Director: Adam Wingard Starring: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser Written by: Simon Barrett Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 5th September 2014 Last year, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett reinvented the siege horror with the brilliantly inventive You’re Next. This year, they have managed to do…
Tag: drama
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Director: Lasse Hallstrom Starring: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon, Amit Shah, Farzana Dua Elahe. Written by: Steven Knight and (based on the novel) Richard C. Morais. Running Time: 122 mins Cert: PG Release date: 5th September 2014 Earlier this year we had Chef, a film that was pretty much food porn. Well…
Before I Go To Sleep
Director: Rowan Joffe Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff, Dean-Charles Chapman, Adam Levy Written by: Rowan Joffe and (based on the novel) S.J. Watson Running Time: 92 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 5th September 2014 Before I Go To Sleep takes a well-worn plot device, amnesia, to produce, what starts out as a…
The Police Officer’s Wife (Die Frau des Polizisten)
Director: Philip Groning Starring: Alexandra Finder, David Zimmerschied, Pia Kleemann, Chiara Kleemann Written by: Philip Groning Running Time: 175 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 22nd August 2014 Cinema can be many things. It can be a way of expressing feelings and emotions. It can be used as an artistic tool. A form of entertainment or it…
Into The Storm
Director: Steven Quale Starring: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Matt Walsh, Max Deacon, Nathan Kress, Alycia Debnam Carey. Written by: John Swetnam. Running Time: 89 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 21st August 2014 Picture the scene, if you would. A group of movie executives in an office deciding what their next project will be, when one…
What If
Director: Michael Dowse Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park, Ralf Spall, Adam Driver, Mackenzie Davis Written by: Elan Mastai, (based on the play “Toothpaste and Cigars”) T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi Running Time: 102 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 20th August 2014 What if they made a romantic comedy in which the characters actually spoke…
Blood Ties
Director: Guillaume Canet Starring: Clive Owen, Billy Crudup. Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, James Caan Written by: Guillaume Canet, James Gray, (based on the film “Les liens du sang”) Jacques Maillot, Pierre Chosson, Eric Veniard (and the novel “Deux freres, un flic, un truand”) Bruno Papet and Michel Papet Running Time: 127 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 15th August 2014 I went into…
Hector And The Search For Happiness
Director: Peter Chelsom. Starring: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgard, Jean Reno, Christopher Plummer. Written by: Maria von Heland, Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay and (novel “Le voyage d’Hector ou la recherche de bonheur”) François Lelord Running Time: 114 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 15th August 2014 What is the secret of happiness? That is exactly what Simon Pegg’s…
Wakolda
Director: Lucía Puenzo Starring: Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Florencia Bado, Elena Roger, Guillermo Pfening Written by: Lucía Puenzo Running Time: 93 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th August 2014 Titles to movies can sometimes tell you everything. A bit like telling you the plot before you enter the cinema. Lone Survivor is a perfect example. It doesn’t leave too much to…
Joe
Director: David Gordon Green Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Adriene Mishler, Brian Mays Written by: Gary Hawkins and (based on the novel) Larry Brown Running Time: 117 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 25th July 2014 Having sold his soul to Hollywood, director David Gordon Green, who had started life as…
Boyhood
Director: Richard Linklater Starring: Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Marco Perella, Steve Price Written by: Richard Linklater Running Time: 166 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 11th July 2014 <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/Ys-mbHXyWX4″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen> You’ve probably heard all about this already. A film that took 12 years to make, taking each year…
Begin Again
Director: John Carney Starring: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, Hailee Steinfeld, Catherine Keener, James Corden, Ceelo Green, Yasiin Bey Written by: John Carney Running Time: 104 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 11th July 2014 Back in 2006, John Carney directed a film that has captured the hearts of many, include mine, called Once. This simple…
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