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 […]
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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 […]
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Ten years after the show was axed, the cast is re-assembled for a big-screen outing. A strange entity is heading for Earth, threatening the planet’s very existence, and with the newly-fitted […]
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 […]
Under The Skin
Glasgow goes bizarro in Under The Skin, an arthouse sci-fi starring Scarlett Johansson as some sort of predatory alien disguised as a woman, driving round Scotland in search of men […]
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 […]
Citizenfour
Following last year’s revelations about the extent of the US and other governments’ spying on all communications, this insider documentary shows the process of Snowden going public, with footage of […]
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 […]
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