Steve McQueen really does have a thing for the embattled and imprisoned protagonist. His three feature films to date have focused on an Irish republican leading a hunger strike in Hunger, a sex-addict slipping deeper into the despair of his compulsion in Shame, and now the agonising capture and slavery of freeman Solomon Northrop in 12 Years a Slave.
Greed, power games, drugs and New York financial corruption in the 80s. No this is not Wall Street, but simply another Scorsese take on…
The Wind Rises, written and directed by renowned Japanese animated film director Hazao Miyazaki, will be his final film. Known for creating colourful, vivid…
Set in Edo era Japan, 47 Ronin follows a band of disgraced samurai who have been stripped of their rank following the death of…
Set in the not-so-distant future, Her takes place in a world where technology has come so far that operating systems have been programmed intuitively and provide services resembling human interactions and relationships.
August: Osage County features great opportunities for actors, and thankfully a cavalcade of brilliant actors breathes life into these intricate and multi-layered characters. There really isn’t a weak link in the cast, but Streep, Roberts and Cooper deserve to be singled out. Not far behind them are Martindale, Nicholson and Cumberbatch.
The trauma of war often lingers long after the final shots have been fired and the final battle has been won. The Railway Man, directed Jonathan Teplitzky and with a screenplay written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson.
Written and Directed by relative newcomer Destin Cretton (as well as adapted from his short film of the same title), Short Term 12 is an incredible film, not only one of the best of the year, but the best independent drama to come out of America in a long, long time.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has its share of rousing moments, but it never becomes the sweeping inspirational gesture that it wants to be.
Broad English humour? Check. Mismatched duo forced together by circumstance? Check. A heartbreaking and deeply moving story that will bring most of its viewers to tears? Check. A nearly 80 year old woman cussing? Check.