WAR ON EVERYONE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Alexander Skarsgård (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Michael Peña (Ant-Man), Theo James (Divergent), Tessa Thompson (Creed), Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class), Paul Reiser (Whiplash), Stephanie Sigman (Spectre), David Wilmot (The Guard), Malcolm Barrett (Dear White People)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

John Michael McDonagh (Calvary), director, writer; Chris Clark (Legend), Flora Fernandez-Marengo (The Guard), Phil Hunt (Freeheld) and Compton Ross (Ashby), producers; Lorne Balfe (Penguins of Madagascar), composer; Bobby Bukowski (The Messenger), cinematographer; Chris Gill (28 Days Later), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Detective Terry Monroe (Skarsgård) and Detective Bob Bolaño (Peña) are two corrupt New Mexico cops who set out to blackmail and frame every criminal that is unfortunate to cross their paths. However, things take a sinister turn when they try and intimidate a criminal who might be more dangerous than they are (the key word being “might”)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

John Michael McDonagh, the filmmaker behind The Guard and our favourite film of 2014 Calvary, is back with a darkly hilarious tale of corruption and violence, and that’s just describing the police in this film!

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 7TH OCTOBER 2016

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