Submarine (2010) Director: Richard Ayoade Screenwriter: Richard Ayoade Starring: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine Richard Ayoade’s darkly humourous adaptation of Joe Dunthorpe’s coming of age novel Submarine is a movie that feels like a song by The Smiths wrapped in the sort of self-aware cinematic tropes that paint a picture of […]
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A Star Is Born (2018) Director: Bradley Cooper Screenwriters: Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth Starring: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Anthony Ramos, Andrew Dice Clay, Rafi Gavron, Greg Grunberg A Star Is Born has returned to the silver screen for the fourth time, with the 2018 incarnation being driven by screenwriter, director
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) Director: Christopher McQuarrie Screenwriter: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan The regular music plays. The most famous action star on planet Earth looks ponderously into the middle distance. An explosive opener is closely followed by
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Sicario 2: Soldado (2018) Director: Stefano Sollima Screenwriter: Taylor Sheridan Starring: Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Catherine Keener, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Matthew Modine, Shea Whigham, Elijah Rodriguez Stefano Sollima’s hotly anticipated sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s tense thriller Sicario (2015) may have been penned by the same talented hand as the original, but if Sicario 1 was
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On Chesil Beach (2018) Director: Dominic Cooke Screenwriter: Ian McEwan Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff Telling the tale of a young couple from the early 60s who encounter problems in the bedroom when it comes time to consummate their marriage, On Chesil Beach is a melancholy cautionary tale of love and sex that
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) Director: Ron Howard Screenplay: Jonathan Kasdan, Lawrence Kasdan Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Joonas Suotamo, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau, Linda Hunt If it looks like a Star Wars movie and sounds like a Star Wars movie, then surely it is a Star Wars movie? Considering the well publicised
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The Foreigner (2017) Director: Martin Campbell Screenwriter: David Marconi Starring: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan Based on Stephen Leather’s novel “The Chinaman” and directed by the man at the helm of Casino Royale (2006) Martin Campbell, 2017’s The Foreigner is a revenge thriller that is part First Blood (1982) levels of creative brutality and part political drama regarding the rights and wrongs of IRA-led terrorism and
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The Clapper (2018) Director: Dito Montiel Screenwriter: Dito Montiel Starring: Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried, P.J. Byrne, Adam Levine, Tracy Morgan, Russell Peters Screenwriter-director Dito Montiel (Fighting – 2009; Man Down – 2015) has adapted his own novel of the same name for a 2018 self-described romantic comedy that is absent of comedy and almost totally void of romance; The Clapper has to be
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Darkest Hour (2018) Director: Joe Wright Screenwriter: Anthony McCarten Starring: Gary Oldman, Stephen Dillane, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Ronald Pickup, Kristin Scott Thomas Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, the tale of Winston Churchill’s fateful two weeks between becoming prime minister and overseeing the actions of Dunkirk, is a film plighted by obvious screenwriting techniques, distracting visual choices and
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) Director: Jon Watts Screenwriters: John Francis Daley, Christopher Ford, Jonathan Goldstein, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jon Watts Starring: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey, Jr., Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Hannibal Buress, Tony Revolori, Laura Harrier, Martin Starr, Jacob Batalon Spider-Man is back (again… for the third reboot of the
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