After surviving the horrors of World War II, Hungarian architect László Tóth (Adrian Brody) flees to America in search of a better life. One that it seems wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. (Guy Pearce) is willing to give him. Over the course of a captivating 214 minute running time, which includes a baked … Continue reading The Brutalist
An idealistic junior campaign manager believes he is currently working for a politician who is the real deal and will truly make a difference. But is anyone truly insusceptible to the corruption that comes with power? Leading into the Ohio State Primary the stakes could not be higher. Whomever wins will take the Democratic nomination … Continue reading The Ides Of March
When David Marks’ (Ryan Gosling) wife Katie (Kirsten Dunst) goes missing in 1982 the prime suspect is Marks himself. Set across the years of 1971 to 2003 All Good Things is based on the true story of real estate tycoon Robert Durst. Even more sensational than the content of this film is that it would … Continue reading All Good Things
A Mexican Cartel boss approaches an under appreciated lawyer with an unbelievable demand. Secretly arrange gender reassignment surgery for him, fake their death and relocate his wife and children without anyone knowing. Accept and be rich or decline and die. Emelia Perez is an outlandish film. The plot line synopsis above only covers the first … Continue reading Emilia Perez
The story of how Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) fall in and out of love. Cross-cutting the couple's tender beginnings with their bitter ending. Completing my double bill of Ryan Gosling characters falling in and out of love I watched 2010’s Blue Valentine. A much more gritty and contemporary love story compared to … Continue reading Blue Valentine
Lars (Ryan Gosling) surprises his family and local community when he reveals his long distance internet girlfriend to be a lifelike sex doll. Realising his mental health is in decline everyone decides to go along with his delusion whilst he works through his issues. Lars And The Real Girl is a difficult film to explain. … Continue reading Lars And The Real Girl
In 1961, a nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan (Timothee Chalamet) arrives in New York as a complete unknown. By 1965 he is the most famous musician in the world and about to deliver a groundbreaking electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. A Complete Unknown is a classic biopic that chooses to focus on a fixed … Continue reading A Complete Unknown
Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie), the greatest opera singer in the world, lives out her final days in Paris, 1977. Maria is a biopic by director Pablo Larrain. Which is to say that it is unlike typical biopics. For anyone who has seen his previous films Jackie or Spencer, which focused on Jackie Kennedy and Princess … Continue reading Maria
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a high powered CEO with a successful husband (Antonio Banderas) and two teenage children. But when she meets Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a much younger intern at her company she finds herself in a torrid affair that caters to her deepest darkest fantasies. When we first meet Romy she is faking an … Continue reading Babygirl
The story of multiple families who all lived in the same place across hundreds of years told from the perspective of a single fixed camera. Here is a Robert Zemeckis picture. Zemeckis is the mastermind behind crowd pleasing stories like Romancing The Stone, the Back To The Future trilogy and Death Becomes Her. But more … Continue reading Here
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