Director: Duncan Jones Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown Written by: Duncan Jones and Charles Leavitt (based on the Blizzard computer games, Warcraft) Running Time: 123 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 30th May 2016 Fantasy films and stories are something I find very hard to relate…
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X-Men: Apocalypse
Director: Bryan Singer Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters, Olivia Munn, Sophie Turner Written by: (also story) Simon Kinberg, (story) Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty, and Dan Harris Running Time: 144 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 18th May 2016 There is a scene half-way through X-Men: Apocalypse,…
Captain America: Civil War
Directors: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo Starring: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, William Hurt, Daniel Bruhl, Frank Grillo, Martin Freeman Written by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFreely, (based on the comic book) Mark Millar,…
Bastille Day
Director: James Watkins Starring: Idris Elba, Richard Madden, Kelly Reilly, Charlotte Le Bon, José Garcia, Eriq Ebouaney, Anatol Yusef, Jorge Leon Martinez Written by: Andrew Baldwin Running Time: 92 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 22nd April 2016 To say that Bastille Day, an action thriller set in Paris is a curiosity is a bit of an understatement. A…
The Jungle Book
Director: Jon Favreau Starring: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Esposito, Garry Shandling Written by: Justin Marks and (based on the book) Rudyard Kipling Running Time: 105 mins Cert: PG Release date: 15th April 2016 Going into the “live-action” remake of The Jungle Book, I was a little…
Eye In The Sky
Director: Gavin Hood Starring: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Northam, Monica Dolan Written by: Guy Hibbert Running Time: 102 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 15th April 2016 There are not many films when a scene involving buying bread can have you literally gripping your armrest, yet this is one of…
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Nick Frost, Rob Brydon, Sheridan Smith, Alexandra Roach Written by: Evan Spiliotopoulos, Craig Mazin and (based on the characters created) Evan Daugherty Running Time: 114 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 4th April 2016 Back in 2012, one of my first reviews here was for…
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Director: Zack Snyder Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Gia Gadot, Holly Hunter Written by: Chris Terrio, David S. Goyer, (based on the Batman characters created) Bob Kane, Bill Finger, (based on the Superman characters created) Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Running Time: 151 mins Cert:…
Disorder
Director: Alice Winocour Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy, Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant, Percy Kemp, Victor Pontecorvo Written by: Alice Winocour and (in collaboration) Jean-Stéphane Bron Running Time: 98 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 25th March 2016 With the current popularity in European thrillers now swarming our television, it seems that cinema has been somewhat forgotten when it comes to dark, brooding dramas….
London Has Fallen
Director: Babak Najafi Starring: Gerald Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Alon Aboutboul, Radha Mitchell Written by: Christian Gudegast, Chad St. John, (also story and based on the characters created) Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 3rd March 2016 At last! A comedy that is genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. A film…
Grimsby
Director: Louis Leterrier Starring: Sasha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Penelope Cruz, Isla Fisher, Rebel Wilson, Ian McShane, Scott Adkins Written by: Sasha Baron Cohen, Phil Johnston and Peter Baynham Running Time: 83 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 26th February 2016 Another week, another gross-out comedy that pushes the boundaries of good taste while at the same…
Deadpool
Director: Tim Miller Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ed Skrein, Michael Benyaer, Brianna Hilderbrand, Stefan Kapicic, Gina Carano Written by: Rhett Reece, Paul Wernick, (based on the characters created) Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza Running Time: 108 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 10th February 2016 After years of languishing in development hell, Ryan…
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