Amant Double, 2017. Directed by Francois Ozon. Starring Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, and Jacqueline Bisset. SYNOPSIS: Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity. Amant Double is destined to […]
Movie Review – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017)
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, 2017. Directed by Paul McGuigan. Starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Stephen Graham, Leanne Best, Frances Barber, Kenneth Cranham, and Vanessa Redgrave. SYNOPSIS: A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady. Apparently, getting Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool off the ground and […]
Movie Review – Mom and Dad (2018)
Mom and Dad, 2018. Written and Directed by Brian Taylor. Starring Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur, Robert T. Cunningham, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Olivia Crocicchia, Rachel Melvin, and Lance Henriksen. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes […]
Movie Review – Walk With Me (2017)
Walk With Me, 2017. Directed by Mark J Francis and Max Pugh. Featuring Benedict Cumberbatch (narrator), Thich Nhat Hanh and Brother Phap De. SYNOPSIS: A meditative documentary about a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns dedicating to mindfulness and following the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. Even if you’ve not heard of Thich Nhat […]
Movie Review – Hostiles (2017)
Hostiles, 2017. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Christian Bale, Rosamond Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Timothée Chalamet, Jesse Plemons, Adam Beach, Q’orianka Kilcher, Rory Cochrane, Bill Camp, John Benjamin Hickey, Tanaya Beatty, Jonathan Majors, Scott Wilson, Peter Mullan, David Midthunder, Paul Anderson, Ryan Bingham, and Stephen Lang. SYNOPSIS: In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to […]
Movie Review – Coco (2017)
Coco, 2017. Directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina. Featuring the voice talents of Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renee Victor, and Edward James Olmos. SYNOPSIS: Young Miguel dreams of being a musician and is determined to compete in the talent competition at the Dia De Los Muertos celebrations. Despite his […]
Movie Review – Molly’s Game (2017)
Molly’s Game, 2017. Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Chris O’Dowd, Jeremy Strong and Graham Greene. SYNOPSIS: Molly Bloom comes from a high-achieving family and becomes an Olympic skier but, when her luck runs out on the piste, she has to find another way of earning money and […]
Movie Review – The Commuter (2018)
The Commuter, 2018. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, and Jonathan Banks. SYNOPSIS: A man gets caught in a criminal conspiracy on his usual commuter route home. I’m going to assume that everyone opening this review is asking the same question. Is this just Taken on a train? A fair […]
Movie Review – Driving While Black (2018)
Driving While Black, 2018. Directed by Paul Sapiano. Starring Dominique Purdy, Sheila Tejada, John Mead, and Julian Bane. SYNOPSIS: Dimitri delivers pizzas for a living – but as a young black man, he is faced with “extra” challenges while navigating the city. It’s certainly attention-grabbing that Driving While Black was written by Dominique Purdy (along […]
Movie Review – Blue World Order (2017)
Blue World Order, 2017. Directed by Che Baker and Dallas Bland. Starring Jake Ryan, Billy Zane and Bruce Spence. SYNOPSIS: The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which civilisation has crumbled. A massive electromagnetic pulse has killed all children on the planet with the exception of Molly (Billie Rutherford), the daughter of Jake […]
