Half Nelson dir. by Ryan Fleck
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret. Dunne (Gosling) is introduced to the viewer...
4 June 2016
Creed dir. by Ryan Coogler
I find myself unable to really blurb this film. I mean, yeah, the bare bones of it are an orphan kid tries to find himself through boxing. Gets mentored by his...
18 January 2016
Mud dir. by Jeff Nichols
Ellis (Tye Sheridan) live in Arkansas, on a boat-house, floating on a river1. His father earns a living from the river, catching and selling fish. Ellis’ best friend, Neckbone (Jacob Lofland),...
4 May 2015
Cyrus dir. by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
John (John C. Reilly) and Jamie (Catherine Keener) have been divorced for seven years. He never got over that. And now she is getting married again. John is upset, so to...
28 February 2015
Birdman dir. by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Riggan (Michael Keaton) is the star of a series of superhero films, the Birdman of the title, but he wants to be known for more than that. He wants to be...
1 February 2015
The Drop [based on the short story] by Dennis Lehane dir. by Michaël R. Roskam
Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) works in a bar in Brooklyn. The pub used to belong to his cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), where it gets its name from “Cousin Marv’s”, but when...
16 November 2014
Locke dir. by Steven Knight
Ivan Locke (Hardy) is supposed to be heading home after a long day at work. He is supposed to be watching the game with his wife and sons. But instead he...
25 October 2014
Serpico [based on the book] by Peter Maas dir. by Sidney Lumet
Based on the true story of Frank Serpico, this is the story of a police officer who turns whistleblower and ends up exposing a lot of police corruption in the NYPD...
31 August 2014
Adam’s Rib dir. by George Cukor
Warren Attinger has been a bad husband, but his wife, Doris, has caught him out. She follows him one day and when she uncovers him with Beryl Caighn she has had...
24 May 2014
The Marrying Kind dir. by George Cukor
In the domestic courts it is time for Keefer vs Keefer. But the various arguments carry on until it is six o’clock and the presiding judge calls a halt. She wants...
4 May 2014
To kill a mockingbird [based on the book] by Harper Lee dir. by Robert Mulligan
In a small town in Alabama in the 1930’s Atticus Finch is working hard to raise his two children; his son Jem and his daughter Scout. He works as a lawyer...
3 May 2014
Made for each other dir. by John Cromwell
Up and coming lawyer John Mason has just returned from taking a deposition in Boston. But work wasn’t all that was keeping him busy. While there he met Jane, and when...
26 April 2014
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