The Next Three Days, 2010. Directed by Paul Haggis. Starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Nesson, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde, Lennie James, Aisha Hinds, Daniel Stern, RZA and Jason Beghe. SYNOPSIS: After his wife Lara is arrested for a murder she claims she didn’t commit, John Brennan (Russell Crowe) sets about trying to prove her […]

Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), 2010. Written and Directed by Jan Svankmajer. Starring Václav Helšus and Klára Issová. SYNOPSIS: A married man, bored of his job retreats into his dreams to live a double life with a beautiful woman. He becomes addicted to these dreams, quitting his job and renting a private room so that […]

Kaboom, 2010. Written and Directed by Gregg Araki. Starring Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett and James Duval. SYNOPSIS: Kaboom focuses on Smith, a film student studying at college, lusting after his dumb-surfer room-mate, hooking up with British acquaintance London and hanging out with best friend Stella. He keeps getting recurring dreams of walking down […]

Predators, 2010. Directed by Nimród Antal. Starring Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alica Braga, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Oleg Taktarov and Louis Ozawa Changchien. SYNOPSIS: A small group of humans find themselves on a hostile extraterrestrial world which acts as a game preserve for the merciless alien species known as the Predators. […]

The Social Network, 2010. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer and Max Minghella. SYNOPSIS: A biopic on Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of popular social networking site Facebook. “Who on earth would want to make a film about Facebook?” was my first remark upon […]

127 Hours, 2010. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Clémence Poésy and Lizzy Caplan. SYNOPSIS: The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, who found himself trapped by a boulder for five days in May 2003. Slumdog Millionaire had phenomenal success, winning eight Oscars and seven BAFTA’s to name just […]

The Kids Are All Right, 2010. Directed by Lisa Cholodenko. Starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson. SYNOPSIS: Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their birth father into their family life. A family drama with a bit of a shake up, The Kids Are All Right stars Annette Bening […]

Black Swan, 2010. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. SYNOPSIS: A sophisticated psychological thriller set in the milieu of the New York Ballet. Darren Aronofsky has carved out a career as an inventive and interesting director making films such as Pi, Requiem for a Dream, […]

The King’s Speech, 2010. Directed by Tom Hooper. Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce and Timothy Spall. SYNOPSIS: The story of the relationship between King George VI and an unconventional Australian speech therapist. The first thing I’d like to say about The King’s Speech is […]

West is West, 2010. Directed by Andy DeEmmony. Starring Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh, Emil Marwa and Jimi Mistry. SYNOPSIS: The dysfunctional Khan family continues to struggle for survival in the North of England during the 1970s. Under heavy assault from his father’s tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, 15-year-old Sajid is packed […]