Director: Jeremy Saulnier Starring: Macon Blair, Amy Hargreaves, Devin Ratray, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb Written by: Jeremy Saulnier Running Time: 90 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 2nd May 2014 Blue Ruin should be subtitled Blood Bath In Small Town America because this low budget independent thriller may not have the big names or big studio behind…
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Pompeii
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson Starring: Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jared Harris, Jessica Lucas. Written by: Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler and Michael Robert Johnson Running Time: 105 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 30th April 2014 Pompeii shouldn’t work. It’s directed by a man whose contribution to cinema has been…
Transcendence
Director: Wally Pfister Starring: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, Cole Hauser Written by: Jack Paglen Running Time: 119 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 25th April 2014 It is official. Transcendence is a total flop, both financially and critically. Having been universally panned, the audience in the States have…
The Other Woman
Director: Nick Cassavetes Starring: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicki Minaj, Don Johnson Written by: Melissa Stack Running Time: 109 mins Cert: 12A Release Date: 23rd April 2014 Before I get right into the rant that I feel coming on, I have to say that I know I don;’t fit the demographic…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Director: Marc Webb Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Felicity Jones, Sally Field, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore Written by: (Screen story also) Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner, (screen story only) James Vanderbilt, (based on the characters created) Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Running Time: 142 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 16th…
The Last Days On Mars
Director: Ruairi Robinson Starring: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams, Johnny Harris, Tom Cullen Written by: Clive Dawson and (based on the short story) Sydney J. Bounds Running Time: 98 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 11th April 2014 Films with the word “Mars” in them always seem to signpost disaster. Even when the…
The Quiet Ones
Director: John Pogue Starring: Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke, Erin Richards, Rory Fleck-Byrne Written by: Craig Rosenberg, Oren Moverman, John Pogue and (based on the screenplay) Tom de Ville Running Time: 98 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 10th April 2014 Those who are regular readers will know that I have soft spot for Hammer…
Half Of A Yellow Sun
Director: Biyi Bandele Starring: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Boyega, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle Written by: Biyi Bandele and (based on the book) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Running Time: 111 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 11th April 2014 Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, Half Of A Yellow Sun has plenty of…
The Raid 2
Director: Gareth Evans Starring: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Donny Alamsyah, Arifin Putra, Julie Estelle Written by: Gareth Evans Running Time: 150 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 11th April 2014 In 2012, an action thriller from Indonesia, directed by a Welsh man, took the genre, picked it up and smacked it, very hard, on the bottom. That…
Calvary
Director: John Michael McDonagh Starring: Brendan Gleason, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aiden Gillen, Dylan Moran, M. Emmet Walsh, Isaach De Bankole Written by: John Michael McDonagh Running Time: 100 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 11th April 2014 In 2011, John Michael McDonagh made a hugely impressive feature debut with The Guard. So now comes his second film and if…
Rio 2
Director: Carlos Salanha Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, Andy Garcia, Will.i.am, Bruno Mars, Leslie Mann Written by: Don Rhyman and (also characters created) Carlos Salanha Running Time: 101 mins Cert: U Release date: 4th April 2014 Once again, I am happy to hand over my reviewing to the far more professional and talented Holly…
Noah
Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connolly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman Written by: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel Running Time: 139 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 4th April 2014 Let’s get this off the bat. Noah is absolutely bonkers. If you think you are going to get some religious epic…
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