ALICIA VIKANDER

BLUE BAYOU (2021)
Starring Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh Đan Phạm, Emory Cohen, Sydney Kowalske and Vondie Curtis-Hall. Directed by Justin Chon.

Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy and step-dad to their beloved daughter Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

REVIEWS Blue Bayou - An immigration drama drowning in its own misery

SUBMERGENCE (2018)
Starring James McAvoy, Alicia Vikander, Alexander Siddig, Celyn Jones, Audrey Quoturi, Harvey Friedman, Alex Hafner, Clémentine Baert, Adam Quintero and Karim Wallet. Directed by Wim Wenders.

A love story that takes us into the extremely different worlds of our two protagonists, Danielle Flinders and James More. They meet by chance in a remote hotel in Normandy where they both prepare for a dangerous mission. They fall in love almost against their will, but soon recognise in each other the love of their lives. When they have to separate, we find out that James works for the British Secret Service. He’s involved in a mission in Somalia to track down a source for suicide bombers infiltrating Europe. Danielle ‘Danny’ Flinders is a bio-mathematician working on a deep sea diving project to support her theory about the origin of life on our planet. Soon, they are worlds apart. James is taken hostage by Jihadist fighters and has no way of contacting Danny, and she has to go down to the bottom of the ocean in her submersible, not even knowing if James is still alive...

REVIEWS Submergence - Swimming against the tide

TOMB RAIDER (2018)
Starring Alicia Vikander, Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Daniel Wu, Hannah John-Kamen and Alexandre Willaume-Jantzen. Directed by Roar Uthaug.

Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.

REVIEWS Tomb Raider - Lacking action in favour of an extended origin story

TULIP FEVER (2017)
Starring Alicia Vikander, Dane Dehaan, Zach Galifianakis, Judi Dench, Christoph Waltz, Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger, Matthew Morrison, Cara Delevingne and Tom Hollander. Directed by Justin Chadwick.

An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam.

REVIEWS Tulip Fever - Symptoms include nausea and irritability

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (2016)
Starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz. Directed by Derek Cianfrance.

Tom and Isabel, a lighthouse-tending couple, stumble upon a boat carrying a dead man and a baby. Tom and Isabel decide to raise the child as their own, with emotionally tortuous consequences.

REVIEWS The Light Between Oceans - Melodramatic and messy

THE DANISH GIRL (2016)
Starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw and Matthias Schoenaerts. Directed by Tom Hooper.

The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener, whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a ground-breaking journey to become one of the world’s first transgender women, Lili Elbe.

REVIEWS The Danish Girl - A woeful film with wasted potential

BURNT (2015)
Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Brühl, Riccardo Scamarcio, Sam Keeley, Alicia Vikander, Matthew Rhys, Lily James and Uma Thurman. Directed by John Wells.

Chef Adam Jones had it all – and lost it. A two-star Michelin rockstar with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out, and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste. To land his own kitchen and that third elusive Michelin star though, he’ll need the best of the best on his side, including the beautiful Helene.

REVIEWS Burnt - Undercooked

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Luca Calvani, Sylvester Groth, Hugh Grant, Jared Harris, Christian Berkel and Misha Kuznetsov. Directed by Guy Ritchie.

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organisation, which is bent on destabilising the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organisation, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.

REVIEWS The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - A cracking and delectibe 60s spy romp
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - A new spin on a classic

EX MACHINA (2015)
Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander. Directed by Alex Garland.

Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world’s largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world’s first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

REVIEWS Ex Machina - A new science fiction classic is born

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (2015)
Starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson and Joanna Scanlan. Directed by James Kent.

A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

REVIEWS Testament of Youth - A eulogy to innocence
Testament of Youth - Love in a time of war

SEVENTH SON 3D (2015)
Starring Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Ben Barnes, Kit Harington, Alicia Vikander, Olivia Williams and Djimon Hounsou. Directed by Sergei Bodrov.

In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more. Master Gregory is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin, centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance, only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory and his new apprentice, Tom Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son.

REVIEWS Seventh Son - An uninspiring action fantasy

SON OF A GUN (2014)
Starring Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander and Jacek Koman. Directed by Julius Avery.

After a chance encounter, JR finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia’s most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch. But protection comes at a price; Lynch and his crew have plans for their young protégé and soon JR’s debt is called in. Outside, JR must help secure Lynch’s freedom, staging a daring prison break. As a reward, he’s invited to join the crew as they plan a series of heists that promise to deliver millions. But as things start to go wrong, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues and JR soon finds himself on a collision course with his former mentor, unsure of whom he can trust. A visceral, edge-of-your-seat heist thriller, 'Son Of A Gun' promises a uniquely Australian take on the genre, with Ewan McGregor as you’ve never seen him before.

REVIEWS Son Of A Gun - Brenton Thwaites' candid confession
Son of a Gun - Action-packed Aussie thrill ride

ANNA KARENINA (2013)
Starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kelly MacDonald, Matthew MacFadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Alicia Vikander, Olivia Williams and Emily Watson. Directed by Joe Wright.

The timeless story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, while illuminating the lavish society that was imperial Russia. The time is 1874. Vibrant and beautiful, Anna Karenina has what any of her contemporaries would aspire to; she is the wife of Karenin, a high-ranking government official to whom she has bourne a son, and her social standing in St. Petersburg could scarcely be higher. En route to Moscow Anna makes the acquaintance of Countess Vronsky, who is then met at the train station by her son, the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky. When Anna is introduced to Vronsky, there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot – and will not – be ignored.

REVIEWS Anna Karenina - A Russian classic reinvented