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First trailer for submarine thriller Kursk starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Colin Firth

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Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, a trailer has arrived online for the submarine thriller Kursk. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, the film stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth, Lea Seydoux, Max Von Sydow, Michael Nyqvist, August Diehl, Steven Waddington, and Matthias Schweighöfer; take a look here… “It is the first major Russian Navy exercise […]

Movie Review – Racer and the Jailbird (2017)

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Racer and the Jailbird, 2017. Directed by Michaël R. Roskam. Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eric De Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, and Nathalie Van Tongelen. SYNOPSIS: When career criminal Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts) meets a beautiful young race driver named Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos), the two of them begin a passionate affair that brings the worlds of high society and the gangster underworld […]

Movie Review – The Danish Girl (2015)

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The Danish Girl, 2015 Directed by Tom Hooper Starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Adrian Schiller, Ben Whishaw and Matthias Schoenaerts SYNOPSIS: A fictitious love story inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. […]

DVD Review – The Loft (2015)

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The Loft, 2015. Directed by Erik Van Looy. Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Valerie Cruz, Isabel Lucas, Elaine Cassidy, Matthias Schoenaerts and Rachael Taylor. SYNOPSIS: A group of married men rent a city penthouse to indulge in extra marital affairs but it all goes disastrously wrong when a dead body is discovered. The […]

Second Opinion – Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

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Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple and Jessica Barden. SYNOPSIS: In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and […]

Movie Review – Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

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Far from the Madding Crowd, 2015. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple and Jessica Barden. SYNOPSIS: In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and […]

Movie Review – Suite Française (2015)

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Suite Française, 2015. Directed by Saul Dibb. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Margot Robbie, Sam Riley and Ruth Wilson. SYNOPSIS: During the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager and Bruno von Falk, a German soldier. We’ve seen romantic movies, […]

Movie Review – The Loft (2015)

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The Loft, 2015. Directed by Erik Van Looy. Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eric Stonestreet and Isabel Lucas. SYNOPSIS: Five married guys conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city–a place where they can carry out hidden affairs and indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a […]

Movie Review – Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Camp, Joely Richardson, Kristof Konrad, Douglas Hodge, Sergei Polunin, Sakina Jaffrey, Nicole O’Neill, David Z. Miller, Makar Zaporozhskiy, Sasha Frolova, Joel de la Fuente, Thekla Reuten, Sergej Onopko, and Jeremy Irons SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika […]

Movie Review – Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Joely Richardson, Charlotte Rampling and Jeremy Irons. SYNOPSIS: After a career-ending injury, a budding prima ballerina finds herself unable to pay for her mother’s life saving medical treatment.  Her uncle, a high-ranking government official, recruits her to Russian intelligence as a […]