GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Director: Deniz Gamze Erguven Screenplay: Deniz Gamze Erguven and Alice Winocour Starring: Gunes Sensoy, Dogba Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan, Hayda Akdogan and Erol Afsin. Originally screened in the Director’s Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. Set in Inebolu, a... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.2/5) Rated: PG Director: Taika Waititi Based on the book: ‘Wild Pork and Watercress’, written by Barry Crump Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Troy Kingi, Cohen Holloway, Stan Walker, Mike Minogue, Hamish Parkinson, Lloyd Scott. Hunt for the Wilderpeople is tongue-in-cheek... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.8/5) Directed by: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Screenplay: Robert Carlock Based on: ‘The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ by Kim Barker Starring: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thorton, Steve Peacocke; Christopher Abbott. Comedy/War/Drama? Kim is a 40-year-old copy writer who spends her time on... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.2/5) Director: Paul Ireland Screenplay: Damien Hill Cast: Damien Hill, John Brumpton, Maeve Dermody, Mark Coles Smith, Kerry Armstrong, Malcolm Kennard, Brad McMurray, John Orcsik, Mark Silveira. A day in the suburb of Footscray. Pawno is a well-paced, character driven film with a great soundtrack. This is a snapshot of Footscray culture... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.9/5) Director: Gavin Hood Screenplay: Guy Hibbert Starring: Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi, Lain Glen, Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Northam. I was completely absorbed by this film, from beginning to end. I’m not a fan of war movies. I find the violence a little too real and disturbing because it... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.2/5) Directed by: Simon Stone Produced by: Jan Chapman, Nicole O’Donohue Screenplay by: Simon Stone Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Mirada Otto, Anna Torv, Odessa Young, Sam Neill. An Australian film based on a play by Henrik Ibsen, ‘The Wild Duck’. After Henry (Jeoffrey Rush) closes down the timber mill, the... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.7/5) Directed and Written by: Peter Landesman. Based on: an exposé, ‘Game Brain’ published in GQ, 2009, by Jeanne Marie Laskas. Starring: Will Smith, Alac Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Arliss Howard, David Morse, Paul Reiser, Albert Brooks. Based on an exposé, ‘Game Brain’, Concussion is based on the true story of a Nigerian... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★★ Written and Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino Music Composed by: David Lang Starring: Michael Caine, Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Mădălina Diana Ghenea and Paul Dano. Youth is a meandering journey of many moments caught of people coming to terms with their lives. Opening with a band playing, a close up of... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.2/5) Director: Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu Writers: Mark L. Smith and Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu Based in part on the novel by Michael Punke, ‘The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge’. Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poutter and Domhnall Gleeson. Revenant: A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead. Hugh Glass... Read More »
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★☆ (2.8/5) Directed by: Angelina Jolie Pitt Written by: Angelina Jolie Pitt Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Arestrup, Richard Bohringer The drinking, the smoking, the difficult relationship and the seaside… If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I was about to watch a film based on a... Read More »