Director: Guillermo del Toro Writers: Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain Upon its release, Crimson Peak was met with an indifferent response from the mainstream, to whom the marketing department had promised a nightmare-inducing horror film, which Guillermo Del Toro’s film most certainly isn’t. Despite possessing certain trappings of many a […]
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Director: Sam Hargrave Writer: Joe Russo Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Golshifteh Farahani The first thing worth noting about Extraction is that Chris Hemsworth stars as a man by the name of Tyler Rake. Tyler Rake is buff, tough, and comes prepackaged with a standard-issue dark backstory like a haunted G.I. Joe. And, indeed, he does come to […]
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Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: Ted Griffin Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon After sex, lies, and videotape became the archetype for the 1990s’ boom of immensely successful independent cinema, indie iconoclast Steven Soderbergh spent ten years in the wilderness with experimental and underseen fare. Then he steered back to the mainstream with an incredible streak of movies […]
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Director: Rachel Mason Featuring: Karen Mason, Barry Mason, Rachel Mason Circus of Books is a genuine stranger-than-fiction story; a documentary telling the tale of the titular Silver Lake bookstore, which sold gay pornography, science-fiction novels, Bibles and foreign newspapers side-by-side. It was run by Barry and Karen Mason (whose daughter Rachel directed this documentary), an unassuming couple […]
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Queen and Slim are out on a first date which certainly doesn’t go to plan when they are pulled over by a police officer and everything spirals out of control when Slim accidentally kills him in self defence. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lindsay and Frank get off on the wrong foot standing in a queue at the airport, only to find out that they are indeed both attending the same wedding. Both miserable and pretty much given up on life they obviously then get on very well! ⭐️⭐️
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The end of the Skywalker saga as the remaining members of the Resistance must face the First Order on final time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Inside the Vatican Pope Benedict who is more conservative has a meeting with who would be future Pope Francis (current Cardinal) a liberal as they must find common ground to ensure the path of the Catholic Church. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bob Harris is a faded movie star who is in Tokyo to film a whiskey ad for the Japanese market. Staying in the same hotel is a young twenty something woman Charlotte is left on her own while her husband a photographer is working. The pair form a very unlikely bond and friendship when they […]
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A film looking into the forming of teen all-girl rock band The Runaways in the 1970s, led by Joan Jet and Cherie Currie. ⭐️⭐️
First Scene Screenplay Festival 