Actors: Emily Mortimer
Netflix is busy making its own movies now. Despite the bigger budgets, their decision to adopt a slightly different approach to movie production than the big studios leads to a flatter feel for some movies. It allows them to explore ideas that big studios may not and, in the process, generate the 21st century equivalent of 'straight to cable' movies. Spectral is – to be fair – better than the 'straight to' movies yet still doesn't quite live up to the expectations or 'pitch' you are sold in the trailer. A watchable sci-fi that could have benefitted from a little more script work.
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
Director Nic Mathieu
Release Date 1 December 2016
Movie Status —
Movie Rating Not bad
Starring: James Badge Dale, Clayne Crawford, Max Martini, Emily Mortimer, Ryan Robbins, Bruce Greenwood, Ursula Parker, Gonzalo Menendez, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Jimmy Akingbola, Miklós Bányai, Dylan Smith, James D. Dever, Royce Pierreson, Brian Caspe, Mark O'Neal, Declan Hannigan, Narantsogt Tsogtsaikhan, Tsogbaatar Batzorig, Philip Bulcock, Peter Schueller, Peter J. Chaffey, Filip Watermann, Michael Bodie, Aaron Șerban
A tale of psychology and suspense told well. DiCaprio plays the part well, as do the rest of the cast, and while the asylum format may have been played many times before and since (e.g. SuckerPunch), Scorcese's masterful hand and Kalogridis' excellent screenplay adeptly keep you guessing until the end where all the strands of string are tied together and the puzzle finally makes sense, raising this entry into this canon exemplary.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Director Martin Scorsese
Release Date 18 February 2010
Movie Rating Very good
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley, Patricia Clarkson, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, Elias Koteas, Robin Bartlett, Christopher Denham, Spencer Treat Clark, Joseph Sikora, Curtiss Cook, Gary Galone, John Franchi, Nellie Sciutto, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Joseph McKenna, Ruby Jerins, Tom Kemp, Bates Wilder, Drew Beasley, Dan Marshall
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
Director John Lasseter, Brad Lewis
Release Date 11 June 2011
Starring: Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, John Turturro, Eddie Izzard, Thomas Kretschmann, Joe Mantegna, Peter Jacobson, Bruce Campbell, Tony Shalhoub, Darrell Waltrip, Guido Quaroni, Brent Musburger, Jason Isaacs, David Hobbs, Stanley Townsend, Lloyd Sherr, Paul Dooley, Michel Michelis, Sig Hansen, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, Jenifer Lewis, Michael Wallis, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger, Jeff Garlin, Patrick Walker, Lewis Hamilton, Velibor Topic, John Mainieri, Brad Lewis, Richard Kind, Edie McClurg, Teresa Gallagher, Jeff Gordon, John Lasseter, Mark Winterbottom, Fernando Alonso, Vitaly Petrov, Jan Nilsson, Memo Rojas, Jacques Villeneuve, Sebastian Vettel