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Director: John Wells Stars: Meryl Streep, Ewan McGregor, Julianne Nicholson August: Osage County is a film with one hell of a pedigree. Based on the Pulitzer-winning play by Tracy Letts (and adapted for the screen by Letts), produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, with attention-grabbing turns from the likes of (deep breath now) Julia …
Year: 1979 Director: Walter Hill Stars: Michael Beck (Swan), James Remar (Ajax), Dorsey Wright (Cleon), Brian Tyler (Snow), David Harris (Cochise), Roger Hill (Cyrus), David Patrick Kelly (Luther), Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Mercy) Genre: Action / Thriller There term 'midnight movie' was coined and is still used to describe a certain subset of films which attained …
Director: Michael Scorsese Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner At the time of writing Martin Scorsese is 71 years old. Not that you'd know it from watching his latest film - his twenty-somethingth feature - which careers out of the gate at top speed and barely pauses for breath once in its entire 180 …
Director: Steve McQueen Stars: Chiwetel Eijofor, Lupita Nyong'o, Brad Pitt Steve McQueen, former Turner Prize-winning artist turned white-hot front-runner for British cinema, makes films about men in prisons. With his searing debut Hunger, detailing the last days of Bobby Sands in Maze Prison, this was approached literally. With his superb second film Shame, he turned inward, portraying …
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Stars: Brie Larson, Kaitlyn Dever, Rami Malek As 2014 gets underway and the year's big hitters for awards season start rolling out the doors, there's still some mopping up of 2013 to be done. Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, first appeared on UK shores late last year in …
Director: J. C. Chandor Stars: Robert Redford Though praise has been high, it's not hard to see why All Is Lost has struggled to find a footing in the UK's consciousness this festive season. After three solid weeks of rainstorms and flooding, the prospect of spending 100+ minutes in the company of one man as …
The Lost Highway Hotel 