Good Time is a 2017 gritty crime drama starring Robert Pattison, and directed by Ben and Josh Safdie . It was written by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. The Safdie brothers have worked on a number of other independent films such as Heaven Knows What, Lenny Cooke, and Daddy Longlegs. The film follows Connie Nikas’ one evening after he and
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2016’s Nine Lives, sees Kevin Spacey starring in a family comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (wh0se most notable work as a director was the Men In Black trilogy). Spacey stars as Tom Brand – workaholic CEO of Sports company FireBrand. Brand tightly controls the activity of the company due to his 51% stake, and is in the process of building a
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Broken City is a thriller from 2013, directed by Allen Hughes and featuring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in the lead roles. Wahlberg stars as Billy Taggert a former NYPD detective who lost his job following a shooting of a suspect. The investigation following the shooting sees an intervention by the mayor of the city – Nicholas Hostetler (Crowe) to ensure
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For W – It’s the turn of the cult classic action thriller from 1979 ‘The Warriors’. The film, directed by Walter Hill (The Driver, Another 48 Hours, Red Heat) is based on the book of the same name by Sol Yurick, with a screenplay by David Shaber (Nighthawks, Flight of the Intruder). The film centres around a gang based in Coney
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For R in the Alphabet Challenge, we head over to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. The classic 1950’s crime thriller directed by the great man himself, stars James Stewart in the lead role of L.B. Jeffries. Jeffries is, 6 weeks into a broken left leg, wheelchair bound and stuck in his apartment in a very hot New York summer. His girlfriend
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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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The latest film adaptation of the works of Dennis Lehane takes to the big screen with The Drop, a 2014 version of his novel Animal Rescue. Previous films based on his work include, Shutter Island, Gone Baby Gone, and Mystic River. A new film based on his work is due to be released in 2017 – Live by Night starring
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Florence Foster Jenkins is a biopic film of the true story of the wealthy New York socialite who was able to become a star around the theatrical community of New York in the 1940’s even though she lacked any ability to sing. It was directed by Stephen Frears and written by Nicholas Martin. As the story opens, Jenkins is featuring
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Based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, our latest review is of Girl on the Train, a psychological drama directed by Tate Taylor with Emily Blunt in the lead role. Taylor’s best known previous work was the 2011 The Help and the 2014 Get on Up. Blunt plays Rachel, a single divorcee whose marriage fell
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