Miss Sloane is a 2016 political thriller set in the increasingly murky world of business interest lobbying of politicians and governments. Starring Jessica Chastain as the title character within the film, it is directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Captain Correlli’s Mandolin) and is the screenplay debut by Jonathon Perera. As Sloane introduces us all
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Pain and Gain is a pointless, charmless, crime-comedy-drama that stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, as two body builders that find themselves into a world of crime as they aggressively pursue a better lives for themselves. Set in Florida, in 1995, and based on what (as the film itself says ‘sadly’) is a true story, the film is directed by
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American Sniper was the 2014 biopic directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper in the lead role as US Sniper Chris Kyle. It was written by Jason Hall and based on a book of the same name written by Kyle. The film recounts the tale of Kyle, the desist sniper in US military history, ranging from brief moments from
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Bridget Jones is back, 12 years since Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason saw Rennee Zellweger star as the London based news reporter struggling to hold onto love. The film sees the return of director Sharon Maguire to the helm, having directed the original, before Beeban Kidron directed the second film in the series. Based on the character created
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Elyisum is a 2013 sci-fi action thriller starring Matt Damon, which represented the first feature film by director Neill Blomkamp since the 2009 District 9. Set in a dystopian future, where the Earth has become so polluted that the richest of the planet took to a new home, the gigantic space station – Elysium. With conditions similar to Earth, the
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David Brent, former star of early 2000’s fictional reality TV show The Office, is back. He’s back, again in the form of Ricky Gervais and he is going on tour. The 2016 film David Brent : Life on the Road is written, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais based on the comedy character that launched his career. The film centres
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We’re back off to the Lego Universe now for the review of the Lego Batman film that is currently out in the cinema. The second Lego film to have come out after 2014’s The Lego Movie, Chris McKay (who was an animation director on the 2014 film) now takes on his full directorial debut. The screenplay is by a number
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Well we’ve made it to the end of this year’s alphabet challenge, and also seemingly close to the end of humanity with Zombieland. Directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by the pair of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film is set after a zombie disease has wiped out the majority of mankind leaving only a few humans alive and
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One of the biggest Mel Brooks comedy films is the ‘Y’ letter of the Alphabet challenge with the 1974 Young Frankenstein. The film, directed by Brooks with Gene Wilder in the lead role was actually co-written by the pair in their 3rd collaboration (having already made the 1968 The Producers, and Blazing Saddles which also came out in 1974). The
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For X in the Alphabet Challenge, we turn to the Netflix produced 2016 XOXO, directed by Christopher Louie with a story that he created, with a screenplay by Dylan Meyer. The film centres on a music festival in the US, at which Ethan (Graham Phillips) a young DJ has been offered a chance to pay a set. As he makes
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