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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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Scream 2
Director Wes CravenWritten by Kevin Williamson David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurie Metcalf, Elise Neal, Jerry O’Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Liev Schreiber, Jada Pinkett-Smith (as Jada Pinkett), Omar Epps, David Warner, Duane Martin, Rebecca Gayheart, Portia DeRossi, Heather Graham, Tori Spelling, Luke Wilson. Two years after the events of the…
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Django Unchained
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Jaimie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins, James Remar, Don Johnson, Franco Nero, Dennis Christopher, Laura Cayouette. In Tarantino’s seventh film, he delves into the horrible nature of slave trading in 1858. Foxx plays the title Django, having been freed by the German…
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Meg (2018)
Director Jon TurtletaubWritten by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis, Ruby Rose, Robert Taylor, Winston Chao, Page Kennedy, Jessica McNamee, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Sophia Cai, Masi Oka, When a research team trying to discover the secrets of the deepest parts of the ocean accidentally unleash a long believed extinct…
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Batman Returns (1992)
Director Tim Burton Written by Daniel Waters, Sam Hamm & Bob Kane (characters) Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Michael Murphy, Cristi Conaway, Andrew Bryniarski, Vincent Schiavelli, Paul Reubens, Diane Salinger. Follow up to 1989’s Batman, is quite a bit darker, and has a more gothic tone. It has…
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Ready or Not
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler GillettWritten by Guy Busick & R Christopher Murphy Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell, Melanie Scrofano, Kristian Bruun, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni. Grace (Weaving) has just married the love of her life Alex (O’Brien), who has been absent from his uber wealthy Le Domas family for…
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Se7en
Director David FincherWritten By Andew Kevin Walker Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R Lee Ermey, Mark Boone Junior, John C McGinley, Michael Masse, Leland Orser, Richard Portnow, Richard Roundtree, Richard Schiff. This film is quintessentially one of the best, if not THE best thrillers ever made. Even quarter of a century later, it is…
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El Camino
Written and Directed Vince Gilligan Aaron Paul, Robert Forster, Jesse Plemons, Jonathan Banks, Matt Jones, Charles Baker, Larry Hankin, Tess Harper, Michael Bofshever, Tom Bower, Scott Shepherd, Sottt MacArthur, Krysten Ritter, Bryan Cranston. Following his liberation from Jack’s crew, Jesse Pinkman goes on the run as he is the number one suspect in the ‘Walter…
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The Voices (2014)
Director Marjane SatrapiWritten by Michael R Perry Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver, Ella Smith, Stanley Townsend Jerry (Reynolds) is the typical guy next door. He works in the warehouse of a bathtub factory in his small town. He is a little socially awkward but he is genuinely liked by his co workers.…
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Joker
Director Todd PhillipsWritten by Todd Phillips, Scott Silver.Characters created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson. Joaquin Phoenix, Robert DeNiro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Leigh Gill, Josh Pais. In 1981 in Gotham City, the city is being mismanaged by the mayor, the city has become crime ridden,…
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, James Parks, Channing Tatum. Tarantino’s Eighth film, (ironically) is another alternate history story, albeit this time with fictional characters. On a very bad blizzard day in Wyoming in 1877, several people…
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Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Written and Directed Drew Goddard Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, Lewis Pullman, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman. In Tahoe, on the California/Nevada state line – The El Royale Hotel/motel stands. The state line itself runs through the hotel lobby run by a lone clerk (Pullman), once a hustling and bustling location,…
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