Writer-director Sean Baker continues an excellent run of films with a highly successful tale of the relationship between a New York sex worker and a Russian heir that deservedly won five Oscars including Best Film, Director and Actress for the talented Mikey Madison. She plays the titular character, known as ‘Ani’, who meets the rather entitled Ivan Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn), known as ‘Vanya’, at the Brooklyn club where she works and, after a few sexual encounters, is paid to live with him…
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Mickey 17 2025
Following his unexpected Oscar success with Parasite, highly acclaimed director Bong Joon Ho returns with his furthest foray into sci-fi territory, a loose adaptation of Edward Ashton’s book Mickey 7. Robert Pattinson is excellent as ever playing several iterations of Mickey Barnes, who fleeing a criminal organisation with his friend Timo (Steven Yeun) signs up to be an ‘Expendable’ on a spaceship, a rather immoral practice, where he is sent on dangerous missions and reprinted as an exact replica when…
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The Princess Bride 1987
A classic ‘80s fantasy from writer William Goldman and director Rob Reiner that truly stands the test of time due to its pure fairytale style and excellent humour. True loves Cary Elwes as Westley and Robin Wright as Buttercup are ably supported by an amazing cast. Wallace Shawn’s cunning Vizzini, Andre the Giant’s loveable Fezzik and Mandy Patinkin’s charming and vengeance-fuelled Inigo Montoya make a great trio as Buttercup’s kidnappers, while Chris Sarandon’s slimy Prince Humperdinck and Christopher Guest, who…
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Rambo: Last Blood 2019
Get the Gringo director Adrian Grünberg helms the return to the screen of Sylvester Stallone's popular character some eleven years after the previous instalment. John Rambo has settled down on his late father's horse ranch in Bowie, Arizona, where he has helped to raise his friend/housekeeper Maria's (Adriana Barraza) granddaughter, Gabrielle (Yvette Monreal). When the latter elopes to Mexico to seek out her estranged father, she is drugged and kidnapped by enforcers of a Mexican cartel ran by Hugo (Sergio…
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