Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Wes Bentley Written by: Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan Running Time: 169 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 7th November 2014 Christopher Nolan has become one of those directors you genuinely look forward to watching his latest. He is certainly up there with Spielberg, Scorsese…
Tag: drama
Say When
Director: Lynn Shelton Starring: Keira Knightley, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Mark Webber, Ellie Kemper, Jeff Garlin Written by: Andrea Seigel Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 7th November 2014 There are some films in this world that are a welcoming escape from the outside and Say When is exactly that. An indie…
Mr Turner
Director: Mike Leigh Starring: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Karl Johnson, Ruth Sheen. Written by: Mike Leigh Running Time: 150 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 31st October 2014 Mike Leigh’s biopic of the last part of the life of one of Britain’s greatest artist, J.M.W. Turner, has been lauded with top awards and excellent…
Horns
Director: Alexandre Aja Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Mingella, Joe Anderson, Heather Graham, David Morse Written by Keith Bunin and (based on the book) Joe Hill Running Time: 120 mins Cert: 15 Release date 29th October 2014 You have got to give credit where credit is due. Daniel Radcliffe is trying his hardest to…
Nightcrawler
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…
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…
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