Director: Jalmari Helander Starring: Samuel. L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Mehmet Kurtulus, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, Jim Broadbent Written by: Jalmari Helander Running Time: 90 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th May 2015 Remember, before the days of lycra-wearing superheroes, when action movies were called high concept and usually involved someone completely outnumbered, out-gunned and…
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Top Five
Director: Chris Rock Starring: Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, J.B. Smoove, Romany Malco, Cedric The Entertainer Written by: Chris Rock Running Time: 102 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 8th May 2015 Chris Rock isn’t the star in the UK that he is in the States. Apart from appearing in Adam Sandler’s dire Grown Up…
Phoenix
Director: Christian Petzold Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge Written by: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki and (based on the novel “Le Retour des cendres”) Hubert Monteilhet Running Time: 98 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th May 2015 German cinema has been quietly growing in the background, behind the likes of French and the seemingly endless supply of…
Unfriended
Director: Leo Gabriadze Starring: Shelley Hennig, Matthew Bohrer, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Courtney Halverson Written by: Nelson Greaves Running Time: 83 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 1st May 2015 Going into Unfriended, I thought, here we go another gimmicky horror film that will probably have very little scares and characters you would care about. I…
Far From The Madding Crowd
Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple Written by: David Nicholls and (based on the novel) Thomas Hardy Running Time: 119 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 1st May 2015 When you are dealing with a novel like Thomas Hardy’s classic, Far From The Madding Crowd, you are never going…
The Falling
Director: Carol Morley Starring: Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Maxine Peake, Greta Scacchi, Anna Burnett, Monica Dolan Written by: Carol Morley Running Time: 102 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 24th April 2015 Some films will challenge you. Some you can sit back and let ride over you. The Falling doesn’t fall into any of those categories….
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Director: Joss Whedon Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johanssen, Jeremy Renner, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson Written by: Joss Whedon (based on the comic book) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Running Time: 142 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 23rd April 2015 Joss Whedon certainly knows…
A Little Chaos
Director: Alan Rickman Starring: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Jennifer Ehle, Steven Waddington Written by: Jeremy Brock, Alison Deegan and Alan Rickman Running time: 117 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 17th April 2015 If I was to say to you that Alan Rickman’s second film as a director is about gardening,…
The Last Five Years
Director: Richard LeGravenese Starring: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan Written by: Richard LeGravenese and (based on the musical play) Jason Robert Brown Running Time: 94 mins Cert: 12A Release date: Hailed as one of the best new musicals in years, I went into The Last Five Years with high expectations and once again, this is something…
Last Knights
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya Starring: Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Cliff Curtis Written by: Michael Konyves and Dove Sussman Running Time: 115 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 17th April 2015 A snowy backdrop where it never seems to end with the constantly falling white stuff. The clanking of metal against metal. Men walking in slow motion while…
Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story Of Dream Alliance
Director: Louise Osmond Written by: Louise Osmond Running Time: 85 mins Cert: PG Release date: 17th April 2015 There are some films you go into with low expectations, not really looking forward to sitting through it. Dark Horse, a film about my least favourite sport, horse racing, did not excite me one bit. Sometimes you…
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Starring: Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Anthony Anderson, Edward Herrmann, Gary Cole, Ed Lauder, Travis Tope Written by: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and (based on the 1976 film) Earl E. Smith Running Time: 86 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 17th April 2015 In 1976 a very low-budget exploitation horror emerged as a cult favourite, entitled The Town…
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