Director: Brad Furman Main Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, William H. Macy, Bryan Cranston, Michael Peña The road to greatness for most actors isn’t a steep incline, but more of a gradual changing of the gears… a journey which starts by taking any and all work available (e.g. Passenger 3) before smoothly transitioning into a series of…
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You Should Be Watching… The Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Director: Derek Yee Main Cast: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Xu Jinglei, Fan Bingbing For most of us the term “foreign film” is an immediate turn off. There’s something about having to read subtitles that just sends your mind back to the boredom of secondary school language classes (don’t worry, the irony of…
You Should Be Watching… Limitless (2011)
“You Know How They Say That We Can Only Access 20% Of Our Brain’s, This Lets You Access ALL OF IT” Damn Morpheus, that was a bit deep… What about a nice middle? Instead of a red pill and a blue pill, could we have a ‘clear pill’ ? One that lets…
You Should Be Watching… Room (2015)
Director: Lenny Abrahamson Screenplay: Emma Donoghue Main Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H. Marcy, Sean Bridges Inspired by the horrifying true story of Josef Fritzl’s 24 year imprisonment of his daughter, Elisabeth, and her son Felix. The world that we live in is vast and boundless, to the point that we…
You Should Be Watching… End Of Watch (2012)
Director & Writer: David Ayer Main Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Natalie Martinez, Anna Kendrick Before the release of ‘End Of Watch’ you couldn’t pay me to watch another cop film. They’d been played out so much that whenever I watched one it felt like I was watching the same film, with the…
Focus – Is this Will Smith’s ‘Make or Break’ Movie?
When I was growing up Will Smith was my favourite actor and weirdly….. my favourite rapper too (I was young, forgive me). The man could do no wrong in my eyes. Blockbuster hit after hit, chart domination and star of one of the best shows on TV, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. To say…
