The wife of a British colonel in post-war Germany develops a relationship with the owner of the house she’s living in The Aftermath. Five months after the end of the second World War in 1945, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) travels to Hamburg to join her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), who is a colonel helping to…
A city in Poland prepare for the fulfilment of the Mayan doomsday prophesy in End of the World. One night in a city in Poland, a late night radio host makes the topic of end of the world, as prophesized by the Mayans. At the same time, an emergency operator receive calls from people, even…
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley star in this biopic about mathematician Alan Turing. During World War II, Turing (Cumberbatch) is hired by the British government to join a top team of code-breakers, fellow members of which include Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode) and Joan Clarke (Knightley), who are tasked by MI6 chief Stewart Menzies (Mark Strong)…
A group of gay activists finds a common cause with a group of striking Welsh miners in the true story Pride. Set in 1984, while the UK was still under the rule of Margaret Thatcher, a young gay activist named Mark (Ben Schnetzer) decides to raise money to support striking miners in Wales, forming a…
Seven years after his breakthrough film Once, Irish director John Carney returns with another musical drama set in New York City. Dan Mulligan (Mark Ruffalo) is a disgraced record executive, who stumbles upon an acoustic performance by singer-songwriter Greta (Keira Knightley). An English ex-patriot, Greta is struggling with her recent break-up with her rock star…
Based on the characters created by Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit goes back to the start of the career of the CIA analyst. After being injured during the war in Afghanistan in 2003, Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is recruited into the CIA by Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner). A decade later, Ryan is working a…
This film has a very simple story – the end of the world is imminent and two strangers go on a roadtrip to reunite with their loved ones before the Apocalypse. The apocalypse is not something that immediately comes to mind when you are creating the plot for a romantic comedy. Indeed, the film retains a dark overtone throughout…
I’m started to head into the cream of the crop of the Canada’s Top Ten selection. A Dangerous Method is of course the latest film by David Cronenberg. The very fact that the film is directed Cronenberg might affect the opinions of some from an auteuristic point of view. On it’s the own, I thought that…
Here is the third and final of the May “threequels” At approximate 2 hours and 50 minutes in length, the movie could have definitely used a bit of trimming. It’s not that hard to follow, like some critics are saying, however it could have done without some of the sub-plots. Specifically, Chow Yun-Fat’s Sao Feng…
