Director: Jeff Nichols Cast: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Martin Csokas, Nick Kroll, Will Dalton, Michael Shannon Certificate: 12a Running time: 123 mins Release date: February 3rd The great Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation fame once said “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing”. It seems Jeff Nichols didn’t get the memo when he decided […]
Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner Certificate: 18 Running Time: 117 minutes Release Date: January 27th Drugs are bad…but they’re also kinda good. There, the overarching thematic purpose of T2 Trainspotting has been effectively summarised and there’s little need to go into further detail. That’s not to say […]
Director: Kirsten Johnson Certificate: Club Running Time: 101 minutes Release Date: January 27th In the opening two scenes of Cameraperson, the off-screen presence of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson is felt in two distinct ways. In the first, filmed in rural Bosnia, a frantic handheld camera finds what could be the perfect composition of a shepherd and […]
Director: Mel Gibson Cast: Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Luke Bracey, Vince Vaughan, Sam Worthington, Rachel Griffiths and Hugo Weaving Certificate: 16 Running Time: 139 minutes Release Date: January 27 Throw your stones at Mel Gibson the human being if you must, but there’s no denying that the man has presence. One only needs look at […]
Director: Pablo Larraín Cast: Natalie Portman, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt Certificate: 15a Running Time: 99 minutes Release Date: January 20th Jackie arrives in cinemas the same day as the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States of America. It’s fitting, and oddly prescient, as it provides one of the best […]
Director: M. Night Shyamalan Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley Certificate: 15A Running time: 117 mins Release date: 20th January 2017 There’s a phenomenon that occurs in the world of ‘bad’ movies. Films like Birdemic or The Room, for example, were made with the highest artistic intentions; these people were trying to make a […]
Director: Kenneth Lonergan Cast: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Gretchen Mol Certificate: 15a Running Time: 137 minutes Release Date: January 13th There’s a humour in death and loss. It’s not immediately apparent at a time of grief but human nature and our innate clumsiness in dealing makes it inevitable. With his new film Manchester […]
Director: Damien Chazelle Cast: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, John Legend, Rosemary DeWitt, J.K. Simmons Certificate: PG Running Time: 128 minutes Release Date: January 13th Given its ‘you will bleed for your craft’ message, it’s easy to imagine that Whiplash director Damien Chazelle has a pretty complicated history with music. A former jazz drummer himself, he funnelled […]
Director: Ben Affleck Cast: Ben Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Chris Messina, Chris Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Elle Fanning, Sienna Miller Certificate: 15A Running time: 128 minutes Release date: January 13th Some people just don’t look right in a hat. Ben Affleck, he of tall muscular frame and chiselled jawline, appears surprisingly awkward beneath many a trilby as […]
Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Ciaran Hinds, Issey Ogata Certificate: 15A Runtime: 161 minutes Release Date: January 1st A key tenet of poststructuralist theory is the idea of absence as presence, that the lack of something in a text can be as meaningful as what is presented there in abundance. […]
Director: Gareth Edwards Cast: Felicity Jones, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Riz Ahmed and Donnie Yen Certificate: 12a Running Time: 133 minutes Release Date: December 15th An inherent iciness hangs over each and every frame of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. This is fine, for let us not pretend that this ‘saga’ is […]
Directors: Josh Gordon and Will Speck Cast: Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn, Jennifer Aniston Certificate: 16 Running time: 105 mins Release date: December 7th Search Party, a movie starring T.J. ‘I’m In Everything’ Miller that sat on the shelf for two years before a quiet release in America in May (it hit here a year […]
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Blake Jenner, Woody Harrelson Certificate: 15a Running Time: 99 minutes Release Date: 28th November There has been a sneaking suspicion in recent years that teen movies have been getting a little too grown up for their own good. Earnestness has been creeping in in place of awkwardness and […]
Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Matthew Goode, Lizzy Caplan Certificate: 12a Running Time: 124 minutes Release Date: November 25th Huh. For a film with such pre-loaded baggage, the last thing you’d expect it to be this forgettable. Even putting aside the on-set ‘did they/didn’t they?’ sexual antics, you can’t help […]