Posted by Gui on February 2, 2020
Review 131min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde…and more Writers: Billy Ray, Marie Brenner, Kent Alexander… and more -Synopsis- During the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, a humble Georgia security guard becomes an instant hero when he saves scores of people from a pipe bomb planted […]
Posted by Gui on May 3, 2019
Review 114min Genre: Drama, Music Director: Brady Corbet Cast: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Raffey Cassidy…and more Writers: Brady Corbet -Synopsis- Formed by tragedy and coming-of-age in extreme circumstances, a New York teenager’s unconventional rise to stardom sees her propelled to the ranks of pop superstar at the turn of this century, as she struggles to […]
Posted by Gui on January 23, 2019
111min Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director: Adam McKay Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell…and more Writer: Adam McKay -Synopsis- Respected by some, reviled by others, and feared by many, US political stalwart Dick Cheney rises through the ranks of the republican party, serving presidents and cleaning house in the private sector on his way […]
Posted by Gui on May 11, 2018
Review 107min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: José Padilha Cast: Daniel Brühl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan…and more Writer: Gregory Burke -Synopsis- In the summer of 1976, two Palestinian extremists and two German ones hijack a plane and take the passengers hostage, forcing it to land in Idi Amin’s Uganda in a bid to further their […]
Posted by Gui on December 1, 2017
Review 119min Genre: Fact-based, Drama Director: David Gordon Green Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson…more Writers: John Pollono, Jeff Bauman and Bret Witter -Synopsis- Caught up in the devastation of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, a young man struggles to physically and emotionally recover from his ordeal while becoming an unsuspecting symbol of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted by Gui on September 21, 2016
Review 109min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director: Daniel Ragussis Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts…and more Writers: Michael German and Daniel Ragussis -Synopsis- Based on real events and set in the modern day Washington DC area; Daniel Radcliffe stars as a young FBI agent gone deep undercover as a skinhead to infiltrate a dangerous […]
Posted by Gui on July 6, 2016
Based on real events; Daniel Radcliffe stars as a young FBI agent gone deep undercover as a skinhead to infiltrate a dangerous white supremacist group and stop a domestic terrorism attack in America, but his life is soon put in danger as the lines are blurred between his identity and reality in this tense thriller. […]
Posted by Gui on April 21, 2016
Review 92min Genre: Action, Thriller Director: James Watkins Cast: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Charlotte Le Bon…and more Writer: Andrew Baldwin An American pickpocket in Paris is on the run after being unwittingly implicated in a terrorist attack, hunted by a hard-nosed CIA super agent, together they form a unwilling alliance to unravel a conspiracy which […]
Posted by Gui on April 15, 2016
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 […]
Posted by Gui on February 24, 2016
Review 83min Genre: Action, Comedy Director: Louis Leterrier Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Penélope Cruz…and more Writers: Sacha Baron Cohen, Phil Johnston & Peter Baynham -Synopsis- An abandoned orphan turned British super spy is forced to join forces with his estranged, hapless, football hooligan older brother to stop a global terrorist plot in this […]
Posted by Gui on November 5, 2015
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 […]
Posted by Gui on September 2, 2015
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 […]
Posted by Gui on May 29, 2015
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 […]
Posted by Gui on May 8, 2015
Review 90min Genre: Action, Adventure Director: Jalmari Helander Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson…and more Writers: Jalmari Helander The president of the United States of America is stranded in a remote Finnish forest after Air Force One is shot down by terrorists on the way to a G8 conference in Helsinki, after meeting […]
Posted by Gui on April 10, 2015
Review 102min Genre: War, Drama, Thriller Director: Andrew Niccol Cast: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Bruce Greenwood…and more Writer: Andrew Niccol Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Boyhood) stars as Major Egan, a stern and decorated US Air Force pilot turned “drone” operator who struggles with responsibilities of conducting deadly warfare behind a computer screen, from the safety […]
Posted by Gui on February 21, 2015
Review 133min Genre: Action, Mystery, Drama, Crime Director: Michael Mann Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Leehom Wang…and more Writer: Morgan Davis Foehl Following a series of devastating international cyber-attacks, US and Chinese authorities are forced together to track down the perpetrators by turning to a convicted and imprisoned American hacker who originally designed the code […]
Posted by Gui on September 14, 2014
122 min Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: Anton Corbijn Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright…more Writers: Andrew Bovell , John le Carré The Late, Great Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a German spy in modern day Hamburg on the trail of a young illegal Chechen immigrant whom he believes is involved in the global […]