The Sting
Paul Newman and Robert Redford execute the perfect long con in George Roy Hill’s 1973 caper. Nothing to do with the boring musician of the same name, The Sting reunites the […]
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Inherent Vice
Chinatown meets China White in Paul Thomas Anderson’s druggy detective mystery – a stonoir, if you will. Inherent Vice is set in 1970s Los Angeles, with the Vietnam War, the Manson Family murders […]
Still Alice
Julianne Moore delivers an Oscar-winning performance as the eponymous Alice, a 50-year-old linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. This well-judged drama explores how the disease affects Alice and her husband John, sensitively played by […]
Ex Machina
Best known for writing such films as 28 Days Later…, Sunshine and Dredd 3D, Alex Garland delivers his directorial debut Ex Machina; a sci-fi thriller starring Oscar Isaac (bearded), Domhnall Gleeson (American) and Alicia Vikander […]
The Scream Quadrilogy
Having attended an all-night marathon of the Scream quadrilogy at Leicester Square’s wonderful Prince Charles Cinema, please indulge me as I deliriously gush about three great slasher movies and Scream […]
Marley
Kevin Macdonald’s documentary about Bob Marley is basically Snoop Dogg’s Reincarnated, but with less weed. At two and a half hours, this is a thorough documentary that leaves no stoned unturned. […]
Predestination
This week marks the end of an era, as Orange Wednesdays comes to a close. This means there’s no longer any reason to be on EE, least of all those Kevin […]
Kingsman: The Secret Service
From the team behind Kick-Ass comes Kingsman: The Secret Service; James Bond retooled for the Nuts magazine generation. Let’s call it Thunderballs. Thunderballs stars Colin Firth as an impossibly suave […]
Switchblade Romance
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: two friends (Cécile De France and Maïwenn) drive out to a remote house for a getaway, which is rudely interrupted by a murderous maniac. For the […]
Selma
The latest Best Picture nominee to inevitably lose to Boyhood is Selma, a historical drama about Martin Luther King’s (David Oyelowo) campaign for black voting rights in Selma, Alabama, 1965. […]
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