Maren (Taylor Russell) is a young woman learning how to survive on her own, while discovering things about herself that very few people can understand. When she meets Lee (Timothee Chalamet), they join forces and embark on a road trip across America. Despite their best efforts, all the roads taken ultimately lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether love can survive their oddities.
It’s the early 1990’s and Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), teams up with his friend and partner Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), to start a brokerage firm, which quickly grows from a small number of staff to more than two-hundred and fifty strong. Their status in the trading community grows, while other companies begin to become envious. With this success comes attention and the need to fund lavish lifestyles, along with an FBI investigation. Can the pair maintain their elaborate lives while being watched closely by the law? A unique flick that is worth anyone’s time. The Wolf of Wall Street is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Not long after the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York, United States, the CIA assign rookie agent Maya (Jessica Chastain) to Pakistan in a bid to seek out the man responsible for the attacks, Osama bin Laden. For the years that follow, obsession ensues, before finally his whereabouts are thought to be known and the next objective for the American’s is to assassinate the threat. A well-made movie that is polarising to some, but well received by others. Zero Dark Thirty is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
In the summer of 2005, Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg) and his highly skilled team, set out on a dangerous and daring mission to capture or kill a notorious Taliban leader, deep in the heart of Afghanistan. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. Lone Survivor is one of the finest releases relating the subject of the war in Afghanistan and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
A terrorist bombing in Northern Africa consequently kills 19 people, including a single American, this leads to an Egyptian chemical engineer named Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) being arrested and detained upon arriving back to the United States after a work trip to South Africa. Upon his arrest, his wife begins working to try and uncover what has truly happened to her husband, and why. A release that dates back to 2007 but still provides some form of entertainment value. Rendition is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Based in 2018, during the controversial war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter named Ahmed (Dar Salim), risks his own life to escort Master Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal), across miles of gruelling terrain in a bid for safety, after the pair were earlier ambushed on a routine mission in the desert to uncover explosive making facilities. An under looked film of 2023 and one that deserves all the recognition it receives. It’s worth noting that The Covenant is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
The DC Review Blog - EST. 2020 