Director Sacha Gevasi Starring Peter Dinklage, Jamie Dornan, Frida Munting Rated M Score 6/6 A look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize, co-star of the hit ’70s TV series “Fantasy Island”, who took his own life in 1993 at the age of 50. I’m not entirely sure why I decided to watch this…
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Drama Movie Reviews
A Star is Born
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Director Bradley Cooper Starring Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott Rated M Score 5/6 A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Yeah, yeah I know. I get it I should have caught this one at this cinema. But in my defence,…
The Club
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Directed Bruce Beresford Starring Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson Rated M Score 6/6 Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club. For those of you who might not know The Club was based on a play of the same name from 1977 written by Australian playwright David…
The Beast
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Director Kevin Reynolds Starring George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer Rated M Score 4.5/6 A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks. For those of you who might be interested in 1986, after witnessing a team…
Outlaws and Angels
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Director JT Mollner Starring Chad Michael Murray, Frances Fisher, Teri Polo Rated MA Score 5/6 When outlaws on the lam after a bank robbery invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately,…
First Man
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Director Damien Chazelle Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke Rated M Score 5/6 American Astronaut Neil Armstrong from 1961-1969, on his journey to becoming the first human to walk the moon. Exploring the sacrifices and costs on the Nation and Neil himself, during one of the most dangerous missions in the history of space…
The Bombing
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Director Xiao Feng Starring Ye Liu, Bruce Willis, Seung-heon Song Rated MA Score 2/6 During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940. This is another movie that is known by a couple of different titles. Its original title…
Hornblower Loyalty & Hornblower Duty
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6 Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6…
Hornblower: Mutiny & Hornblower: Retribution
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner Rated M Score Hornblower: Mutiny 5/6 & Hornblower: Retribution 5.5/6 Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. In Hornblower Retribution Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica…
Hornblower: The Frogs and The Lobsters
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher Score M Rated 5.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. The Frogs and the Lobsters is the last of the movies that had its name changed for the US market where it is known as…