Director: Ben Wheatley Starring: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Raynor, Michael Smiley, Sam Reily, Noah Taylor Written by: Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley Running Time: 90 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 31st March 2017 There is absolutely no denying it: Ben Wheatley is one of the most exciting British directors working…
Tag: thriller
Ghost In The Shell
Director: Rupert Sanders Starring: Scarlett Johansson, ‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano, Pilou Asbeak, Juliette Binoche, Michael Carmen Pitt, Chin Han. Written by: James Moss, William Wheeler, Ehren Kruger and (based on the comic ‘The Ghost in the Shell’) Masamune Shirow Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 27th March 2017 Even before this film started filming, the controversy surrounded…
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,…
John Wick: Chapter 2
Director: Chad Stehelski Starring: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane, Ruby Rose, Common, Franco Nero, Laurence Fishburne, Claudia Gerini, John Leguizamo. Written by: (based on the characters created) Derek Kolstad Running Time: 122 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 17th February 2017 Back in 2014, John Wick was the surprise sleeper hit of that year, a full-on…
XXX: Return of Xander Cage
Director: D.J. Caruso Starring: Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Toni Collette, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Rory McCann, Samuel L. Jackson Written by: Rich Wilkes and (based on the characters created) F. Scott Frazier Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 19th January 2017 Back in 2002, I attended the UK…
Allied
Director: Robert Zemeckis Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Lizzie Caplan, Simon McBurney, Matthew Goode. Written by Steven Knight Running Time: 124 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 25th November 2016 What more could film lovers want? A new Robert Zemeckis film with two screen presences who are both thrilling to watch, in a romantic…
Jack Reacher – Never Go Back
Director: Edward Zwick Starring: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper Written by: Richard Wenk, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and (based on the novel ‘Never Go Back’) Lee Child Running Time: 118 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 20th October 2016 In 2010, Tom Cruise brought to the screen…
The Girl On The Train
Director: Tate Taylor Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez Written by: Erin Cressida Wilson and (based on the novel) Paula Hawkins Running Time: 112 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 5th October 2016 Sisters are doing it for themselves. This has definitely been the year when females…
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…
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