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Deepwater Horizon

Director: Peter Berg Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Kate Hudson, Gina Rodriguez, James DuMont, Dylan O’Brien, Douglas M. Griffin Written by: Matthew Michael Carnahan, (also screen story) Matthew Sand, (based on the article) David Rohde and Stephanie Saul Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 30th September 2016 Back in the 70’s, the…

War Dogs

Director: Todd Philips Starring: Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak, Bradley Cooper, Patrick St. Esprit, Shaun Toub Written by: Todd Phillips, Stephen Chin, Jason Smilovic and (based on the Rolling Stone article “Arms and the Dudes”) Guy Lawson Running Time: 114 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 26th August 2016 It’s hard to believe that during…

Eddie The Eagle

Director: Dexter Fletcher Starring: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Jo Hartley, Keith Allen, Mark Benton, Tim McInnerny, Christopher Walken Written by: Sean Macaulay and (also story) Simon Kelton Running Time: 106 mins Cert: PG Release date: 1st April 2016 Who would have thought that the biggest joke of the 1988 Winter Olympics would become the basis…

The Finest Hours

Director: Craig Gillespie Starring: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, Kyle Gallner Written by: Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, (based on the book) Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias Running Time: 117 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 19th February 2016 It seems that Disney are getting into a…

Trumbo

Director: Jay Roach Starring: Bryan Cranston, Diane Ladd, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alan Turyk, Louis C.K., Ellie Fanning, John Goodman Written by: John McNamara and (based on the book) Bruce Cook Running Time: 124 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 5th February 2016 Trumbo is a curious movie. Telling the story of one of Hollywood’s best…

Spotlight

Director: Tom McCarthy Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian D’Arcy James, Stanley Tucci. Billy Crudup Written by: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy Running Time: 128 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 29th January 2016 Spotlight is a rarity. An adult film dealing with a lurid and shocking subject matter that never…

The Revenant

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck, Paul Anderson. Written by: Paul L. Smith, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and (based on part of the book) Michael Punke Running Time: 156 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 15th January 2016 There is an old saying about suffering for your art. If…

The Danish Girl

Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Amber Heard, Sebastian Koch, Matthias Schoenaerts Written by: Lucinda Coxon and (based on the novel) David Ebershoff Running Time: 119 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 1st January 2016 You can tell that it’s awards season once again as we get extremely well made, well acted,…

In The Heart Of The Sea

Director; Ron Howard Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley Written by: (also story) Charles Leavitt, (story) Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and (based on the book “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex”) Nathaniel Philbrick Running Time: 122 mins Cert: 12A Release date:…

Bridge Of Spies

Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Scott Shepherd, Austin Stowell, Jesse Plemons Written by: Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen Running Time: 141 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 26th November 2015 The pleasure of going to see so many movies is that, every so often, one comes along…

Everest

Director: Baltasar Kormakur Starring: Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley. Written by: William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy Running Time: 121 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 18th September 2015 The fascination with trying to conquer Everest has led to many trying and many lives lost. So in 1992,…

Director: Rupert Goold Starring: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia, Ethan Suplee, Gretchen Mol, Robert John Burke Written by: Rupert Goold, David Kajganich and (based on the novel) Michael Finkle. Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 17th July 2015 Stories about killers recounting the events have always been fascinating in a…