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 […]
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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 […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1
A bit after the events of Catching Fire, Catnip (Jennifer Lawrence) is in the hands of a rebel group, fighting President Snow (Donald Sutherland), ensconced deep in the Capitol of District 1. […]
Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Louis Bloom, a low level crook who sees a business opportunity for an unscrupulous individual such as himself: flogging footage of crime and emergencies to local news stations. Louis’s […]
Mr Turner
I began today the youngest person at a Turner exhibition (save for a baby that looked like it would rather be elsewhere) and ended it the youngest person at a […]
Singin’ in the Rain
Looking though one of those lists of the 100 greatest films or something, this was the first one I hadn’t seen. I say I hadn’t seen it; what I mean […]
The Equalizer
Denzel Washington plays Bob, an ordinary hardware store worker and all-round nice guy, working his way through the hundred novels to read before you die, and befriending a young sex […]
A Walk Among the Tombstones
You know that thriller where the retired cop investigates a case by himself to atone for a mistake earlier in his career? You know how he drinks too much and […]
The Guest
A bloke called David (Dan Stevens) shows up at a recently bereaved family’s house, claiming to have served in the army with their son. He ends up living there, for […]
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Following an incident which left his partner hospitalised, no-nonsence cop Carl (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is being marginalised on the force. With no-one left who will work with him, he is […]
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