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Freeway (1996)
Directed and Written by Matthew Bright Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Wolfgang Bodison, Dan Hedaya, Susan Barnes, Brittany Murphy, Brooke Shields, Conchata Farrell Amanda Plummber, Alanna Ubach, Michael T Weiss, Bokeem Woodbine, Guillermo Diaz. Modern retelling of the fable of Red Riding Hood, sees 15 year old, illiterate Vanessa (Witherspoon in one of her earliest roles)…
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Cars 2 (2011)
Directed by John Lasseter & Bradford LewisWritten by John Lasseter, Bradford Lewis, Dan Fogelman, Ben Queen Owen Wilson, Larry The Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Eddie Izzard Emily Mortimer, John Turturro, Thomas Kretschmann, John Ratzenburger, Bonnie Hunt. Where do we start with this mess? Seriously, parents who first sat down in the cinema for the very…
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Meet Joe Black (1998)
Director Martin BrestWritten by Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade, Bob GoldmanInspired by works by Alberto Casella Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Haden, Jeffrey Tambor, Lois Kelly-Miller, June Squibb. Loosely based on 1934 film Death takes a Holiday, in this film ‘Death’ decides to come to earth, taking the body…
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Hotel Artemis (2018)
Directed and Written by Drew Pearce Jodie Foster, Sterling K Brown, Sofia Boutella, Dave Bautista, Charlie Day, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Zachary Quinto, Jenny Slate. In a crime ravaged and riot driven Los Angeles in 2028 sits the Hotel Artemis. Run by The Nurse (Foster), it is the safe haven for the criminals to…
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The Hunt (2020)
Directed by Craig Gobel Written by Nick Cuse & Damon Lindelof Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Glenn Howerton, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts, Sturgil Simpson, Reed Birney, Steve Coulter, Wayne Duvall. A group of individuals awaken to find themselves in a field. They all have gags locked into their mouths, and having been given a small array of weaponry, they…
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Breakdown (1997)
Directed by Jonathan Mostow Written by Jonathan Mostow & Sam Montgomery Kurt Russell, JT Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, MC Gainey, Jack Noseworthy, Rex Linn, Ritch Brinkley, Moira Sinese, Jack McGee. In my re-watch of the mid 1990’s films, is a tense action thrill ride from the get go, right up until the closing credits. Russell plays Jeff, who is moving cross country with wife…
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Gunpowder Milkshake
Directed by Navot PapushadoWritten by Navot Papushado & Ehud Lavski Karen Gillan, Chloe Coleman, Lena Heady, Angela Bassett, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, Paul Giamatti, Ralph Ineson, Adam Nagaitis, Michael Smiley. Samantha is left by her hit-woman mother Scarlet, in a diner as a child. Fifteen years later, she has joined the same company called The…
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Contact
Director Robert ZemeckisWritten by James V Hart & Michael Goldenberg.Story by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerrit, John Hurt, James Woods, Jena Malone, David Morse, William Fichtner, Geoffrey Blake, Angela Bassett, Jake Busey, Rob Lowe. Her whole life Dr Ellie Arroway has been searching the airwaves for communication. As a…
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Zelko Ivanek, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg. Marty (Farrell) is an alcoholic screenwriter with writers block, who is best friends with Billy (Rockwell). Billy and his friend Hans (Walken) are partners in a dog-napping business where…
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Nobody (2021)
Director Ilya NaishullerWriter Derek Kolstad Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Neilsen, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, RZA. Long time married man Hutch (Odenkirk) is living a monotonous and repetitive life. His job is boring, his son tolerates him and his marriage is hanging by a thread. One night his family is a target of…
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The River Wild (1994)
Director Curtis HansonWriter Denis O’Neill Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, John C Reilly. In this mid 90’s action thriller we see the story of former thrill seeker Gail (Streep), now a middle aged housewife with a troubled marriage. She has planned a white water river travel for her son’s (Mazzello) birthday, having…
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In Bruges
Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésey, Jordan Prentice, Thekla Reuten, Željko Ivanek. In McDonagh’s first feature film, we are introduced to Ray and Ken (Farrell and Gleeson), two Irish hit-men being ordered to hide out in the town of Bruges, at Christmas, (it’s in Belgium) by their…
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Guns Akimbo (2020)
Written & Directed by Jason Howden Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Ned Dennehy, Grant Bower, Edwin Wright, Rhys Darby. Miles (Radcliffe) lives a fairly ordinary life as a computer programmer, in a post modern and alternate to ‘real life’ city. He enjoys ‘trolling’ people on internet comments sections. One night he logs onto…
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Pinocchio (2022)
Director Robert ZemeckisWritten by Robert Zemeckis, Chris Weitz, Carlo Collodi (original story) Tom Hanks, Cynthia Ervio, Lewin Lloyd, Luke Evans, Voice cast – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Benjain Evan Ainsworth, Lorrain Bracco, Keegan-Michael Key. Remake of the classic cartoon, has widowed clockmaker and woodcarver Geppetto make a marionette of a young boy, based on his late son,…
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Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express Directed by Kenneth BranaghWritten by Michael Green (novel by Agatha Christie) Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Olivia Coleman, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jnr, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley. In 1934, famous Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh) has just solved a case in…
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