Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Read More »
Tag Archives: Michael Winterbottom
On the Road (2016) Michael Winterbottom
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. Read More »
I Want You (1998) Michael Winterbottom
Helen is a young woman running a hairdressing salon; Bob is her boyfriend and local radio DJ Read More »
Butterfly Kiss (1995) Michael Winterbottom, Amanda Plummer, Kathy Jamieson, Saskia Reeves
Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. Read More »
Code 46 (2003) Michael Winterbottom, Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri
Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities Read More »
In This World (2002) Michael Winterbottom, Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan Read More »
Wonderland (1999) Michael Winterbottom, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Drama
There’s little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. Read More »
Go Now (1995) Michael Winterbottom, Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt, Drama, Romance, Sport
The Claim (2000) Michael Winterbottom, Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Drama, Romance, Western
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Read More »
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom, Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Documentary, Drama, War
In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.
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