Director: Craig Zobel Starring: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Philip Ettering, Ashlie Atkinson Written by: Craig Zobel Running Time: 90 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 22nd March 2013 The power of good cinema can be electrifying. It can make you emote like crazy. You can become so engrossed with the story that it will make you…
Tag: drama
The Paperboy
Director: Lee Daniels Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Macy Gray, David Oyelowo, Scott Glenn. Written by: Lee Daniels and (also book) Peter Dexter. Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 15th March 2013 Don’t be fooled by the title. The Paperboy isn’t about a teenager who has to get up…
Broken
Director: Rufus Norris Starring: Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear, Denis Lawson, Bill Milner Written by: Mark O’Rowe and (novel) Daniel Clay Running Time: 91 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 8th March 2013 Broken is one of those British films that comes out every so often that is so bleak, as you are…
Side Effects
Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, Vinessa Shaw. Written by: Scott Z. Burns Running Time: 106 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 8th March 2013 Steven Soderbergh has, since his debut back in 1989 with sex, lies and videotape, been a prolific and sometimes ground breaking film makers. Never once staying in…
Robot and Frank
Director: Jake Schreier Starring: Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler, James Marsden, Peter Sarsgaard, Jeremy Strong Written by: Christopher D. Ford Running Time: 89 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th March 2013 The one good thing about cinema is once in a while it throws up a movie that you don’t expect, that you listen…
Stoker
Director: Chan-wook Park Starring: Mia Wasikowski, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, Ralph Brown. Written by: Wentworth Miller Running Time: 98 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 1st March 2013 There has been much excitement buzzing around this first English language film from the director of Oldboy. The trailer looks incredibly weird yet enticing, while…
Arbitrage
Director: Nicholas Jarecki Starring: Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Laetita Casta, Nate Parker Written by: Nicholas Jarecki Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 1st March 2013 So you are looking at the titles of the latest releases, deciding what film to go and see. There’s a batch of new films…
Cloud Atlas
Directors: Tom Tykwer, Andy Waskowski, Lara Waskowski Starring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving. Written by: Tom Tykwer, Andy Waskowski, Lara Waskowski and (book) David Mitchell Running Time: 172 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 22nd February 2013 In a season of extremely long films…
Song For Marion
Director: Paul Andrew Williams Starring: Terence Stamp, Gemma Atherton, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Eccleston Written by: Paul Andrew Williams Running Time: 93 mins Cert: PG Release date: 22nd February 2013 I really wanted to like this film. It has a good cast of actors and is from the same man who gave us the disturbing but…
For Ellen
Director: So Yong Kim Starring: Paul Dano, Jon Heder, Jena Malone, Margarita Levieva, Shaylena Mandigo Written by: So Yong Kim Running Time 93 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 15th February 2013 Independent cinema has a knack of taking a simple storyline and making it into something rather special that big budget Hollywood fare manage to…
This Is 40
Director: Judd Apatow Starring: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow, Jason Segal, Megan Fox, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow Written by: Judd Apatow. Running Time: 134 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 14th February 2013 Knocked Up was a reasonably amusing tale of unexpected pregnancy and a big success for writer director Judd Apatow. After…
Beautiful Creatures
Director: Richard LaGravenese Starring: Alice Englert, Aiden Ehrenreich, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum Written by: Richard LaGravenese, (novel) Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Running Time: 124 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 13th February 2013 I openly admit to going into Beautiful Creatures with great trepidation. Now that Twilight has turned its lights off for…
