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Director: Tom McCarthy Stars: Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Billy Crudup Appearing like an act of contrition following calamitous Adam Sandler vehicle The Cobbler last year, Tom McCarthy's latest directorial offering is as austere a movie as we're likely to get this awards season outside of The Danish Girl. Working with production company Anonymous Content (who, by no …
Director: Lenny Abrahamson Stars: Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Brie Larson When I heard that The Room was back in cinemas and, what's more, sneaking into Oscars contention - not least for its lead actress - I assumed it was some weird joke. Had I woken in Bizarro-world? But no. Tommy Wiseau's cult 'classic' will remain on …
Director: Adam McKay Stars: Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carrell "Where the fuck did that come from?" Yeah. There's a statement. One many of us thought or maybe even vocalised in 2007 when the world economy folded up like a deckchair as it became apparent that the banks had acted with such self-interest and short-sightedness that …
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Forrest Goodluck Conventional wisdom tells us that violence and vengeance form a circle, but that notion suggests the return to a beginning place, a place of innocence where said violence existed only in potential. What if, instead, it were a spiral, emanating from a microcosmic central point, it's …
Director: Quentin Tarantino Stars: Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern The Hateful Eight appears, upfront, to be a western. Quentin Tarantino's 8th feature film (as he takes great pride in advising us right out of the gate) takes place several years after the end of the Civil War in the coldest wastes of wintry …
Director: Tom Hooper Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Wishaw Another New Year, another transformative Eddie Redmayne performance. This time last year we were taken aback by the actor's committed performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything; a chameleonic turn that garnered multiple awards. It was not long after that the first images of …
Director: David O. Russell Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper There's a scene in David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook in which Bradley Cooper's bipolar character Pat apologises to Jennifer Lawrence's Tiffany for his conversational style, explaining that he has "no filter". The same might very well be said for Russell's approach to his …
The Lost Highway Hotel 