Drama
Teen heart-throb Robert Pattinson stars in his third Hollywood hype Remember Me opposite Lost’s Aussie, Emilie de Ravin. Not to be confused with Melvyn Bragg’s novel, this romantic drama set in New York paints a sentimental image of love, loss and learning.
The Blind Side is a biography/drama based on a true story about the remarkable American football player Michael Oher who started life at the lowest rung of the socio-economic ladder and with the help of a caring woman and her family – rises to the very top – not…
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Chloe is a very intriguing Drama/Thriller that caught my eye – starring Julianne Moore (Children of Men), Liam Neeson (Taken) and Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body).
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The Road is yet another apocalyptic tale from…
Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen, Erin Brockovich), The Informant! is a politically themed comedy about an innocent employee Mark Whitacre, (Matt Damon) who has worked his way up the hierarchy only to be approached one day by the FBI to aid them in…
A Serious Man is a drama film dripping with black comedy loosely retelling the Biblical story of Job set in the 1960’s era of America, centring in on an average man and his struggles to find clarity in life.
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Bright Star is a Drama Romance film inspired by the biography of the the poet John Keats by Andrew Motion. Directed by Jane Campion who also wrote the screenplay, this is a beautifully written and directed three year romance between the English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and…
Clash of the Titans is based on the myth of Perseus (in Greek Mythology, Perseus was a hero who was born as God but raised as a man and killed legendary monsters). Perseus, with nothing left to lose, decides to take on Hades (Ralph Fiennes) who is trying to take…
