Alison Lesley

Alison has a BA in Literary and Cultural Studies and Creative Writing, and has just completed her BA Honours in Creative Practice Screenwriting.

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Pork Pie

Jon (Dean O’Gorman), a failing, homeless writer, teams up with Luke (James Rolleston) on the run after stealing a car, and Keira (Ashleigh Cummings), a vegan activist, to become accidental outlaws and unlikely friends. In a stolen yellow mini and trailed closely by police and a media frenzy, the trio attempt to travel the length of New Zealand as Jon desperately tries to reach his ex-fiancé to rec...

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The Zookeeper’s Wife

Based on a true story, The Zookeeper’s Wife follows the tale of the Warsaw zoo and its owners, the Zabinskis, during the Second World War. After the occupation of Warsaw, Antonina Zabinska (Jessica Chastain) and her husband Jan Zabinski’s (Johan Heldenbergh) zoo is liquidated and over-taken by chief Nazi zoologist Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl). To fight back against the Nazi’s, the Zabinski’s covertly ...

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Going in Style

Going In Style is a reboot of the 1979 film under the same title, which starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg. Three life-long friends, Joe (Michael Caine), Willie (Morgan Freeman) and Al (Alan Arkin), face financial and personal hardships when the company for whom they’ve worked for 30 years dissolves their pension fund. Inspired by a robbery he witnesses, and with the bank threateni...

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A Cure for Wellness

An ambitious young executive, Lockhart, (Dane Dehaan) is sent to a ‘wellness’ centre to retrieve his company’s CEO. Upon arrival, he realises the centre, run by the mysterious Volmer (Jason Isaacs) and set in an ancient castle perched above a village in the Swiss Alps, is possibly more dangerous than it appears. Directed by Gore Verbinski, A Cure For Wellness pays homage to the classic gothic narr...

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Planetarium

Planetarium, by Rebecca Zlotowski, follows American sisters, Laura (Natalie Portman) and Kate (Lily-Rose Depp), who travel to Paris in the 1930’s, as performing spiritualists and mediums. The pair performs a séance with innovative French producer André Korben (Emmanuel Salinger), who becomes obsessed with the sisters’ individual talents, and he offers Laura and Kate the chance to perform on film. ...

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Kong: Skull Island

Set in 1971, towards the end of the Vietnam War, a team of scientists and explorers take an escort of army personnel to an uncharted island in the Pacific, chasing the myth of monstrous pre-historic creatures and new biological discoveries. They soon discover the myths are true, and that if the group are to survive, they must get to the army’s extraction location at the north end of the island in ...

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