Director: Aleksander Bach Starring: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zackery Quinto, Ciaran Hinds, Thomas Kretschman Written by: Michael Finch and (also story) Skip Woods Running Time: 96 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 28th August 2015 Films based on computer games have always been problematic. What may be exciting when played by an individual, doesn’t always translate to the…
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The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
Director: Tom Six Starring: Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Eric Roberts, Bree Olsen, Tom Six, Clayton Rohner Written by: Tom Six Running Time: 102 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 10th July 2015 I have to see all kinds of movies in order to bring you reviews and comments. Sometimes they are outstanding. Other times mediocre….
Housebound
Director: Gerard Johnstone Starring: Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru, Ross Harper, Cameron Rhodes Written by: Gerard Johnstone Running Time: 107 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 3rd July 2015 We all like surprises, so when a film comes along that you are not expecting much from, turns out to be a little gem, then…
Terminator Genisys
Director: Alan Taylor Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Matt Smith Written by: Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier, (based on the characters created) james Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. Running Time: 125 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 2nd July 2015 It’s been six years since the last Terminator film, Terminator: Salvation…
Knock Knock
Director: Eli Roth Starring: Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas, Ignacia Allamand, Aaron Burns, Colleen Camp Written by: Eli Roth, Guillermo Amoedo and Nicholas Lopez Running Time: 99 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 26th June 2015 It has to be said that the expectations for this film were very low. Firstly, the director, Eli…
Slow West
Director: John Maclean Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, Rory McCann Written by: John Maclean Running Time: 84 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 26th June 2015 The western is a well-worn genre, so tackling it in this day and age, you have to bring something new to the table. So to take…
Spy
Director: Paul Feig Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Jude Law, Alison Janney, Bobby Cannavale Written by: Paul Feig Running Time: 12o mins Cert: 15 Release date: 5th June 2015 I was beginning to worry a little about Melissa McCarthy’s career. What started out as promising in her scene stealing role in Bridesmaids,…
The Goob
Director: Guy Myhill Starring: Sienna Guillory, Liam Walpole, Sean Harris, Hannah Spearitt, Marama Corlett, Paul Popplewell Written by: Guy Myhill Running Time: 84 mins Cert: 18 Release date: 29th May 2015 The Goob is a coming-of-age film that, while being a low-budget British affair set in Norfolk, it feels like it wants to escape just being…
Mad Max: Fury Road
Director: George Miller Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones. Written by: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris Running Time: 120 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 14th May 2015 A lot of water has passed under the bridge since we were last visited by Max Rockatansky. In fact…
Big Game
Director: Jalmari Helander Starring: Samuel. L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Mehmet Kurtulus, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, Jim Broadbent Written by: Jalmari Helander Running Time: 90 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 8th May 2015 Remember, before the days of lycra-wearing superheroes, when action movies were called high concept and usually involved someone completely outnumbered, out-gunned and…
Unfriended
Director: Leo Gabriadze Starring: Shelley Hennig, Matthew Bohrer, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Courtney Halverson Written by: Nelson Greaves Running Time: 83 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 1st May 2015 Going into Unfriended, I thought, here we go another gimmicky horror film that will probably have very little scares and characters you would care about. I…
Last Knights
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya Starring: Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Cliff Curtis Written by: Michael Konyves and Dove Sussman Running Time: 115 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 17th April 2015 A snowy backdrop where it never seems to end with the constantly falling white stuff. The clanking of metal against metal. Men walking in slow motion while…
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