A group of
surfers travel to an island paradise on a ‘surfari’. One of the guests is a
single beautiful girl which causes jealousy between the friends.
In Caught Inside Bull a local
surf legend, snaps and crosses the line, he turns their dream vacation into a
nightmare ordeal, with a fight for survival. Trapped on the boat there is nowhere
to turn.
“A spectacularly
unhinged lead performance by Ben Oxenbould” The Daily Telegraph
This movie has all the elements of a great thriller, with a powerful end. Anne
Jill
is a beautiful young women living with her alcoholic sister. She was
previously a kidnap victim of a serial killer but as no evidence was
found, the police didn’t believe
her and she was committed to a mental institution for a number of
years.
In Gone, when Jill's sister disappears she is convinced her kidnapper is back so she
takes matters into her own hands, as the police believe it is all in
her head. Brilliant acting by Amanda Seyfrend (Mamma Mia).
Rated M 15+
I
thoroughly
enjoyed this movie as it keeps you on the edge of your seat till the
very end. Anne
Louis "Lou" Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a driven young man who sees a future career as a stringer, a freelance cameraman who films violent accidents and brutal crimes to sell to television news outlets. He discovers he has a talent and interest in this activity, and begins to gain more and more success. But his behaviour, already on the border of decency, slips, and he starts going to extreme lengths to get the best footage.
Gyllenhaal is phenomenally creepy with an unsettling charm that lures both business associates and the audience. The warped Bloom, with his frightening focus and unhinged outlook on life provides an arresting lead into the pseudo-world that is overly sensationalised media. But the skewed reality extends to overt corporation and the isolating affects it and media have on lives. Sometimes these jabs at mass media and business become a little redundant and clichéd. But when viewed as a distorted character study, through the prism of Bloom, who views the world through this media lens and interacts and negotiates life in business jargon, the film really takes hold. “It looks so real on the news”, Bloom says in woeful awe to a backdrop of the Los Angeles cityscape in the studio. He has indeed found his niche in this world, where the hyper-reality of the news and the detachment of business can fuel his strained waking hours.
Nightcrawler is an alluringly repugnant neo-noir thriller with a sensational lead performance.
A John Le Carre adaptation starring, in his final role, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Günther Bachmann (Hoffman) leads a special espionage unit in Hamburg that gathers intelligence from the local Islamic community. He has been monitoring Dr. Faisal Abdullah (Homayoun Ershadi), a prominent figure in the community who works with many charities, suspecting him of financing extremist activities. His attentions are also on Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin) a refugee who may be a potential terrorist. Through a web worthy of Le Carre’s status, Bachmann attempts to entangle Abdullah and Karpov. But as the flies are lured into the web Bachmann discovers that he too is in another’s web.
Hoffman is superb as the damaged, drained Bachmann. Dishevelled and weighed down, he sees the importance of what he is doing, but is too battered to uphold any romanticism. His approach is based on compassion and a weariness of perpetuity, which he suspects of the hard and short sighted tactics of his American counterparts and some German colleagues. His pessimism is from a true, deep seated longing to “make the world a safer place” only to be confronted with his and others' insufficiencies.
Not just for Hoffman fans, A Most Wanted Man is an unintentional yet eerily perfect swansong of a supreme actor.
Andreas
