Pitch Perfect 2 Director: Elizabeth Banks Starring: Anna Kendrick; Rebel Wilson; Hailee Steinfeld; Brittany Snow; Skylar Astin; Adam DeVine. Plot: After a humiliating command performance at Lincoln Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform. Pitch Perfect 1 was […]
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Testament of Youth (2014) Director: James Kent Screenwriter: Juliette Towhidi Starring: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Colin Morgan, Taron Egerton, Emily Watson, Dominic West, Hayley Atwell, Miranda Richardson It’s summer 1914 and Vera is a young girl from a conservative middle-class family. She is intelligent, brilliant and she wants to attend Oxford to study literature and improve
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Director: Joss Whedon Screenwriter: Joss Whedon Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Rufallo, Jeremy Renner, James Spader, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Elizabeth Olsen Avengers: Age Of Ultron is undoubtedly one of the biggest releases of the 2015 calendar year. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and (many) others
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Suite Française (2015) Director: Saul Dibb Screenwriters: Matt Charman, Saul Dibb Starring: Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Lambert Wilson, Margot Robbie, Alexandra Maria Lara, Tom Schilling, Harriet Walter By looking at the poster for the romantic war drama Suite Française, it is immediately clear in what historical period the
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The Railway Man (2013) Director: Jonathan Teplitzky Screenwriters: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård The Railway Man is a war film directed by Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky. The stellar cast includes Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine and Stellan Skarsgård. The film is based on the true
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Furious 7 (2015) Director: James Wan Screenwriter: Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Jason Statham, Kurt Russel, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Nathalie Emmanuel, Djimon Hounsou Furious 7 is more than just a movie, it’s a farewell that transcends the screen and hits home with a huge dose of real-life right to
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Frank (2014) Director: Leonard Abrahamson Screenwriter: Peter Straughan Starring: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal If there’s one thing that the British and Irish have over the rest of the world when it comes to films, it’s their brand of dark comedy of which there is no comparison. Frank, directed by Leonard Abrahamson, is one
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Insurgent (2015) Director: Robert Schwentke Screenwriter: Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman, Mark Bomback Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney, Mekhi Phifer, Zoe Kravitz, Octavia Spencer First of all, just a little background for you here. When I first came across the trailer for the first chapter of
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Snowpiercer (2014) Director: Bong Joon Ho Screenwriter: Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Masterson Starring: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Ah-sung Ko, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton Bong Joon Ho’s Euro-Korean-American sci-fi thriller was excellent for one reason above all else: originality. This post-apocalyptic thriller never took audiences for granted, opposed the archetypal
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Chappie (2015) Director: Neill Blomkamp Screenwriters: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell Starring: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, Ninja, Yo-Landi Visser Neill Blomkamp’s latest socially conscious low key sci-fi, Chappie (2015), felt like a film torn between two ideals. The first was that it wanted to be an in-your-face adult shoot-em-up filled with explosions and
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