The Two Faces of January, 2014.Directed by Hossein Amini. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac.SYNOPSIS:A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective. Imbibing the feel and tone of Hitchcockian fear and paranoia […]

Thomas Roach with five Marvel characters who should get their own Netflix TV series…. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding fast with not just films being released each year but now shows on television. Next year we are set for two movies – Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man – but also we will be […]

Chalk this one up squarely as a rumour – especially considering its source is the UK tabloid The Sun – but it seems that Daniel Craig (Skyfall) may have shot a secret cameo appearance in Star Wars: Episode VII. Craig reportedly begged director J.J. Abrams for a role in the hotly-anticipated sequel, saying that he’d […]

Phoenix, 2014.Directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, and Imogen Kogge.SYNOPSIS:A concentration-camp survivor searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.A car reaches a checkpoint guarded by American soldiers one of whom demands that the passenger remove the bandages wrapped around her face; upon seeing the injuries that were […]

A Second Chance (En chance til), 2014.Directed by Susanne Bier.Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Maria Bonnevie, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Lykke May Andersen.SYNOPSIS:A veteran police officer with a wife and new baby makes a fateful decision when he is brought back into contact with a pair of junkie parents.A middle class couple are enamoured with their baby […]

Beats of the Antonov, 2014.Directed by Hajooj Kuka.SYNOPSIS:Sudanese farmers, herders and rebels of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain regions defiantly celebrate their heritage and tend their lands in the face of a government bombing campaign.Amongst the civil war which has ravaged Sudan since 2011, the civilian population keep their spirits alive by celebrating life through […]

Elephant Song (La chanson de l’éléphant), 2014.Directed by Charles Binamé.Starring Bruce Greenwood, Xavier Dolan, Catherine Keener, Carrie-Anne Moss, Guy Nadon, and Colm Feore.SYNOPSIS:A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.A young boy seeks out his mother who is a successful opera singer at a […]

Almost to twenty years after Married… With Children ended its run, the stars of the classic FOX sitcom – Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate and David Faustino – reunited in L.A. last week as Sagal was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and now it is being reported that a […]

It looks like the next instalment in the James Bond franchise has a start date, with MI6 reporting that principal photography on the as-yet-untitled Bond 24 will get underway on December 6th, following a script read-through in November.Bond 24 will reunite Skyfall director Sam Mendes with Daniel Craig, who is making his fourth appearance as […]

In 2011, David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en) co-wrote and directed an adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s highly acclaimed Swedish crime novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo starring Daniel Craig (Skyfall) as troubled journalist-turned-detective Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara (Her) as badass hacker Lisbeth Salander. Despite reaping a tonne of money and award nominations the general […]