The Beat Beneath My Feet, 2014. Directed by John Williams. Starring Luke Perry, Nicholas Galitzine, Lisa Dillon, Verity Pinter, James Tarpey, Simon Lowe. SYNOPSIS: A boy receives guitar lessons from a washed-up rock god living in the council flat below his, keeping it a secret from his God-fearing mother and the bullies that torment him […]

The US Box Office Report for week commencing 3rd October 2014… It was a fiercely fought competition over the weekend between the big budget thriller Gone Girl and the low budget horror Annabelle, with the latter seemingly on point to take the number one spot. But it was Fincher’s adaptation that eventually topped the chart in […]

Neil Calloway begins his new weekly column looking at the state of ‘British’ cinema in 2014… According to a report in The Sunday Times, UK cinema audiences were down 8% on last year this summer, with only The Inbetweeners 2 and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (both sequels AND based on material from elsewhere) […]

Kat Kourbeti chats with writer-director Jane Spencer about The Ninth Cloud… This year’s Raindance Film Festival has marked the return of fantastic independent cinema, with projects spanning all categories from documentaries and shorts to feature films from all over the world. We got to chat with writer-director of The Ninth Cloud, Jane Spencer, about her […]

Excuse My French, 2014 Written and directed by Amir Salama Starring Ahmed Dash, Hani Adel, Kinda Allouch, Ahmed Helmy   SYNOPSIS: A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he’s a Muslim. There is a lot to be said for […]

Bypass, 2014 Written and directed by Duane Hopkins Starring George MacKay, Benjamin Dilloway, Charlotte Spencer, Lara Peake, Matt Cross SYNOPSIS: Tim is a good kid. Tim is a criminal. Duane Hopkin’s Bypass is one of those movies that displays a “slice of real life”. Nothing in the movie is manufactured to fit film standards, plot threads […]

The Ninth Cloud, 2014. Starring Michael Madsen, Megan Maczko, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Sabina Akhmedova, Leo Gregory, Wendy Thomas, Elana Krausz, Julia Verdin, Meredith Ostrom. SYNOPSIS: A dreamer named Zena (Megan Maczko) clings onto her idealistic views of philosophy, art, poetry and love as she makes her life in 1990s London, running away from her painful past. […]

Owen Rhys breaks down the first trailer for Taken 3, directed by Olivier Megaton (Taken 2), written by Luc Besson (Lucy) and with a cast that includes Liam Neeson (A Walk Among the Tombstones), Famke Janssen (X-Men: The Last Stand), Maggie Grace (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove) and Sam Spruell (Snow […]

The Maze Runner, 2014. Directed by Wes Ball. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Patricia Clarkson, Aml Meen and Ki Hong Lee. SYNOPSIS: Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) wakes up in a valley surrounded by other boys, remembering nothing from before this very moment except his name. As Alby (Aml Meen) and Newt (Thomas […]

The Riot Club, 2014 Directed by Lone Scherfig. Starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Holliday Grainger, Olly Alexander, Jessica Brown Findlay, Ben Schnetzer, Tom Hollander, Sam Reid, Freddie Fox, Natalie Dormer, Sam Reid, Jack Farthing and Matthew Beard. SYNOPSIS: Two freshers at Oxford University are selected to be part of an elite dining society, […]