Side by Side, 2012. Written and Directed by Christopher Kenneally. SYNOPSIS: A documentary exploring the history, process and workflow of photochemical filmmaking and the digital revolution. Side by Side is a must for anyone with an interest in the history of movies and the process of making them regardless of your background knowledge of the […]

Taken 2, 2012. Directed by Olivier Megaton.Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and Rade Šerbedžija. SYNOPSIS: In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. When Taken came out back in 2008 nobody knew it would go on to […]

Cloud Atlas, 2012. Directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski.Starring Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Keith David, James D’Arcy, Xun Zho, Doona Bae and Zhu Zhu. SYNOPSIS: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, […]

Fire in the Blood, 2012. Written and Directed by Dylan Mohan Gray. SYNOPSIS: An exploration of how the Western pharmaceutical companies have created a monopoly over medicine. Dylan Mohan Gray’s investigation spirals outward from the AIDS crisis on the African continent when PHARMA companies blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs. As a medium for entertainment, […]

Side by Side, 2012. Written and Directed by Christopher Kenneally. SYNOPSIS: A documentary investigating the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. The struggle between the old and the new is something which has plagued cinema since the beginning; colour vs. black and white, sound vs. silent and widescreen vs. fullscreen. […]

Lore, 2012. Directed by Cate Shortland. Starring Saskia Rosendahl, Nick Holaschke, Nele Trebs, Mika Seidel, André Frid, Urdina Lardi and Hans-Jochen Wagner. SYNOPSIS: Following the fall of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945 and the imprisonment of her senior SS parents, 14 year old Lore leads her young siblings from their home northwards […]

I Give It a Year, 2013. Written and Directed by Dan Mazer.Starring Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall, Anna Farris, Simon Baker, Minnie Driver, Stephen Merchant and Olivia Coleman. SYNOPSIS: Dan Mazer’s Brit rom-com examines the various trials and tribulations of newlyweds Nat and Josh in their first year of marriage. You wouldn’t expect the producer behind […]

A Good Day to Die Hard, 2013. Directed by John MooreStarring Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.  SYNOPSIS:An old man looks for his son in Russia, who’s a spy in the centre of a massive political conspiracy. The best thing about A Good Day to Sigh Hard is that it knows […]

What Richard Did, 2012. Directed by Lenny AbrahamsonStarring Jack Reynor, Roisin Murphy, Sam Keeley and Lars Mikkelsen SYNOPSIS:An ambitious 6th-form student’s life is changed when a night out ends in tragedy. ‘What Richard Did‘ is a loaded title. It’s in the past tense. It makes everything before the ‘act’ feel similarly long gone. Like a […]

Side Effects, 2013. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.Starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. SYNOPSIS: A young woman’s world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects. There’s a great film waiting to be made about our pill popping society and the abhorrent lack of ethics on display from […]