Man Down, 2017. Directed by Dito Montiel. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Gary Oldman and Jai Courtney. SYNOPSIS: A former US Marine returns home after a traumatic tour of duty in Afghanistan and finds an America that’s just as much a battlefield as the country he’s left. “America, we have a problem!” is scrawled in […]
Movie Review – The Red Turtle (2016)
The Red Turtle, 2016. Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit. Featuring the voice talents of Emmanuel Garijo, Barbara Beretta, Tom Hudson, Baptiste Goy and Axel Deville. SYNOPSIS: A man is washed up on a desert island. It looks like paradise, but he needs to escape. He builds a raft and starts to sail away when something unseen […]
Movie Review – Interlude In Prague (2017)
Interlude In Prague, 2017. Directed by John Stephenson. Starring James Purefoy, Aneurin Barnard, Samantha Banks, Morfydd Clark, Adrian Edmondson, and Dervla Kirwan. SYNOPSIS: Celebrated 18th century composer Mozart is brought to Prague by powerful Baron Saloka and, while there, starts to compose a new opera. Despite being married, he also falls in love with young […]
Movie Review – Dough (2015)
Dough, 2015. Directed by John Goldschmidt. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Jerome Holder, Phil Davis and Pauline Collins. SYNOPSIS: In a London suburb, a family owned Jewish bakery is on its uppers, losing customers and under pressure to sell up to developers. Then baker Nat (Jonathan Pryce) loses his assistant, who goes to work for the nearby […]
Movie Review – Whisky Galore! (2016)
Whisky Galore!, 2016. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, Starring Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Ellie Kendrick, Kevin Guthrie, Fenella Woolgar and James Cosmo. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1941, rationing is in force and the residents of the Scottish island of Todday are faced with a nightmare. Their supply of whisky has run out and the island is completely dry. […]
DVD Review – Heal The Living (2016)
Heal The Living, 2016. Directed by Katelle Quillevere. Starring Emmanuelle Seigner, Tahar Rahim, Anne Dorval, and Gabin Verdet. SYNOPSIS: The lives of a number of people – a young man, his parents, a woman with a heart condition, medical staff – are all connected by a single accident. One that shatters a family and gives […]
Movie Review – It Comes At Night (2017)
It Comes At Night, 2017. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. SYNOPSIS: A small family – father, mother and teenage son – live in what appears to be an abandoned house. The windows are boarded up and, from the outside, there’s little sign […]
Exclusive Interview: Director John Madden on Miss Sloane
Freda Cooper chats with Miss Sloane director John Madden… Elizabeth Sloane lives and breathes politics. Miss Sloane the film seems to attract them like a magnet. It premiered in America just after the Presidential Election and arrives in the UK this week in the middle of our own General Election campaign. The film’s director, John Madden, spoke […]
Movie Review – The Levelling (2016)
The Levelling, 2016. Directed by Hope Dickson Leach. Starring Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, and Joe Blakemore. SYNOPSIS: Trainee vet Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns home to the family farm in Somerset following the death of her brother. She finds the farm in chaos and her father a shadow of his former self. Their relationship has […]
Movie Review – Unlocked (2017)
Unlocked, 2017. Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette, Michael Douglas and John Malkovich. SYNOPSIS: Former CIA interrogator Alice (Noomi Rapace) is working undercover in a London community centre. She’s reluctant to go back to her old job because of her failure to “unlock” a suspect, which resulted in terrorist attack which […]
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