Tag Archives: Michael Shannon

Review – The Shape of Water

Guillermo Del Toro’s latest film, released in 2017 is The Shape of Water, a fantasy, science fiction romantic drama, the likes of which only he can make. Set in the 1960’s in an American town near the coast, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) is a mute cleaner working in a restricted US research base.  Her life is a highly repeated pattern,

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Review – Nocturnal Animals

Tom Ford’s first return to directing since 2009’s A Single Man, is the 2016 dark psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals. Ford also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. The film stars Amy Adams as Susan Morrow, a successful art gallery director who is in a struggling marriage with business man Armie

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Review : 99 Homes

’99 Homes’ is a 2014 film that is grounded in the post housing market collapse across the US set in 2010, in Orlando, Florida. It’s both written and directed by Ramin Bahrani. It centres on Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), a tradesman struggling for paid work and about to his home to the bank having failed to keep up mortgage payments

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