A Most Wanted Man, 2014. Directed by Anton Corbijn. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl, Robin Wright, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Derya Alabora and Nina Hoss. SYNOPSIS: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror. With this release Corbijn has once again proven himself to […]
DVD Review – God’s Pocket (2014)
God’s Pocket, 2014. Directed by John Slattery. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: A blue collar worker (Hoffman) tries to cover things up when his stepson is killed in a suspicious accident, but a local reporter (Jenkins) senses that something’s amiss. Mad Men is one of many […]
Blu-ray Review – God’s Pocket (2014)
God’s Pocket, 2014. Directed by John Slattery. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro, Caleb Landry Jones, Jack O’Connell and Bill Buell. SYNOPSIS: In the working-class Philadelphia district of God’s Pocket, the suspicions of the residents are raised when a young manual labourer dies on site. His step-father attempts to […]
DVD Review – God’s Pocket (2014)
God’s Pocket, 2014. Directed by John Slattery. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: A low-level petty criminal tries to cover up the suspicious death of his no-good stepson while his wife tries to uncover the truth with the help of a drunken newspaper journalist. In his final […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Was The Split Necessary?
Robert Kojder on whether The Hunger Games: Mockingjay should have been split in two… Unless you have been living under a rock, then you have probably noticed the recent lucrative trend by Hollywood to take the final chapter of an adaptation and split it into multiple forms. In some cases the decision has been justified […]
New clip from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Ahead of its release tomorrow, Lionsgate has dropped a new clip from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 featuring Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss and Mahershala Ali’s Boggs; check it out below… The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which finds […]
Movie Review – Moneyball (2011)
Moneyball, 2011. Directed by Bennett Miller. Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright. SYNOPSIS: Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) atempts to put together a successful baseball team by employing computer generated analysis to draft his players. Can you really make a movie about all the stuff that goes […]
