About a Boy – Parental (Recommendation)

Year: 2002 Directors: Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Natalia Tena, Sharon Small, Victoria Smurfit, Augustus Prew, Isabel Brook, Nicholas Hutchison, Peter McNicholl Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-apwoGTpi7E     About a Boy is a film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, which is highly reflected in...

The Danish Girl – Transformative (Recommendation)

Year: 2015 Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Rebecca Root, Pip Torrens, Henry Pettigrew Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88APYIGkjk     The Oxford Dictionary describes the word transformative as “Causing a marked change in someone or something”, meaning that is can be applied to a multitude of situations....

Lady Bird – Ashamed (Recommendation)

  Year: 2017 Director: Greta Gerwig Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Odeya Rush, Beanie Feldstein, Jordan Rodrigues, Laura Marano, Jake McDorman, John Karna, Stephen Henderson, Lois Smith, Bayne Gibby Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNi_HC839Wo   We all have those teenage angst years, where we hate our mothers and love our fathers (mainly...

Moulin Rouge! – Singing (Recommendation)

Year: 2001 Director: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan Mcgregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Kylie Minogue, Jacek Koman, David Wenham, Caroline O'Connor Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtEgAx80NC4   Baz Luhrmann is a director obsessed with the fantastical, musical, and beautiful. From Romeo+Juliet to The Great Gatsby, Luhrmann has incorporated the modern world into stories from or set...