Director: Elizabeth Banks Starring: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Hailee Steinfeld, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins Written by: Kay Cannon and (based on the characters created) Mickey Rapkin Running Time: 115 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 15th May 2015 The surprise smash of 2012 was a small-scale comedy about a cappella groups. Now, the…
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A Royal Night Out
Director: Julian Jarrold Starring: Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, Jack Raynor, Bel Powley, Roger Allam Written by: Trevor De Silva and Kevin Hook Running Time: 97 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 15th May 2015 When you go to a film and the poster proudly announces that it is “inspired by true events”, you expect…
Mad Max: Fury Road
Director: George Miller Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones. Written by: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris Running Time: 120 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 14th May 2015 A lot of water has passed under the bridge since we were last visited by Max Rockatansky. In fact…
Spooks: The Greater Good
Director: Bharat Nalluri Starring: Kit Harington, Peter Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Tuppence Middleton, Tim McInnerny, David Harewood Written by: Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent Running Time: 104 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 8th May 2015 TV spin-offs (popular shows that were given big screen treatments) always suffered from the same problem: taking something set in one…
Big Game
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…
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,…
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