Academy Award-winning British filmmaker and actor Richard Attenborough has passed away aged 90, his son has revealed today. Born in Cambridge in 1923, Attenborough began his career in his teens, working on the stage before making his screen debut in 1942’s In Which We Serve. After his breakthrough in 1947’s Brighton Rock, he would go […]

Life After Beth, 2014 Written and directed by Jeff Baena Starring Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gubler, Anna Kendrick SYNOPSIS: A young man’s recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her. Just as the […]

Der Samurai, 2014 Written and directed by Till Kleinert Starring Michel Diercks, Pit Bukowksi, Uwe Preuss, Kaja Blachnik, Ulrike Hanke-Haensch, Christopher Kane, Ulrike Bliefert SYNOPSIS: A transvestite with a samurai sword wreaks havoc around a small German town and it’s up to Jacob to stop him In a small and quiet German village, a wolf is starting […]

Open Windows, 2014 Directed by Nacho Vigalondo Starring Sasha Grey, Elijah Wood, Neil Maskell SYNOPSIS: An actress named Jill refuses to have dinner with Nick, a fan who won a date with her in an Internet contest. In return, a guy named Chord, posing as Jill’s campaign manager, helps Nick to follow in the footsteps of the […]

Villordsutch reviews series 8 episode 1 of Doctor Who – ‘Deep Breath’… “I hate being wrong in public. Everyone forget that happened.” Written by: Steven Moffat Directed by: Ben Wheatley Doctor Who returned to our screens last night with ‘Deep Breath’, with Peter Capaldi finally taking the keys to the TARDIS and the BBC gaving […]

Show Pieces, 2014 Written and directed by Mitch Jenkins Starring Siobhan Hewlett, Darrell D’Silva, Robert Goodman, Andrew Buckley, Ella Smith, Deak Teaser, Khandie Khisses, Alan Moore SYNOPSIS: Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins bring a “trilogy of terror” featuring “Act of Faith”, “Jimmy’s End” and “His Heavy Heart”. Comic book legend and famed adaptation hater Alan Moore […]

Hector and the Search for Happiness, 2014. Directed by Peter Chelsom. Starring Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgard, Toni Collette, Jean Reno and Christopher Plummer. SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist goes on a round the world journey to discover the secret to happiness. Every year a film like Hector and the Search for Happiness is released with […]

Villordsutch reviews Authority (Book 2 of The Southern Reach Trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer… In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened … Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ‘Annihilation’, the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head […]

Starry Eyes, 2014 Written and directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer Starring Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan, Fabianne Therese, Shane Coffey, Natalie Castillo, Pat Healy, Nick Simons, Maria Olsen, Marc Senter, Louis Dezseran SYNOPSIS: A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange […]

The Babadook, 2014 Directed by Jennifer Kent Starring Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Barbara West and Tim Purcell SYNOPSIS: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. It’s a nightmare on […]