Director: Tommy Wirkola Starring: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Atherton, Famke Jenssen, Peter Stormare, Pihla Viitala, Derek Mears Written by: Tommy Wirkola Running Time: 88 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 27th February 2013 Remember the classic fairy tale about the two children left in the woods by their parents ans they come across a cottage made of sweets, only…
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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…
Mama
Director: Andy Muschietti Starring: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nelisse, Daniel Kash Written by: Neil Cross (and story) Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 22nd February 2013 There is nothing more creepy in a horror than a child or two. Look back in history and the…
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…
Side By Side
Director: Christopher Kenneally Starring: Keanu Reeves, George Lucas, James Cameron, Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch Written by: Christopher Kenneally Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 15th February 2013 There was nothing like going into a cinema and hearing that reassuring sound of a projector clicking continuously in the…
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…
A Good Day To Die Hard
Director: John Moore Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yuliya Snigir, Radivoje Bukvic, Mary Elizabeth Winstead Written by: Skip Woods and (certain original characters) Roderick Thorp Running Time: 97 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 14th February 2013 It’s 25 years since John McClane first donned that grubby vest and single-handledly beat Alan Rickman in Nakatomi…
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…
Warm Bodies
Director: Jonathan Levine Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Analeigh Tipton, Rob Corddry Wrtitten by: Jonathan Levine and (novel) Isaac Marion Running Time: 98 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th February 2013 I was a little skeptical when entering to see Warm Bodies. Was this to do to zombies what Twilight has done to vampires…
I Give It A Year
Director: Dan Mazar Starring: Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Ralf Spall, Simon Baker, Minnie Driver, Jason Flemyng, Olivia Colman. Written by: Dan Mazar Running Time: 97 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 8 February 2013 Regular readers will know that the genre I struggle with the most (apart from terrible modern horrors) are romantic comedies. They always…
Wreck-It Ralph
Director: Rich Moore Starring: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk Written by: Phil Johnston, Jennifer Lee, (story) Rich Moore and Phil Reardon. Running Time: 108 mins Cert: PG Release date: 8th February 2013 It seems mightily appropriate that Walt Disney, who recently acquired LucasFilms and the Star Wars franchise, along…
Hitchcock
Director: Sacha Gervasi Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlet Johansson, Danny Huston, Jessica Biel. Written by: John J. McLaughlin and (based on his book) Stephen Rebello. Running time:98 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th February 2013 Isn’t it typical? You wait for a film about Alfred Hitchcock to come along and like buses, two come…
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