Simon Stone Movies

Genres: Drama    Mystery    Thriller   

Starring: Bea Viegas, Christine Martins, Ana Rosa Mendoça, Mazarela Martins, Nazário Baptista, ...

As someone with a long-standing interest in the history of East Timor,
I had mixed feelings about this film, and how the people and events
would be depicted. However, Robert Connolly did a great job,
considering all of the constraints of a limited budget that he had. It
did not go into minute detail about the historical events, but nor did
it dumb down and sex up.What happened ...

Genres: Crime    Drama    Mystery    Thriller   

Starring: Chris Haywood, Tatea Reilly, Laura Linney, Sean Rees-Wemyss, Gabriel Byrne, ...

There is much of the troubling darkness of Ray Lawrence's earlier work,
movies like Bliss and Lantana, present in Jindabyne, an Australian
rendition of Raymond Carver's short story 'So much water so close to
home'. From the first scenes - a sexually-motivated killing, implied
rather than shown - Jindabyne holds your attention despite its somewhat
slow pace and c...

Genres: Action    Drama    War   

Starring: Jack Finsterer, Travis McMahon, Simon Stone, Luke Ford, Tom Budge, ...

There is a certain amount of trepidation in approaching a war film in
the current climate of anti-war sentiment. Can you make it objective
and avoid the over-sentimental patriotism of so many American entries
in this genre?The makers of Kokoda seem to have thought long and hard about this. The moment in history depicted in this film is the invasion by the
Japanese into New Guinea i...