Director: Alex Proyas Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler, Courtney Eaton, Geoffrey Rush, Elodie Yung, Bryan Brown Written by: Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless Running Time: 126 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 17th June 2016 It’s been quite a while when I have seen a decent so-bad-it’s-good movie but I think I’ve found it. From the director of The…
Tag: Adventure
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows
Director: Dave Green Starring: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Tyler Perry, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson Written by: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, (based on the character created ) Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman Running Time: 112 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 30th May 2016 How is the best to describe…
The Angry Birds Movie
Directors: Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly Starring: (Voices only) Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, Sean Penn Written by: Jon Vitti, (story) John Cohen, Mikael Hed, Mikko Polla and based on the Rovio Entertainment game Running Time: 97 mins Cert: U Release date: 13th May 2016 It seems now that everything…
Warcraft: The Beginning
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…
Alice Through The Looking Glass
Director: James Bobin Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rhys Ifans, Matt Lucas, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Timothy Spall Written by: Linda Woolverton and (based on the books) Lewis Carroll Running Time: 113 mins Cert: PG Release date: 27th May 2016 It has taken six years for the…
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…
Midnight Special
Director: Jeff Nichols Starring: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Jaeden Lieberher, Adam Driver, Bill Camp, Scott Haze, Sam Shepard Written by: Jeff Nichols Running Time: 112 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th April 2016 Midnight Special, the fourth film from independent filmmaker, Jeff Nichols, comes at you like a film stuck in the 1970’s. A…
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…
10 Cloverfield Lane
Director: Dan Trachtenberg Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr, Suzanne Cryer Written by: Damien Chazelle, (also story) Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell Running Time: 103 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 18th March 2016 I am furious! Up to the final 10 minutes of this incredibly tense and gripping thriller, it was hitting all the right notes…
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