In Asia, French TV reporter Marie (a luminous Cecile deFrance) briefly dies during a horrific natural disaster and has a vision of what she suspects may be the afterlife. Back home she can’t get the experience out of her mind and her obsession threatens her high-flying career and friendships. In San Francisco, lonely, middle-aged factory worker George (Matt Damon) can … Read the rest
Month: May 2017
Shin Godzilla ( Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi, Japan, 2016)
A strange creature emerges from Tokyo harbour and wreaks havoc on land. As clueless politicians talk and talk junior adviser Rando Yaguchi (Hiroki Hasegawa) sets up a taskforce of tech savvy geeks to uncover the truth. When airstrikes and artillery attacks prove futile the Americans send in bombers but the creature – nicknamed Godzilla – proves even more destructive than … Read the rest
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, South Korea, 1960)
A music teacher (Kim Jin-kyu) with a crippled daughter and a young son succumbs to his materialistic wife’s request for a housemaid (Lee Eun-shim). But the new arrival soon turns the quiet, ordered life of the family upside down and when the teacher sleeps with the housemaid and makes her pregnant her demands push the family to the brink of … Read the rest
Sori: Voice From The Heart (Lee Ho-jae, South Korea, 2016)
A U.S. spy satellite receives a distress call from a female soldier in Afghanistan and plunges back to Earth intent on a rescue mission. Landing in the sea the satellite is recovered by Hae-gwan (Lee Sung-min) a distraught father who has spent the last decade searching for his missing daughter. Together the odd couple come to an agreement; the satellite … Read the rest
Hotel Petrel Blue (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan, 2012)
Three friends, Yojio (Hiromasa Hirosue), Yukio (Go Jibiki) and Kohei (Takaki Uda) attempt an armoured truck robbery but it goes disastrously wrong after Kohei fails to show. After a stint in the slammer Yukio emerges seeking revenge. Kohei’s trail leads to a hotel by the sea surrounded by lava-topped mountains and its sole, apparently perpetual resident, a stunning, enigmatic beauty … Read the rest
