Director: Dan Gilroy Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed, Ann Cusack, Michael Hyatt Written by: Dan Gilroy Running Time: 119 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 31st October 2014 There are some films that are hard to recommend, mainly because they are so awful that you wouldn’t wish them on your own worse…
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Love, Rosie
Director: Christian Ditter Starring: Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Tamsin Egerton, Christian Cooke, Jamie Winstone, Suki Waterhouse Written by: Juliette Towhidi and (based on the novel “Where Rainbows End”) Cecelia Ahern. Running Time: 102 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 22nd October 2014 Last week we had the macho romance of Nicholas Sparks with The Best Of Me….
Fury
Director: David Ayer Starring: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs Written by: David Ayer Running Time: 134 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 22nd October 2014 It’s not often that you leave a cinema completely shaken to your core but David Ayer’s brutal World War II drama set in a…
’71
Director: Yann Demange Starring: Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson, Charlie Murphy, Sam Hazeldine Written by: Gregory Burke Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 10th October 2014 They say never judge a book by its cover. In the case of ’71, they are absolutely right. Coming across as a political drama about…
The Maze Runner
Director: Wes Ball Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Aml Ameen, Ki Hong Lee, Blake Cooper Written by: Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, T.S. Nowlin and (based on the novel) James Dashner. Running Time: 113 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 10th October 2014 There has already been a host of Young Adult books series…
Violette
Director: Martin Provost Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Hiegel, Jacques Bonnaffé Written by: Martin Provost, Marc Abdelnour and René de Ceccatty Running Time: 139 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 3rd October 2014 Violette is a biopic about an ordinary woman who became an extraordinary writer. Without any previous knowledge, this, on the outside, seems like a fascinating tale…
Gone Girl
Director: David Fincher Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Connie Coons, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Kim Dickens Written by: (also based on the novel) Gillian Flynn Running Time: 149 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 2nd October 2014 This is going to be the hardest review I have ever written because I want to tell you…
The Equalizer
Director: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Mortez, David Harbour, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo Written by: Richard Wenk, (based on the television series created by) Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheim. Running Time: 131 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 26th September 2014 There was a television series in the late 80’s, early 90’s…
What We Did On Our Holiday
Directors: Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkins Starring: Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller, Amelia Bullmore, Celia Imrie Written by: Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkins Running Time: 95 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 26th September 2014 Fans of the hit TV comedy Outnumbered will probably find a welcoming place here in this charming British…
Magic In The Moonlight
Director: Woody Allen Starring: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Simon McBurney, Eileen Atkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver Written by: Woody Allen Running Time: 97 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 19th September 2014 There is a certain amount of reassurance when entering a new Woody Allen film. You know it’s going to be one of three…
A Most Wanted Man
Director: Anton Corbijn Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Willem DaFoe, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Grigoriy Dobrygin Written by: Andrew Bovell and (based on the novel) John Le Carre Running Time: 122 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 12th September 2014 Watching this slow-burning spy thriller that doesn’t exactly speed along, the one thing that impresses upon you more…
Pride
Director: Matthew Warchus Starring: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott, Joseph Gilgun, George MacKay Written by: Stephen Beresford Running Time: 120 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 12th September 2014 If there is one thing that British cinema is very good at producing, its feel-good comedy dramas based around real events. The…
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