Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda Director: Stephen Spielberg James Donovan (Hanks) is an insurance lawyer tasked with defending a captured Communist spy, Rudolf Abel (Rylance), a job that nobody wants to touch. In his honest way, he expects the trial to be carried out in a just manner, and when it is not,… Continue reading Bridge of Spies (2015)
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105 Must See Film: Do The Right Thing (1989)
Starring: Spike Lee, John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Rosie Perez, Samuel L Jackson, Martin Lawrence Director: Spike Lee One summer in Brooklyn, as the temperature rises racial tensions flare, centring on a Italian owned pizza shop in a black neighbourhood. Mookie, played by the director Spike Lee, is the main character in a large cast that… Continue reading 105 Must See Film: Do The Right Thing (1989)
105 Must Watch Films: Strange Days (1995)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott Director: Kathryn Bigelow A film about 1999, made in 1995. Everyone thought Y2K was going to be a big thing. The world was coming to an end. But neither of those things happened. I wish that that was the main problem with this film.… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: Strange Days (1995)
105 Must Watch Film: Diner (1982)
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Daniel Stern, Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Timothy Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser Director: Barry Levinson Baltimore 1959: a group of friends contemplate their futures and the nature of growing up over several conversations in their favourite diner hangout, as one of their number questions whether to get married. It's painful to watch.… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Film: Diner (1982)
105 Must Watch Film: Raising Arizona (1987)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Frances McDormand Director: Joel and Ethan Coen Mad-cap caper in which an ex-con (Cage) and an officer of the law (Hunter) couple kidnap a child when they find themselves unable to conceive. But things get complicated when two escaped prisoners turn up and a leather clad bounty hunter… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Film: Raising Arizona (1987)
105 Must Watch Films: House Of Wax (1953)
Starring: Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson Director: Andre De Toth Classic horror about a wax model artist called Jarrod (Price), whose business partner burns him alive with his creations in order to collect insurance money. But Jarrod will not stay dead, and reappears to exact his revenge on those who crossed him,… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: House Of Wax (1953)
Maggie (2015)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson Director: Henry Hobson Highly underrated, this film has Schwarzenegger really outdoing himself as a father whose daughter has come home to spend her last days before she turns into a flesh eating zombie. I think perhaps the zombie element disappointed audiences, because this film is more about a dystopian… Continue reading Maggie (2015)
Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance (2014)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis Director: Alejandro G Inarritu A remarkable and surreal film about an actor Riggan Thomson (Keaton) trying revive his ailing career by directing and starring in a play in New York. Assisted by his recovering drug abuser daughter (Stone) and foiled by his jealousy of… Continue reading Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance (2014)
105 Must See Films: Lone Star (1996)
Starring: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey Director: John Sayles If you look this film up online, you'll find that most people describe it as "multi-faceted" and that it will stay with you for days after watching. A body is uncovered in the desert. The sheriff, Sam (Cooper), suspects that it's his predecessor,… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Lone Star (1996)
The Forest (2016)
Starring: Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Eoin Macken Director: Jason Zada In Japan, there is a vast forest covering the base of the famous Mount Fuji. Part of that impenetrable green is called Aokigahara, which means Sea Of Trees, and is a site where large numbers of Japanese go to commit suicide, with figures speculated to… Continue reading The Forest (2016)
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