Whiplash
From the writer of The Last Exorcism Part II comes Whiplash – the Oscar-nominated story of a young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) and his ruthless teacher (J.K. Simmons). The two […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Foxcatcher
A tiny snippet of St. Stephen by the Grateful Dead plays on the radio in the only enjoyable five seconds of Foxcatcher; the true story of John du Pont (Steve Carell), a billionaire […]
Enemy
The phenomenon of twin films strikes again with doppelgänger thrillers Enemy and The Double arriving months apart, making this a case of twin twin films. Enemy is a psychological thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal […]
Birdman
Birdman is the latest addition to the already well-furnished sub-genre of films about how hard it is being a writer/actor. Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thompson, a washed-up movie star best […]
The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything is the new biopic of physicist, author and all-round cultural icon Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), who meets his future wife Jane (Felicity Jones) while studying at […]
Big Eyes
Tim Burton’s new movie Big Eyes comes with a twist – it doesn’t feature a dead thing, a gnarly tree or Johnny Depp. That happens to be the only twist, and the […]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
It’s part three of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy and part six of his Tolkien saga, where the Hobbit narrative is played out and the groundwork is laid for The Lord […]
The Grandmaster
Set in 1930s China, this follows Ip Man (Tony Chiu Wai Leung) who aims to unify the Northern and Southern styles of Kung Fu. This film reportedly had 20 minutes […]
Interstellar
Cooper (Matthew McCounaughey) and his daughter Murphy (Mackenzie Foy then Jessica Chastain) live in a dystopian future where proper first names have gone extinct. Also extinct are most crops, forcing […]
Get On Up
Produced by Mick Jagger and directed by Tate Taylor, Get On Up is the new biopic of James Brown (Chadwick Boseman). As in the Minister of New New Super Heavy […]
