Live by Night
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.9/5) Rated: MA15+ Director / Screenwriter / Producer: Ben Affleck Based on a novel written by: Dennis Lehane Director of Photography: Robert Richardson Starring: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Matthew Maher, Miguel J. Pimentel, Max Casella. Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck) is a man... Read More »
Moonlight
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.2/5) Rated: M Directed by: Barry Jenkins Screenplay by: Barry Jenkins Story by: Tarell Alvin McCraney Produced by: Alede Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner Starring: Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris, Janelle Monáe, André Holland and Mahershala Ali. An emotionally charged, poignant film brought close to the audience through beautiful... Read More »
Passengers
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.6/5) Rated: M Directed by: Morten Tyldum Written by: Jon Spaihts Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen; Laurence Fishburne. A love story set in space. I saw the spaceship and the fantastic attention to detail (by award winning Guy Hendrix (Inception)) where each part of the ship is designed to take the... Read More »
Collateral Beauty
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.9/5) Rated: M Director: David Franel Writer: Alan Loeb Starring: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña, Helen Mirren, Naomie Harris, Keira Knightley; Jacob Latimore. Who doesn’t love watching an intricate set of dominoes fall? But when I realised this was the disintegration of Howard’s (Will Smith) heart, the final crash of... Read More »
Top 10 Films for 2016
It’s a mixed bag of top 10 films this year, with a top-heavy favourtism for the thriller! From the funny-sweet, Hunt for the Wilderpeople to the ultimate crime thriller, Sicario * I have to say the biggest stand-out for 2016: Director Denis Villeneuve. More Denis, we want more! 10. Hunt for the Wilderpeople Coming in at number... Read More »
Red Dog: True Blue
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★★ (4/5) Rated: PG Director: Kriv Stenders Producer: Nelson Woss Starring: Levi Miller, Bryan Brown, Jason Isaacs, Hanna Manga Lawrence, Calen Tassone, Thomas Cocquerel, Kelton Pell and John Jarratt. Sweet and funny, set on the backdrop of red desert, burnt skies and a story about a red dog named Blue. Red Dog: True Blue... Read More »
The Edge of Seventeen
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.7/5) Rated: M Written and Directed by: Kelly Fremon Craig Produced by: James L. Brooks, Richard Sakai, Julie Ansell Executive Producer: Donald Tang Music by: Atli Örvarsson Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner and Hayden Szeto. The Edge of Seventeen is a coming-of-age drama with a... Read More »
The Founder
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.7/5) Rated: M Directed by: John Lee Hancock Based on the original screenplay by: Robert Siegel Produced by: Aaron Ryder and Don Handfield Starring: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, B. J. Novak. Business is war. It’s not even dog eat dog, it’s rat eat... Read More »
Nocturnal Animals
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.9/5) Rated: MA15+ Director: Tom Ford Screenplay: Tom Ford Based on: Tony and Susan, written by Austin Wright (first published in 1993). Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough; Michael Sheen. A dark emotive story within a story that’s sometimes confronting and... Read More »
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
GoMovieReviews Rating: ★★★☆ (3.8/5) Rated: M Director: David Yates Script Written By: J. K. Rowling Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan, Fogler, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Ezra Miller, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Jon Voight, Ronan Raftery; Josh Cowdery. ‘Worrying means you suffer twice,’ says Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). Which is another way... Read More »