For ‘G’ in the Alphabet challenge, we head off to the Boston based crime thriller Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring his younger brother Casey. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island, The Drop, Mystic River), is a crime thriller with strong film noir feel to it following the
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It’s time for ‘F’ in the Alphabet Challenge and the selector has gone for the 1968 musical biopic Funny Girl. The film tells the true tale of Fanny Brice, played by Barbara Streisand in a role that she had previously played on the stage, in a film directed by William Wyler (most famously the director of Ben Hur and Roman Holiday).
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Letter ‘E’ of the Alphabet Challenge – it’s the 1979 drama ‘Escape from Alcatraz’. Based on the true story of the 1962 actual escape from the island prison in San Francisco bay, the story follows a number of inmates (mainly Frank Morris – played by Clint Eastwood) firstly showing daily life in the prison evolving into their endeavours as they
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For letter ‘D’ of the second Alphabet challenge, we’re off to the 1964 classic political satire comedy – Dr Strangelove (Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). The classic film was directed and written by Stanley Kubrick – still in the early years of his career although following up a run of films that has included
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Letter ‘C’ in the Alphabet Challenge takes us to the 2013 military mess Company of Heroes. This shameful piece of cinema is directed by Don Michael Paul (who brought the world other such films as Tremors 5 and Kindergarten Cop 2). The film includes performances by Tom Sizemore, Neal McDonough and Vinnie Jones. All of whom should have kept a
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To Panama we head for the 2nd film of this year’s Alphabet Challenge and to the 2003 film Basic. Directed by John McTiernan, the film is a military mystery thriller starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, and was written by James Vanderbilt. Travolta plays DEA Agent Tom Hardy (yep really!) who is called upon one evening by a former
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We’re off with the 2nd Alphabet challenge and we begin with the Woody Allen classic romantic comedy from 1977 – ‘Annie Hall’. Directed and written by Allen (co-written by Marshall Brickman) the film centres on his character of Alvy Singer – a stand up coming that has begun to make a name for himself with some TV performances in New
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Oscar Isaac stars in this 2014 business / crime thriller set in 1981’s New York, directed by J.C. Chandor (whose two previous directing roles of Margin Call and All is Lost, are both worthy of viewing). The film centres on Abel Morales (Isaacs) and his wife (Jessica Chastain). We find Morales, an upcoming owner of an fuel company, taking on
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So. February can mean only one thing – the return of the Alphabet Challenge. Starting from Feb 1st, this means one film a day (via a well known streaming site – lets call it ‘Metflix’) going letter by letter. I found it an interesting way of finding new films that I hadn’t seen before, but also using it as a
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Today we turn to the 2016 comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses directed by Greg Mottola (previous highlights include Superbad, Adventureland and Paul) and written by Michael LeSieur (The Heist and You, Me and Dupree). Zach Galifianakis, and Isla Fisher star and Jeff (works in the HR department of an aeronautical engineering company) who and Karen Gaffney a married couple
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