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LOCK-DOWN MOVIE REVIEW

I can relate to the boredom you must be feeling during this lock-down, so it got me thinking of ways to keep myself busy after all the long hours of forced sleep. I decided to share some of these movies with you, feedback are highly welcome. If you need the download link to any of the movies kindly drop a comment with the name of the movie you are interested in and I'll drop you the link, if you also happen to like this review and want us to continue giving you a good dose of movie updates kindly subscribe to the blog and drop a comment. P.S. its my first movie review, ENJOY!!!


1. Escape from Pretoria.
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa. Two white South Africans, imprisoned for working on behalf of the ANC, are determined to escape from the notorious white man's 'Robben Island', Pretoria Prison.

2. The Banker.
In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.

3. Just Mercy.
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned - including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.


 4. Miracle in celebration no. 7
A story of love between a mentally-ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his lovely six years old daughter. The prison would be their home. Based on 2013 Korean movie “Miracle in cell No. 7”.
5. My Spy

A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.

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