Thursday, June 30, 2016

July Pick: Our Kind of Traitor

Our Kind of Traitor


In the mood for a moody plot from John LeCarre? Hope so because for our July outing, we'll be seeing Our Kind of Traitor at the Varsity Cinema (ManuLife Centre, Bay & Bloor) on Tuesday, July 5. Screen time is 1:30, so let's meet near the box office about 20 minutes earlier. As always, if you don't see Movie Club members when you arrive, just go in and watch the film. Afterward, if you've signed up for a nosh & natter downstairs at Scaccia, look for us near the escalator or just go to the restaurant. Below are the deets about the movie.

SYNOPSIS:  
While on holiday in Marrakech, an ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard), who unbeknownst to them is a kingpin money launderer for the Russian mafia. 

When Dima asks for their help to deliver classified information to the British Secret Services, Perry and Gail get caught in a dangerous world of international espionage and dirty politics. The couple is propelled on a perilous journey through Paris and Bern, a safe house in the French Alps, to the murky corners of the City of London and to an alliance with the British Government via a ruthless and determined MI6 agent (Damian Lewis). 

TRAILER: http://www.cinemaclock.com/ont/toronto/movies/our-kind-of-traitor-2016/videos/204641 
REVIEW in The Guardianhttp://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/our-kind-of-traitor-film-review-an-entertaining-but-lightweight-espionage-thriller-a7022931.html






Friday, June 3, 2016

June Pick: Love & Friendship


Love & Friendship


Love & Friendship, the movie version of an unfinished Jane Austen novel titled Lady Susan, is getting rave reviews and sounds like something many Movie Club members would enjoy. So that's our pick for our June outing.

We'll be seeing it at the Varsity Cinema (ManuLife Centre, Bloor & Bay) on Tuesday, June 7. Screen time is 2:40, so let's meet near the box office about 20 minutes earlier.


SYNOPSIS:  
Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate. While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia (Chloƫ Sevigny), but two particularly handsome suitors (Xavier Samuel and Tom Bennett) complicate her orchestrations.


TRAILER:  http://www.cinemaclock.com/ont/toronto/movies/love-friendship-2016/videos/204639


REVIEW: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/love-friendship-20160512