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...

The Truman Show – Materialistic (Recommendation)

Year: 1998 Director: Peter Weir Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Natascha McElhone, Noah Emmerich, Holland Taylor, Peter Krause, Paul Giamatti, Drian Delate Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTIzXAS7v4       Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is the unknowing star of the global phenomenon that is The Truman Show, a TV series that has followed him from the womb to present day,...

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...

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....

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...

Finding Nemo – Lost (Recommendation)

Year: 2003 Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich Starring: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Andrew Stanton, Alexander Gould, William Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Bob Peterson, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries, Vicki Lewis, Eric Bana, Joe Ranft Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdpNglLbt8     When you’re young, you don’t realise the impact films have on our social...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Chilly (Recommendation)

   Year: 2005 Director: Andrew Adamson Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Anna Popplewell, William Moseley, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, James Cosmo, Rupert Everett, Dawn French, Kiran Shah Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKj41HZBzM   Currently, the United Kingdom is experiences a snow storm, aptly named the “Beast from the East”, due to it...

Pay It Forward – Social Change (Recommendation)

  Year: 2000 Director: Mimi Leder Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Eugene Osment, Jon Bon Jovi, Jim Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Angie Dickinson, David Ramsey Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfW0wCV9iFI     Pay it Forward is an adaptation of Catherine Ryan Hyde’s novel of the same name, and revolves around a 7th grade class, who are...

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...