DIRECTOR: Mike Leigh NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Over 150 years after his death, the great British painter J.M.W Turner can finally be paired with a worthy soul mate in the form of the great British filmmaker Mike Leigh. The latter’s ode to the life of the former, represented...
DIRECTOR: Dan Gilroy NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Abandon all hope, ye who enter here expecting some sort of spin-off movie revolving around a certain fan-favourite X-Men character. Instead, the exact opposite – Nightcrawler dives into a very dark area of modern media as well...
DIRECTOR: Jennifer Kent NOW FOR THE REVIEW… A genre that was once known for its iconic monsters and genuine frights has heartbreakingly been replaced with an overabundance of jump-scares, gore and cliché-ridden plot devices, so forgive us for being a little too...
DIRECTOR: Jamie Hooper
DIRECTOR: David Ayer NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Because it’s set during the Second World War, because Brad Pitt is headlining, and even because it opens with Pitt stabbing a horseback Nazi in the head, many would probably assume they’re in for an Inglourious Basterds-style...
DIRECTOR: David Dobkin NOW FOR THE REVIEW… For all intents and purposes, The Judge is a dad’s movie - we know that sounds like we’re stating the obvious, given it’s mostly about the reconnection of a father and son, but everything about this movie feels geared toward...
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Liebesman NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Of course it’s not going to be good. It never could be, at least not with the people behind it – Michael Bay as producer, the director of Battle: Los Angeles calling the shots, it was gearing up to be DOA as soon as it...
DIRECTOR: Yann Demange NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Dark times fell upon Northern Ireland during the latter half of the twentieth century, with rioters roaming about the streets of Belfast and beyond, and deadly attacks by IRA and other radical movements every left, right and...
DIRECTOR: Wes Ball NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The rush to adapt as many young adult books as possible in order to compete with The Hunger Games is ongoing, with offerings this year including the mediocre Divergent, the admittedly-affective The Fault In Our Stars, and the one...
DIRECTOR: Richard Laxton NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Despite not being the first film to focus on the doomed marriage of John Ruskin and Euphemia “Effie” Gray – a few television serials and a silent film from 1912 have come before it – this particular telling of the story has...