Director: Tate Taylor Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez Written by: Erin Cressida Wilson and (based on the novel) Paula Hawkins Running Time: 112 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 5th October 2016 Sisters are doing it for themselves. This has definitely been the year when females…
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Deepwater Horizon
Director: Peter Berg Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Kate Hudson, Gina Rodriguez, James DuMont, Dylan O’Brien, Douglas M. Griffin Written by: Matthew Michael Carnahan, (also screen story) Matthew Sand, (based on the article) David Rohde and Stephanie Saul Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 30th September 2016 Back in the 70’s, the…
Swiss Army Man
Directors: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Antonia Ribero, Timothy Eulich, Richard Gross, Marika Casteel Written by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Running Time: 97 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 30th September 2016 There are some films that you can place neatly into a category. There are some that…
The Magnificent Seven
Director: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, Peter Sarsgaard Written by: Richard Wenk, Nic Pizzlatto, (based on the screenplay) Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni Running Time: 133 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 23rd September 2016 A few weeks back we had the laboured and incredibly dull remake of…
Ben-Hur
Director: Timur Bekmambetov Starring: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Morgan Freeman, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer, Pilou Asbæk, Sofia Black-D’Elia Written by: Keith R. Clarke, John Ridley and (based on the novel) Lew Wallace Running Time: 125 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 9th September 2016 There is a very famous review of the Charlton Heston 1959 version of Ben-Hur that…
Blair Witch
Director: Adam Wingard Starring: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry Written by: Simon Barrett Running Time: 89 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 16th September 2016 A word of warning for those thinking about going to Blair Witch, the sequel/reboot of the 1999 shocker The Blair Witch Project. If you…
Anthropid
Director: Sean Ellis Starring: Jamie Dorman, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Marcin Dorocinski, Alena Mihulová Written by: Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin Running Time: 120 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 9th September 2016 Real life stories of extraordinary courage and heroism have always been and will probably always be, an obvious…
War Dogs
Director: Todd Philips Starring: Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak, Bradley Cooper, Patrick St. Esprit, Shaun Toub Written by: Todd Phillips, Stephen Chin, Jason Smilovic and (based on the Rolling Stone article “Arms and the Dudes”) Guy Lawson Running Time: 114 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 26th August 2016 It’s hard to believe that during…
Swallows And Amazons
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Starring: Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly McDonald, Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch, Harry Enfield, Jessica Hynes Written by: Andrea Gibb and (based on the book) Arthur Ransome Running Time: 97 mins Cert: PG Release date: 19th August 2016 If you are of a certain age, as I am, you will remember the…
Pete’s Dragon
Director: David Lowery Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, Isiah Whitlock Jr Written by: David Lowery, Toby Halbrooks, (based on a screenplay) Malcolm Marmorstein, (based on a story) Seton I. Miller and S.S. Field Running Time: 103 mins Cert; PG Release date: 12th August 2016 Disney continues their…
Wiener-Dog
Director: Todd Solondz Starring: Keaton Nigel Clarke, Tracy Letts, Julie Delpy, Greta Gerwin, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn Written by: Todd Solondz Running Time: 88 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 12th August 2016 Todd Solondz is a marmite director. You either love his work or you really despise it. I have a love-hate…
Finding Dory
Director: Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane Starring: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Hayden Rolence, Kaitlin Olsen, Ty Burell, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Sigourney Weaver Written by: Victoria Strouse and (also original story) Andrew Stanton Running Time: 97 mins Cert: U Release date: 29th July 2016 When Finding Nemo was released…
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