Writer-director Kasi Lemmons’s film of Langston Hughes’s famous 1961 African-American stage musical is a well-crafted, conscientious labour of love. A modern-day, reinterpreted story concerns Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen raised by his about-to-be-evicted single mother in Baltimore, […]
Ethan Hawke stars as a former racing superstar called Brent Magna, who’s ordered by a mystery villain to steal a state-of-the-art car and complete a series of crazy, high-speed, dangerous daredevil stunts against the clock […]
Based on the stage play When Women Wee, fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011 when it was staged at London’s Soho Theatre, Powder Room is set in the ladies’ loo of a down-at-heel […]
A full-on Israeli horror thriller with an unsettling black comedy spin, Big Bad Wolves bears a strong resemblance plotwise to the Hugh Jackman thriller Prisoners. Children are being abducted and brutally murdered. The main suspect in the […]
Another year, another Walt Disney animation. After Wreck-It Ralph, they go back to basics with an old-fashioned fairy tale, a princess, a wicked queen, happy comedy relief, a quest, a threat, some danger, a warm-hearted message, […]
Paul Walker stars as Jared, paired with Jessica Alba as Sam, in this gorgeous looking, cheerily escapist 2005 action adventure thriller. It’s the noughties version of The Deep – remember Jacqueline Bisset in her wet […]
Malcolm McDowell, who played the hero of If…, stars in Lindsay Anderson’s superb 1973 satirical life allegory about Mick Travis, now involved in the shady work of big business. The 1973 film O Lucky Man! […]
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