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]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-4-2023 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-4-2023
Director: Chad Stahelski
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/murder-on-the-orient-express-2017 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:44:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/murder-on-the-orient-express-2017
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/from-russia-with-love-1963 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:55:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/from-russia-with-love-1963
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-world-is-not-enough-1999 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:23:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-world-is-not-enough-1999
Director: Michael Apted
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:56:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:56:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
Three decades after the Empire's defeat, a new threat arises in the militant First Order. Defected stormtrooper Finn and the scavenger Rey are caught up in the Resistance's search for the missing Luke Skywalker. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker-2019 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:52:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker-2019
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again in the conclusion of the Skywalker saga. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-fallout-2018 Mon, 27 May 2024 17:08:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-fallout-2018
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cinematographer: Rob Hardy
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dune-2-2020 Fri, 24 May 2024 01:20:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dune-2-2020
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/geostorm-2017 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:17:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/geostorm-2017
Director: Dean Devlin
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-red-one-1980 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-red-one-1980
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/incendies-2010 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:35:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/incendies-2010
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: André Turpin
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/aftersun-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:29:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/aftersun-2022
Director: Charlotte Wells
Cinematographer: Gregory Oke
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she d... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fay-grim-2006 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:52:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fay-grim-2006
Director: Hal Hartley
Cinematographer: Sarah Cawley
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is informatio... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/golda-2023 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:35:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/golda-2023
Director: Guy Nattiv
Cinematographer: Jasper Wolf
Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kis-uykusu-2014 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:01:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kis-uykusu-2014
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cinematographer: Gökhan Tiryaki
A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/of-fathers-and-sons-2017 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 16:32:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/of-fathers-and-sons-2017
Director: Talal Derki
Cinematographer: Kahtan Hassoun
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/al-medina-2015 Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:12:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/al-medina-2015
Director: Omar Shargawi
Cinematographer: Aske Foss
Yusif is half Danish, half Arab travels to the Middle Eastern city of Medina - along with his pregnant Danish wife, Sarah. Yusif wants to start a new life with his wife in his father's ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/homeland-2011 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:45:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/homeland-2011
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter, Michael Cuesta, Daniel Attias, Alex Graves, Keith Gordon, Tucker Gates, Clark Johnson, Seith Mann, Guy Ferland, Michael Offer, Michael Klick, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Carl Franklin, Charlotte Sieling, Brad Turner, John Dahl, Lodge Kerrigan, Jeremy Podeswa, David Semel, Daniel Minahan, David Nutter, Jeffrey Reiner, John David Coles, Nelson McCormick
Cinematographer: David Klein, Nelson Cragg, Giorgio Scali, Chris Manley
A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:06:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/schindlers-list-1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/paradise-now-2005 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:50:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/paradise-now-2005
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Cinematographer: Antoine Héberlé
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:37:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001
Director: Bertram van Munster, Evan Weinstein
Cinematographer: Peter Rieveschl, Per Larsson, Tom Cunningham, Josh Gitersonke
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/body-of-lies-2008 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:14:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/body-of-lies-2008
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Alexander Witt
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/capernaum-2018 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:11:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/capernaum-2018
Director: Nadine Labaki
Cinematographer: Christopher Aoun
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:31:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/treasures-of-the-copper-scroll-2007 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:21:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/treasures-of-the-copper-scroll-2007
Director: Jim Long
Cinematographer: Yossi Cohen, Carol M. Long, Jim Long
In 1952, a mysterious scroll fashioned from the purest of copper is found in a cave along the shores of the Dead Sea. The discovery launches a search for sacred treasures from the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/der-staat-gegen-fritz-bauer-2015 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:04:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/der-staat-gegen-fritz-bauer-2015
Director: Lars Kraume
Cinematographer: Jens Harant
The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-trek-beyond-2016 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:09:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-trek-beyond-2016
Director: Justin Lin
Cinematographer: Stephen F. Windon
The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jason-bourne-2016 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:07:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jason-bourne-2016
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
The CIA's most dangerous former operative is drawn out of hiding to uncover more explosive truths about his past. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/exodus-1960 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/exodus-1960
Director: Otto Preminger
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/forushande-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:25:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/forushande-2016
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cinematographer: Hossein Jafarian
While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/children-of-heaven-1997 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:09:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/children-of-heaven-1997
Director: Majid Majidi
Cinematographer: Parviz Malekzaade
After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kilo-two-bravo-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:01:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kilo-two-bravo-2014
Director: Paul Katis
Cinematographer: Chris Goodger
Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg - or your life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/iraq-in-fragments-2006 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:41:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/iraq-in-fragments-2006
Director: James Longley
Cinematographer: James Longley
Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/operation-homecoming-writing-the-wartime-experience-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:37:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/operation-homecoming-writing-the-wartime-experience-2007
Director: Richard Robbins
Cinematographer: Jason Ellson
A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beaufort-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:21:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beaufort-2007
Director: Joseph Cedar
Cinematographer: Ofer Inov, Asaf Sudri
The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ajami-2009 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:12:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ajami-2009
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cinematographer: Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ave-maria-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:58:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ave-maria-2015
Director: Basil Khalil
Cinematographer: Eric Raphael Mizrahi
The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mustang-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:56:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mustang-2015
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Cinematographer: David Chizallet, Ersin Gok
When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/theeb-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:56:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/theeb-2014
Director: Naji Abu Nowar
Cinematographer: Wolfgang Thaler
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-martian-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:50:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-martian-2015
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:24:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/war-photographer-2001 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:54:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/war-photographer-2001
Director: Christian Frei
Cinematographer: Peter Indergand, James Nachtwey
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dam999-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:39:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dam999-2011
Director: Sohan Roy
Cinematographer: Ajayan Vincent
After many years two mariners return to homeland with the hope of a new beginning, little did they know about a disaster that would change their destiny. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/killing-in-the-name-2010 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:36:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/killing-in-the-name-2010
Director: Jed Rothstein
Cinematographer: Tom Hurwitz
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism around the globe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-red-planet-mars-1999 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:34:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-red-planet-mars-1999
An American scientist contacts Mars by radio and receives information that Mars is a utopia and that Earth's people can be saved if they return to the worship of God. Revolution sweeps the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/la-ritournelle-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:50:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/la-ritournelle-2014
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Cinematographer: Agnès Godard
Brigitte and Xavier are a couple of cattle farmers living and working together in Normandy. They have always got on well but now that their two children have left the household, routine and... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rosewater-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:34:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rosewater-2014
Director: Jon Stewart
Cinematographer: Bobby Bukowski
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/guru-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:06:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/guru-2007
Director: Mani Ratnam
Cinematographer: Rajiv Menon
A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay 1958, and rises from its streets to become the GURU, the biggest tycoon in Indian history. ]]>