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Poor Things (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 22, 2023

Review 221min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-fi Director:     Yorgos Lanthimos Cast:         Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo…and more Writers:     Tony McNamara and Alasdair Gray -Synopsis- In a surrealist Victorian Britain, a tragically deceased young woman is re-born and given a second shot at life when she’s re-animated by an eccentric mad scientist, as her […]

The French Dispatch (2021)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 15, 2021

Review 108min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Romance Director:     Wes Anderson Cast:         Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright…and more Writers:     Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola…more -Synopsis- A picturesque fictional mid-20th century French town brings together a collection of colourful journalists and their stories, published by a French outpost of an American paper on the […]

The Lighthouse (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on January 27, 2020

Review 109min Genre:       Drama, Horror, Thriller Director:    Robert Eggers Cast:         Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman…and more Writers:     Robert Eggers and Max Eggers -Synopsis- The bleakness of a late 19th century New England island lighthouse holds the fate of its caretakers, one an ornery veteran seaman and the other his newly arrived Canadian apprentice, whose […]

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Posted by Gui on December 7, 2019

Review 144min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:    Edward Norton Cast:         Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin…and more Writers:     Edward Norton and Jonathan Lethem -Synopsis- When his friend and mentor is brutally murdered on the streets of 1950’s New York, a solitary private detective with Tourette’s Syndrome and an obsessive mind determined to solve the mystery […]

Aquaman (2018)

Posted by Gui on December 14, 2018

Review 143min Genre:     Comic-book, Action, Adventure, Fantasy Director:  James Wan Cast:       Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson…and more Writers:   David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Will Beall, James Wan…more -Synopsis- A child of two worlds but an outsider in both, half-human half-Atlantean ‘Arthur Curry’ must rise to his regal destiny when the megalomaniacal would-be king of Atlantis seeks […]

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Posted by Gui on November 3, 2017

Review 114min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:  Kenneth Branagh Cast:       Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp…and more Writers:   Michael Green and Agatha Christie -Synopsis- When someone mysteriously dies on the world renown luxury train travelling across Europe, fellow passenger and legendary detective ‘Hercule Poirot’ must unravel a mystery which will test his moral compass and […]

The Florida Project (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on November 1, 2017

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 […]

The Great Wall Trailer #1

Posted by Gui on July 28, 2016

Matt Damon stars as a soldier of fortune who finds a cause on the newly built “Great Wall” and a Chinese mission to help defend the realms from the mysterious beasts that threaten it, a period fantasy epic and Asian monster mystery from visionary Chinese director Yimou Zhang (Hero, House of Flying Daggers). Directed by […]

John Wick (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on April 8, 2015

Review 101min Genre:      Action, Thriller Director:   Chad Stahelski Cast:        Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Willem Dafoe…and more Writer:     Derek Kolstad A retired legendary assassin mourning for his dead wife is forced back into action when Russian gangsters take the last thing in the world that he holds dear, as Keanu Reeves stars as ‘John Wick’ in […]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 1, 2014

99min Genre:    Comedy, Adventure Director: Wes Anderson Cast:      Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Revolori…and more Writers:  Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness If you are a fan of the Wes Anderson cinematic universe you can expect all of the usual elements in this film, if not then expect an original storyline full of quirky […]