Chocolat – Self-Indulgent (Recommendation)

  Year: 20000 Director: Lasse Hallström Starring: Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Lena Olin, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss, Leslie Caron, Peter Stormare, Victoire Thivisol, John Wood, Hugh O'Conor, Aurelien Parent Koenig Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=692hOJq1KJE     Chocolat is a film about passion, desire, and indulgence. Set in a quiet town in rural France, we are...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Laugh (Recommendation)

  Year: 2017 Director: James Gunn Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Karen Gillian, Michael Rooker, Kurt Russell, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Sylvester Stallone, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Laura Haddock Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cv2ueYnKjg   Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is the second film adaptation of the Marvel comic books of...

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...

Bend It Like Beckham – Goal-oriented (Recommendation)

  Year: 2002 Director: Gurinder Chadha Starring: ParminderNagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Archie Panjabi, Preeya Kalidas, Anupam Kher, Juliet Steveson, Frank Harper, Ameet Chana, Shazney Lewis, Nina Wadia Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhahNBMXw0     In Bend It like Beckham, we’re are shown the world of female football through the eyes of two different cultures, the west...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – Escapism (Recommendation)

  Year: 2017 Director: Luc Besson Starring: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Kris Wu, John Goodman, Herbie Hancock, Rutger Hauer, Elizabeth Debicki, Sam Spruell, Diva Cam, Alain Chabat Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNrK7xVG3PM   I have been watching Luc Besson since I was a child: The Fifth Element, Arthur and the Invisibles, Taxi, Léon:...

Trolls – Happiness (Recommendation)

  Year: 2016 Director: Mike Mitchell Starring: Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Russell Brand, Zooey Dechanel, Kunal Nayyar, Ron Funches, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Baranski, Jeffery Tambor, John Cleese, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ricky Dillon, Grace Helbig Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjm5VQ11TQ   Quoting one of the most powerful wizards of all time, Albus Dumbledore: ““Happiness can be...

Pitch Perfect – Singing (Recommendation)

Year: 2012 Director: Jason Moore Starring: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Hana Mae Lee, Kelley Jakle, Wanetah Walmsley, Shelley Regner, Adam Devine, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dItOM6eYXY   On this wet, windy, and all round miserable hump day, we have...