Director: Alex Kurtzman Starring: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Written by: David Koepp, Christopher McQuairre, Dylan Kussman, (screen story) Jon Spaihts, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet Running Time: 110 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 9th June 2017 The Mummy was one of Universal’s stable characters in the 1930’s,…
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Alien: Covenant
Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez Written by: John Logan, Dante Harper, (story) Jack Paglen, Michael Green, (based on the characters created) Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett Running Time: 122 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 12th May 2017 Back in 2012, the excitement…
Life
Director: Daniel Espinosa Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare Written by: Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Running Time: 103 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 24th March 2017 They say there are no original ideas in the movies anymore. The stories are borrowed from one source or another. Life doesn’t just borrow an idea,…
Get Out
Director: Jordan Peele Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, LilRel Howery. Written by: Jordan Peele Running Time: 104 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 17th March 2017 It takes a writer or director of some considerable talent to take an oft-trodden genre and inject a new lease of…
Shut In
Director: Farren Blackburn Starring: Naomie Watts, Oliver Platt, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Crystal Balint, Alex Braunstein, David Cubitt Written by: Christina Hodson Running Time: 91 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 24th February 2017 Shut In follows a long line of thrillers that use being trapped or locked in a building as a backdrop for scares,…
Blair Witch
Director: Adam Wingard Starring: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry Written by: Simon Barrett Running Time: 89 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 16th September 2016 A word of warning for those thinking about going to Blair Witch, the sequel/reboot of the 1999 shocker The Blair Witch Project. If you…
Don’t Breathe
Director: Fede Alvarez Starring: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Emma Bercovici Written by: Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues Running Time: 88 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 9th September 2016 The last time director Fede Alvarez helmed a movie, it was the reboot of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead, a film that I was…
Lights Out
Director: David F. Sandberg Starring: Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia, Billy Burke, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Andi Osho Written by: Eric Heisserer and (based on his short film) David F. Sandberg Running Time: 81 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 19th August 2016 Everyone at some point in their lives has had a fear of the dark. Or a…
The Conjuring 2
Director: James Wan Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente, Maria Doyle Kennedy Written by: David Johnson, (also story) Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes and James Wan Running Time: 134 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 13th June 2016 In 1977, the year of Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee, Elvis’s death and…
Son of Saul
Director: László Nemes Starring: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak Written by: László Nemes and Clara Royer Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 29th April 2016 There are some films that you have a genuine fear of watching. It may be because you have heard about the horrific content or the subject matter might be…
The Forest
Director: Jason Zada Starring: Natalie Dorman, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Noriko Sakura, Eoin Macken Written by: Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwall and Ben Ketai Running Time: 93 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 26th February 2016 If you go down to the woods today, you may be in for a bit of a bore. For The Forest, with all its…
Bone Tomahawk
Director: S. Craig Zahler Starring: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, Evan Janigkeit, David Arquette. Written by: S. Craig Zahler Running Time: 132 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 19th February 2016 The western is a genre that has been with us since the birth of cinema (The Great Train Robbery being…
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