Director: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, Robert Duvall, David Oyelowo. Written by: Christopher McQuarrie and (book: One Shot) Lee Child Running Time: 130 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 26th December 2012 Before this even hit the sound stage, there was huge controversy surrounding it. How can diminutive Hollywood superstar Tom…
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Pitch Perfect
Director: Jason Moore Starring: Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Camp, Skylar Astin. Written by: Kay Cannon and (book) Mickey Rapkin. Running Time: 112 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 21st December 2012 A few years ago, a US TV show stormed the network and the world and became flavour…
Life Of Pi
Director: Ang Lee Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gerard Depardieu, Tabu Written by: David Magee and (book) Yann Martel Running Time: 127 mins Cert: PG Release date: 20th December 2012 Cinema is often accused, by elitists, as just entertainment for the masses and is ignored as an art form. In some cases, this…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Director: Peter Jackson Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett Written by: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo Del Toro and (book) J.R.R. Tolkien Running Time: 169 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 13th December 2013 Sometimes reviewing a film that has already had so much written…
Seven Psychopaths
Director: Martin McDonagh Starring: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko Written by: Martin McDonagh Running Time: 110 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 5th December 2012 Every so often a film comes along that because of the prestige of the director and the cast, it has to be…
Rise Of The Guardians
Director: Peter Ramsey Starring: Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, Dakota Goyo Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire and (book) William Joyce Running Time: 97 mins Cert: PG Release date: 30th November 2012 Looks can be deceiving. Take the poster for Rise of the Guardians. A huge bearded man with tattoos in crossed armed,…
Trouble With The Curve
Director: Robert Lorenz Starring: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Robert Patrick, Matthew Lillard Written by: Randy Brown Running Time: 111 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 30th November 2012 Baseball movies just don’t sell in the UK. We don’t understand the game and so don’t understand the complexities of the terms used so…
Great Expectations
Director: Mike Newell Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Flemyng, Robbie Coltrane, Holliday Grainger Written by: David Nicholls and (book) Charles Dickens Running Time: 126 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 30th December 2012 If film has one limitation, it’s running times. No one wants to sit through a film that lasts 6…
End Of Watch
Director: David Ayer Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Martinez, David Harbour Written by: David Ayer Running Time: 109 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 23rd November 2012 The television schedules nowadays are crammed with police dramas, each of them trying to win audiences over with something a little different. So a new police…
Gambit
Director: Michael Hoffman Starring: Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman, Tom Courtney, Stanley Tucci, Cloris Leachman. Written by: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Running Time: 89 mins Cert 12A Release date: 21st November 2012 The Coen brothers are, without doubt, the most exciting film making team around. Time after time they have produced inventive, sometimes courageous films….
Silver Linings Playbook
Director: David O. Russell Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker Written by: David O. Russell and (book) Matthew Quick Running Time: 122 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 21st November 2012 Too often than not, the movies treat mental health issues in two ways: either as a form of ridicule…
Here Comes The Boom
Director: Frank Coraci Starring: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg Germann, Joe Rogan Written by: Kevin James, Allan Loeb and Rock Reuben Running Time: 105 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 9th November 2012 There is a written rule with reviewing films: never go into a film hating it before you start! That’s what happened…
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