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,…
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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…
Anthropid
Director: Sean Ellis Starring: Jamie Dorman, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Marcin Dorocinski, Alena Mihulová Written by: Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin Running Time: 120 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 9th September 2016 Real life stories of extraordinary courage and heroism have always been and will probably always be, an obvious…
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…
Swallows And Amazons
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Starring: Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly McDonald, Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch, Harry Enfield, Jessica Hynes Written by: Andrea Gibb and (based on the book) Arthur Ransome Running Time: 97 mins Cert: PG Release date: 19th August 2016 If you are of a certain age, as I am, you will remember the…
Jason Bourne
Director: Paul Greengrass Starring: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed Written by: Paul Greengrass, Christopher Rouse and (based on the characters created) Robert Ludlum Running Time: 123 mins Cert; 12A Release date: 27th July 2016 Bourne is back! Not the lacklustre replacement on from The Bourne Legacy but…
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