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MERCS (2017) Short Film Review
MERCS (2017) Director: Michael Morris Screenwriter: Michael Morris Starring: Alicia Ancel, Micky Baker, Angus Brown, Kate Marie Davies, Tessa McGinn, Mike Morris, MERCS is a short film that, despite an obviously passionate and hard-working cast and crew, suffers from the oh-so typical problem of being an idea too large and grandiose for its budget and its…
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Fate (2016) Short Film Review
Fate (2016) Director: Chris Hallas Screenwriter: Chris Hallas Starring: Tom Loone, Claire Marlein Fate (2016), directed by Chris Hallas, is an interesting take on modern society’s affliction with technology and our culture of sharing, which aims to blend the potentially romantic aspects of our modernity with the ultimately dangerous aspects, creating a well constructed cautionary tale…
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1984 (1984) Review
Director: Michael Radford Screenwriter: Michael Radford Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Gregor Fisher, Cyril Cusack Plot: An adaption of George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian future, in which even falling in love is illegal. After Donald Trump’s Inauguration in January, George Orwell’s novel found itself at the top of Amazon’s US bestseller…
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Beauty and the Beast (2017) Review
Beauty and the Beast (2017) Director: Bill Condon Starring: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gadd, Kevin Kline, Hattie Morahan, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Nathan Mack, Audra McDonald, Stanley Tucci, Gugu Mbatha-Raw Plot: A reimagining of the classic Disney animation. A Prince and his castle is cursed by an enchantress. He must find…
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Logan (2017) Review
Logan (2017) Director: James Mangold Screenwriters: Scott Frank, Michael Green, James Mangold Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant Plot: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy…
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Weiner (2016) Review
Weiner (2016) Directors: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg Writers: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, Eli B. Despres When Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg landed former US Congressman Anthony Weiner for a documentary on his New York Mayor campaign trail, even they couldn’t have foreseen what an incredibly insightful, dramatic and oh-so Hollywood sequence of events they’d come to…
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Hidden Figures (2017) Review
Hidden Figures (2016/2017) Director: Theodore Melfi Screenwriters: Theodore Melfi, Allison Schroeder Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, and Jim Parsons Hidden Figures tells the tales of three incredible black women employed by NASA in the early 1960s at a time when the American space programme was taking shape and beginning to…
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Sing (2016/17) Review
Sing (2016/17) Director: Garth Jennings Starring: Taron Egerton, Reese Witherspoon, Tori Kelly, Jennifer Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Hudson, Peter Serafinowicz, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Saunders, Garth Jennings, Nick Kroll & Nick Offerman. Plot: Theatre owner Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) initiates a city-wide singing competition to rescue his beloved theatre from inevitable bankruptcy.…
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Spirit of ’45 (2013) Review
Spirit of ’45 (2013) Director: Ken Loach Screenwriter: Ken Loach Summary: A look back on Labour’s landslide election victory in 1945, and how it’s fulfilment of its socialist manifesto irrevocably changed the live’s of the ordinary working people on the UK: as told by those who witnessed it. Never again. Never again shall we let…
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T2 Trainspotting (2017) Review
T2 Trainspotting (2017) Director: Danny Boyle Screenwriter: John Hodge Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Anjela Nedyalkova Twenty years removed from the subculture embracing smash hit that was Trainspotting (1996/97), director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire – 2008, Steve Jobs – 2015) has re-assembled his cast of likely lads turned worldwide stars to…