Synopsis – Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio. My Take – A common theme in Hollywood financial thrillers is that Wall Street is corrupt. In recent times, we have seen a couple of pretty informative films (Inside Job, The Big Short and to some extent Wolf of Wall Street), which … Continue reading Money Monster (2016) Review!!
Thanks to Unbroken, mainstream audiences saw more to Jack O’Connell than his 300: Rise of an Empire abs, and the actor has continued his career trek with interesting roles: this year’s Money Monster and Tulip Forever, and Terry Gilliam‘s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Now, O’Connell is hopping aboard the Netflix bandwagon to star in, Godless, which Steven Soderbergh will executive produce. Soderbergh re-teamed with his Out of Sight screenwriter Scott Frank for the project, which is an 1800s-set Western about an outlaw … Continue reading Jack O’Connell to Lead Steven Soderbergh Netflix Series, ‘Godless’!!
Synopsis – An artist falls for a young married woman while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Directed – Justin Chadwick Starring – Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne, Christoph Waltz Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Tulip Fever’ Trailer: Alicia Vikander Wants to GTFO of a Loveless Marriage!!
Synopsis – In the taut and tense thriller Money Monster, Lee Gates (George Clooney) is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor (Jack O’Connell) takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) hostage live on air. … Continue reading Check out the dramatic trailer of the thriller ‘Money Monster’ starring George Clooney & Julia Roberts!!
Synopsis – After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. My Take – The trailer for this Angelina Jolie directed film was enough to put it on my ‘Must See’ list! Jolie has certainly produced/ directed a film … Continue reading Unbroken (2014) Review!!
Synopsis – A young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971. My Take – Set against the complex backdrop of the beginnings of Northern Ireland in 1971 this is an extremely well made thriller. Sent into the front-line urban warfare, Hook’s regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Armitage (Sam Reid) is … Continue reading ’71 (2014) Review!!
