Wuthering Heights:  

An updated version of British novelist Emily Bronte’s classic romance is a tale of star-crossed lovers and forbidden love. Yorkshire landowner Mr. Earnshaw (Paul Hilton) brings a West Indian boy (Solomon Glave) to earn his keep working on the family farm, naming him Heathcliff. While Heathcliff is regarded with deep suspicion by Earnshaw’s son, Hindley (Lee Shaw), he strikes up a friendship with Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine (Shannon Beer) that  grows stronger over time.

DIRECTED BY  Andrea Arnold

PRODUCED BY   Hanway Films LTD.

GENRES Drama, Nouveau, Romance

RUNNING TIME 2hrs 6min

STARRING James Howson and Nichola Burley, Kaya Scodelario

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Based on the novel “These Foolish Things” by Deborah Moggach, this comedy focusses on a group of British retirees who are enticed by advertisements to travel to India to stay at the Marigold Hotel, which has been restored as a retirement home by a young Indian man (Dev Patel) with the best of intentions.

However, when they arrive, they find the living accommodations aren’t quite as luxurious as portrayed in the brochure.

GENRES Comedy, Drama, Nouveau

RUNNING TIME 2hrs 4min

STARRING Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith, Judi Dench

DIRECTED BY  John Madden

PRODUCED BY   20th Century Fox

 The Rum Diary

Based on the writings of Hunter S. Thompson, this film is set in the 1950′s.  as, Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of America, wandering journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins).

DIRECTED BY  Bruce Robinson

GENRES Comedy, Drama, Nouveau, Romance

RUNNING TIME 1H55

STARRING Giovanni Ribisi and Aaron Eckhart ,Johnny Depp

First Night

Fusing the stately grandeur of Gosford Park with the magical music of Amadeus, ‘First Night’ is a the unique story of love’s fluctuating fortunes set against a backdrop of visual and vocal beauty. As the cast, the drama and the music carefully walk a tightrope between humour and pathos, a timeless romantic comedy unfolds.

DIRECTED BY  Christopher Menaul

PRODUCED BY   Stephen Evans

GENRES Drama, Musical, Nouveau

RUNNING TIME 1hr 56min

STARRING Bill Emma Williams, Julian Ovenden, Mia Maestro, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman

W.E.

This drama marks the directorial return of pop icon Madonna (her debut was 2008′s ‘Filth and Wisdom’) as she explores her own fascination with historical figure Wallis Simpson,  the woman who became notorious for briefly causing the downfall of the British throne.

The film fluctuates between the stories of 1930′s Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) as she and the future British king Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) fall hopelessly in love, and the modern-day Wally (Abbie Cornish), a young woman stuck in an abusive, loveless marriage, who stumbles upon their story and becomes fascinated by it.

DIRECTED BY  Madonna

GENRES Drama, Nouveau, Romance

RUNNING TIME 2hrs 0min

STARRING Abbie Cornish, James D’Arcy and Andrea Riseborough

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