Nightcrawler, 2014. Directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Ann Cusack, Kevin Rahm, Anne McDaniels, Riz Ahmed and Michael Hyatt. SYNOPSIS: A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism. A security guard discovers a chain fence being cut by a mysterious individual who assaults him for his watch.  The thief in question is Lou […]

The Price We Pay (La Face cachée de l’impôt), 2014. Directed by Harold Crooks. SYNOPSIS: The  documentary explores the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens. Corporations like individuals try to avoid paying taxes […]

Coming Home (Gui lai), 2014. Directed by Zhang Yimou. Starring Gong Li, Chen Daoming, and Zhang Huiwen.   SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, an amnesiac woman (superstar Gong Li) struggles to regain her memory and reconnect with her long-imprisoned husband. A Chinese academic escapes from political prison after a decade of being incarcerated and […]

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Kaguyahime no monogatari), 2013. Directed by Isao Takahata. Starring Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii, and Nobuko Miyamoto. SYNOPSIS: Based on a tenth-century folk tale, an old man finds a princess in a bamboo who is only the size of a finger. A bamboo cutter is out in the forest where he […]

Scarlet Innocence (Madam Ppang-Deok), 2014. Directed by Yim Pil-sung. Starring Woo-sung Jung, Esom, and So-young Park.   SYNOPSIS: Small-town girl Deokee is abandoned by university professor Hak-kyu after a lusty affair, and vengefully approaches him 8 years later when he starts suffering from blindness. A university professor seeks refuge teaching in a small town while a […]

Life in a Fishbowl (Vonarstræti), 2014. Directed by Baldvin Zophoníasson. Starring Hera Hilmar, Thorsteinn Bachmann, and Thor Kristjansson. SYNOPSIS: The lives of a struggling single mother, a former athlete trying to scale the corporate ladder, and a once-acclaimed author turned full-time drunk intersect in surprising ways. All three stories begin on a dark rainy night situated in […]

In Her Place, 2014. Directed by Albert Shin. Starring Yoon Da Kyung, Ahn Ji Hye, Kil Hae Yeon, Kim Sung Cheol, Kim Chang Hwan, and Kim Kyung Ik.   SYNOPSIS: A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager. A luxury car drives up a dirt road to a […]

Not My Type (Pas son genre), 2014 Directed by  Lucas Belvaux. Starring Émilie Dequenne, Loïc Corbery, Clément Le Guern, Sandra Nkake, Charlotte Talpaert, Anne Coesens, Daniela Bisconti and Didier Sandre. SYNOPSIS: A Parisian philosophy professor transferred to a dull provincial town learns to cut loose and live a little after he meets a brassy blonde coiffeuse. A woman cries as her boyfriend has just […]

Justice (Hustisya), 2014 Directed by Joel Lamangan. Starring Nora Aunor, Rocco Nacino, Rosanna Roces, Sunshine Dizon, Gardo Versoza, Chynna Ortaleza and Jeric Gonzales. SYNOPSIS: A woman fights for her soul while working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate. A man and woman act like a couple of love-struck teenagers while another female passenger is not impressed by what she […]

In this week’s episode of FMTV’s Movie Myths, Oliver Davis finds out whether one of the ‘Bond Girls’ from the 007 franchise was actually born a man. Octopussy or Thunderballs? There’s only one way to find out! Check out latest installment of Movie Myths below for the truth behind the films…. FMTV will be back […]