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Directed by Robert Zemeckis Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte LeBon, James Badge Dale and Ben Kingsley It is the early 1970’s and Philippe Petit, a struggling street performer, longs for recognition. Since childhood he has…

Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Mark Watney is a botanist with the Ares 3 mission to Mars. Caught in a sudden and severe storm on the surface, Watney is separated from…

A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm. Directed by Baltasar Kormakur Starring Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Josh Brolin, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal. If I am honest I have to…

Picture this - it's coming toward the end of June, there is ten year old kid trying to get through those last few days of fourth class without exploding with excitement at the thoughts of an impending, adventure filled summer. You are not…

The head honchos in Marvel really must be the luckiest bunch of people that ever sat in a room together - they have taken the domain of what, only about 20 years ago, belonged to the geeks and the not-so-mainstream, and turned it into one…

Directed by Keith Walsh and Jill Beardsworth Due to the fact that Syria and Israel haven’t been far from news headlines in the last 12 months many people might be confident enough to competently debate the Middle East conflict or give a…

Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller In recent years we have had several high profile films regarding the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan – In the Valley of Elah, The Hurt Locker, Green Zone and…

Foxcatcher Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Sienna Miller I can safely say that the moment before I watched the first trailer for Foxcatcher I knew absolutely nothing about the…

People are strange and there’s no accounting for taste – great opening line to an article, isn’t it? But it’s true. What you love, I may hate. What you hate, I may love; I mean I even have a bit of a liking for Highlander II: The Quickening…

Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Starring Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter and Grace Gummer. There’s a lot of truth in the saying “what’s seldom is wonderful.” The last 25 years have given us some great westerns,…