Selma, 2015. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Oprah Winfrey, Common and Tim Roth. SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Watching a film like Selma is […]
Second Opinion – Son of a Gun (2014)
Son of a Gun, 2014. Directed by Julius Avery. Starring Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander, Jacek Koman, Matt Nable, Tom Budge and Nash Edgerton. SYNOPSIS: JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia’s most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch’s gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another. […]
Movie Review – Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Kingsman: The Secret Service, 2015. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Sofia Boutella, Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson, Michael Caine and Mark Hamill. SYNOPSIS: A veteran secret agent takes a young upstart under his wing. In Matthew Vaughn’s second adaptation of a Mark Millar comic, he has once again succeeded […]
Movie Review – A Most Violent Year (2014)
A Most Violent Year, 2014. Directed by JC Chandor. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks and Elyes Gabel. SYNOPSIS: In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city’s history. Opening with an explosive piece of violence, JC Chandor’s […]
Second Opinion – Mortdecai (2015)
Mortdecai, 2015. Directed by David Koepp. Starring Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany, Olivia Munn and Jeff Goldblum. SYNOPSIS: Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumoured to contain a code that leads to lost […]
Movie Review – Foxcatcher (2014)
Foxcatcher, 2014. Directed by Bennett Miller. Starring Steve Carrell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave and Sienna Miller. SYNOPSIS: Olympic wrestlers Mark and David Schultz are taken under the wing of multimillionaire sponsor John E Du Pont as they train for the 1988 Olympics. There is a lot right with Foxcatcher and a lot wrong […]
Movie Review – Black Sea (2014)
Black Sea, 2014. Directed by Kevin MacDonald. Starring Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Jodie Whittaker, Sergey Veksler, Karl Davies and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: Let go by the company he’s worked for, for 30 years, Submarine Pilot Robinson (Jude Law) assembles a crew and goes on the hunt for Nazi gold worth […]
Movie Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, 2014. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Natalie Dormer, Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks SYNOPSIS: After defying the capital at the end of Catching Fire, Katniss joins the rebels of District 13 to take on […]
Movie Review – What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
What We Do in the Shadows, 2014. Written and Directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Starring Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer and Stuart Rutherford. SYNOPSIS: A New Zealand documentary crew are invited to the home of four flatmates who just happen to be ancient vampires. With the vampire genre saturated […]
Second Opinion – The Imitation Game (2014)
The Imitation Game, 2014. Directed by Morten Tylbum. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Rory Kinnear and Matthew Goode. SYNOPSIS: The true story of mathematician Alan Turing and his time spent at Bletchley Park developing a machine to crack the enigma code. The treatment of Alan Turing by the British Government is […]
