ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Denzel Washington (Fences), Colin Farrell (The Killing of a Sacred Deer), Carmen Ejogo (Selma), Amari Cheatom (Django Unchained), DeRon Horton (Burning Sands), Amanda Warren (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Nazneen Contractor (Star Trek Into Darkness), Shelley Hennig (Unfriended), Joseph David-Jones (Detroit), Andrew T. Lee (Hyenas)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler), director, writer; Todd Black (The Great Debaters), Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton), Brian Oliver (Black Swan) and Denzel Washington (Antwone Fisher), producers; James Newton Howard (Blood Diamond), composer; Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood), cinematographer; John Gilroy (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Washington) is a driven and idealistic defence attorney who, over the course of numerous events, finds himself in a crisis where he must take serious action, and in the process finds himself drawn more and more to the shadier side of his job…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Denzel Washington gives yet another magnetising performance as a very complicated man in Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy’s suspenseful sophomore film.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2018

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