Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt has put together quite the ensemble cast for his 7th century historical epic Desert Warrior. Per Deadline, the film will star Anthony Mackie (Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Aiysha Hart (Mogul Mowgli) – seen in the first look image above – along with Sharlto […]
Dystopian sci-fi thriller Undergods gets a poster and trailer
Ahead of its release this May, a poster and trailer have arrived online for writer-director Chino Moya’s dystopian sci-fi thriller Undergods which stars Kate Dickie, Ned Dennehy, Geza Rohrig, Burn Gorman and Tanya Reynolds; take a look here… In a futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, K and Z roam the streets on the lookout for corpses and […]
Movie Review – Resistance (2020)
Resistance, 2020. Written and Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Edgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Bella Ramsey, Géza Röhrig, Karl Markovics, Alicia von Rittberg, Vica Kerekes, and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans […]
Jesse Eisenberg is Marcel Marceau in trailer for World War II drama Resistance
IFC Films has released a trailer for the upcoming drama Resistance. Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, the film tells the story of Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg) before he became a world-famous mime and explores his work with the French Resistance during World War II. Joining Eisenberg in the cast are Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy, […]
Mark Rylance, Matthias Schoenaerts and Géza Röhrig join Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet
Having directed just three features in the first 25 years of his career, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick is certainly making up for lost time; his latest film A Hidden Life – his sixth this decade – is currently screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he’s already hard at work on his next project […]
Movie Review – To Dust (2018)
To Dust, 2018. Directed by Shawn Snyder Starring Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit, and Leo Heller SYNOPSIS: Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, […]
Movie Review – To Dust (2018)
To Dust, 2018. Directed by Shawn Snyder. Starring Geza Rohrig and Matthew Broderick. SYNOPSIS: Grief stricken by the recent loss of his wife hasidic candor Shmuel (Geza Rohrig) is experiencing night terrors and concerns about how her rate of decomposition. Unable to find solace amongst the Jewish community and feeling pressured to move on, Shmuel […]
Movie Review – Son of Saul (2015)
Son of Saul, 2015. Directed by László Nemes. Starring Géza Röhrig, Lvente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Sándor Zsótér, Marcin Czarnik, Uwe Lauer and Christian Harting. SYNOPSIS: Auschwitz, 1944: a Jewish Hungarian, who burns the corpses of his own people, recognises a young boy from the crematorium and seeks a Rabbi for a proper […]
Second Opinion – Son of Saul (2015)
Son of Saul, 2015. Directed by László Nemes. Starring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn and Jerzy Walczak. SYNOPSIS: Surrounded by the horror of living in Auschwitz, Saul, a Sonderkommando, attempts to bury the body of a boy who he claims as his son. Based on the same source material as Tim Blake Nelson’s film […]
Movie Review – Son of Saul (2015)
Son of Saul, 2015. Directed by Laszlo Nemes. Starring Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar and Urs Rechn. SYNOPSIS: In an unnamed German concentration camp towards the end of World War II, Saul (Geza Rohrig) is a prisoner but also a member of the Special Squad (Sonderkommando), living and working inside the death factories. Despite all the horrors […]
