Journeyman, 2017. Directed by Paddy Considine. Starring Paddy Considine, Jodie Whittaker, Paul Popplewell, Tony Pitts, and Anthony Welsh. SYNOPSIS: Middleweight boxing champion of the world, Matty Burton, faces the biggest fight of his career when a life threatening injury irreparably changes him and his family. The prospect of another boxing movie so soon after Creed, Southpaw, […]
Movie Review – Funny Cow (2017)
Funny Cow, 2017. Directed by Adrian Shergold. Starring Maxine Peake, Tony Pitts, Paddy Considine, Alun Armstrong, Stephen Graham, and Lindsay Coulson. SYNOPSIS: In the 1970s, a female stand up with the stage name of Funny Cow struggles to make a name for herself on the club circuit, where women on stage are expected to be […]
Second Opinion – The Death of Stalin (2017)
The Death of Stalin, 2017. Directed by Armando Iannucci. Starring Simon Russell Beale, Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough, Jason Isaacs, Paddy Considine, Michael Palin, and Paul Whitehouse. SYNOPSIS: Follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death. Who knew gulags and mass graves, systematic rape and murder […]
Second Opinion – The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
The Girl with All the Gifts, 2016. Directed by Colm McCarthy. Starring Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine and Glenn Close. SYNOPSIS: A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. To say that the zombie genre has become saturated with […]
Movie Review – The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
The Girl with All the Gifts, 2016. Directed by Colm McCarthy. Starring Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine and Sennia Nanua. SYNOPSIS: A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. The Girl with All the Gifts left me feeling cold upon first […]
10 Great Buddy Cop Movies Not Written or Directed By Shane Black
To coincide with the release of The Nice Guys, Kieran Fisher recommends 10 other buddy cop movies worth checking out… This weekend marks the release of Shane Black’s new film The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a law enforcement duo investigating a missing persons case. It also sees Black return to […]
Movember – Top 5 Movie Moustaches
Luke Owen celebrates Movember… As a macho male man, I bloody love and appreciate a good moustache. Here in the UK, we use the month of November to help raise awareness of prostate cancer by growing our moustaches in the spirit of charity. It’s all for a great cause. But then we shave them off. […]
51st Chicago International Film Festival Review – Macbeth (2015)
Macbeth 2015. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, David Thewlis, Sean Harris, Elizabeth Debicki, Jack Reynor and Paddy Considine. SYNOPSIS: Macbeth, a duke of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders […]
Movie Review – Macbeth (2015)
Macbeth, 2015. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, David Thewlis, Sean Harris, Elizabeth Debicki, Jack Reynor and Paddy Considine. SYNOPSIS: Macbeth, a duke of Scotland, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders […]
Movie Review – Child 44 (2015)
Child 44, 2015. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Jason Clarke, Paddy Considine and Vincent Cassel. SYNOPSIS: A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Based on Tom Rob Smith’s 2008 novel; Child 44 proves how […]
