 […]

First Man (2018)

Posted by Gui on October 26, 2018

Review 141min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Damien Chazelle Cast:       Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke…and more Writers:   Josh Singer and James R. Hansen -Synopsis- In the middle of the cold war and at the height of the space race, an unassuming pilot and NASA astronaut from Ohio is chosen to command what would become the […]

Hidden Figures (2017)

Posted by Gui on February 19, 2017

Review 127min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama Director:   Theodore Melfi Cast:        Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe…and more Writers:    Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi and Margot Lee Shetterly -Synopsis- A biographical drama centred around the important but overlooked role of African-American women in the early US space program during the 1960s, including the work and struggles of […]

Bridge of Spies (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on November 22, 2015

Review 141min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama Director:   Steven Spielberg Cast:        Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Scott Shepherd…and more Writers:    Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen -Synopsis- Tom Hanks stars as American lawyer James B. Donovan, who in the late 1950s was tasked with defending a Soviet spy in a US court only to then negotiate an exchange […]

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on August 14, 2015

Review 116min Genre:    Action, Adventure, Comedy Director: Guy Ritchie Cast:      Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander…and more Writers:  Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram, Jeff Kleeman… and more Big-screen adaptation of the classic 60’s TV show about an American CIA agent and a Soviet KGB agent forced into cooperating to stop a dangerous and shadowy criminal organization […]

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 […]