Flight, 2012.Directed by Robert Zemeckis.Starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, Bruce Greenwood, Kelly Reilly and John Goodman.  SYNOPSIS:An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.Somewhere within the 135 minutes of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight is an interesting and compelling story of admitting one’s failures and taking […]

Warm Bodies, 2013. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Cory Hardrict and Analeigh Tipton. SYNOPSIS: A zombie saves a girl from an attack and the two form a relationship that sets in motion a sequence of events that could transform the entire lifeless world. Every year […]

Lincoln, 2012 Directed by Steven Spielberg.Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill and Tim Blake Nelson. SYNOPSIS: Abraham Lincoln attempts to pass the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution whilst managing the Civil War. So much of Lincoln is filled […]

Dreams for Sale (Japan: Yume uru futari), 2012. Written and Directed by Miwa Nishikawa.Starring Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûsuke Iseya and Takako Matsu. SYNOPSIS: Married couple Kanya and Satoko are left devastated when their izakaya restaurant burns to the ground. Kanya’s continuous drunken stupor and rejection of his wife’s optimism leads to a drunken one-night stand. Initially […]

Lay the Favorite, 2012.Directed by Stephen Frears.Starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon, John Carrol Lynch, Corbin Bersen and Frank Grillo.SYNOPSIS:An exuberant ex-private dancer Beth (Rebecca Hall) arrives in Las Vegas in search of her ultimate dream to become a cocktail waitress. Fate leads her to Dink (Bruce Willis), […]

Holy Motors, 2012.Written and Directed by Leos Carax.Starring Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau and Michel Piccoli.SYNOPSIS:A day in the life of Monsieur Oscar (Lavant), a man travelling in his limousine to a string of ‘appointments’ where, in each, he takes on a new identity and agenda.One of the leading film […]

To Walk with Lions, 1999.Directed by Carl Schultz.Starring John Michie, Richard Harris, Kerry Fox, Ian Bannen, Hugh Quarshie, Honor Blackman and Geraldine Chaplin.SYNOPSIS:An arrogant young man (Michie) travelling through Africa crosses paths with George Adamson (Harris), a world-famous lion tamer. Adamson employs Tony and teaches him about the lions and land. Oscar-winning Born Free was […]

Lincoln, 2012Directed by Steven Spielberg.Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hawkes, Bruce McGill and Tim Blake Nelson.SYNOPSIS:As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own […]

Amour, 2012.Written and Directed by Michael Haneke.Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.SYNOPSIS:An elderly couple’s bond of love is severely tested after one of them suffers a stroke.Warning – spoilers ahead… Georges and Anne are a married couple in their eighties, still happy and in love after, we assume, several decades of marriage; one […]

The Last Stand, 2013. Directed by Kim Ji-woon.Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Luis Guzmán, Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Jaimie Alexander, Zach Gilford and Génesis Rodríguez. SYNOPSIS:  The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is […]