Written and Directed by Guy Ritchie Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, Peter McNicholl, PH Moriarty, Lenny McClean, Sting. Eddie (Moran) and his three pals live in the rough side of London. They’ve scraped together £100k for card shark Eddie, to join an underground card game against the mobster ‘Hatchet Harry’ (Moriarty). When Eddie not only loses, but now owes Harry £500k, the lads must come up with a way to find the money… in 7 days. Very well directed film, and debut of Ritchie, who would go on to excel in the genre of the London crim ..read more

Written and Directed by Michael Mann Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore,  Jon Voight, Diane Venora, Ashley Judd, Amy Brennerman, Natalie Portman, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Dennis Haysbert, William Fichtner, Kevin Gage, Mykelti Williamson, Hank Azaria, Danny Trejo, Jeremy Piven, Xander Berkely. Vincent Hanna (Pacino) is a seasoned Lieutenant with the famous RHD at LAPD. He is on his third marriage to Justine (Venora), which is on the rocks. His job takes him to investigate a series of robberies, which lead him to discover Neil McCauley (DeNiro) the cool, calculated leader. Wit ..read more

Dir Michael Bay Written by David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner. Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, John Spencer, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, Vanessa Marcil, John C McGinley, Tony Todd, Bokeem Woodbine, Gregory Sporleder, Danny Nucci, Claire Forlani, Willie Garson, The recently widowed General Hummel (Harris) takes 83 Alcatraz tourists hostage in order for his government to pay the families of men he lost under his command in a secret mission years ago. The money would come from a slush fund the government has. He has hired a team of mercenaries, and has also taken a ..read more

Dir Paul WS Anderson Written by Phillip Eisner Laurence Fishburn, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs, Sean Pertwee. In the year 2047, a group of astronauts head to Neptune’s orbit, to search the recently resurfaced Event Horizon, a deep space ship that has been missing for seven years. When they arrive on the ship, a dark energy seems to be on board, and starts to affect their states of mind. I want to start by revealing two facts about me. One, I am not partial to horror films all that much – while I have reviewed some “horror” films ..read more

Dir Baltasar Kormákur Written by Blake Masters (Based on the Boom! Studios Graphic Novels by Steven Grant) Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, James Marsden, Edward James Olmos , Fred Ward, Robert John Burke. Good friends, Bobby (Washington) and Stig (Wahlberg) run errands for Mexican drug kingpin ‘Papi’ (Olmos). There is just one thing they don’t know about each other, they are both undercover agents trying to bring Papi down. Bobby is DEA, and Stig is Intelligence with US Navy. When they plan to rob a bank which Papi delivers his cash, and has $3m squared away, they ..read more

Dir Joe Johnson Written by Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Sam Neil, William H Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, Michael Jeter, Laura Dern. When wealthy businessman Paul Kirby (Macy) asks Alan Grant (Neil) to accompany him and his wife Amanda (Leoni) on a fly over of one of the islands, and offers him a large amount of money, he reluctantly accepts, as his college is in need of donations. What he doesn’t realise is they are actually a divorced couple who own a hardware store, and whose son has been lost on the island for 8 weeks. The most disappointing ending in the ..read more

Written and Directed by Troy Duffy Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flannery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Billy Connolly, Ron Jeremy, Carlo Rota. In Boston, two Irish brothers, Connor and Murphy MacManus (Flannery and Reedus) live a relatively peaceful life. One night, they get into a scuffle with some Russian mob gangsters – which ends with the MacManus brothers killing them in self defence and FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker (Dafoe) arrives on the scene to investigate. When it is discovered what the brothers did, all charges are dropped – but as the days go by they start ‘hitting’ more Russia ..read more

Written & Directed by Peter Berg Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater, Leland Orser, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, Jeanne Tripplehorn. On the week of Kyle (Favreau) and Laura’s (Diaz) wedding, Kyle heads to Vegas with his friends Boyd (Slater), Moore (Orser), and brothers Michael (Piven) and Adam (Stern). On the night they are there, a tragic accident occurs and the men are responsible for two deaths. Hiding the bodies in the desert, they vow to keep what happened a secret. But can what happened in Vegas stay in Vegas? Solid black comedy from Berg, with a pre ‘Happy’ Favreau in the le ..read more

Written by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón Sandra Bullock, George Clooney. During her first mission to space, engineer Dr Ryan Stone (Bullock) and her space commander, Lt Matt Kowalski (Clooney) are trapped in space after a devastating event has destroyed their space shuttle. As their oxygen runs low, they battle the elements as well as time before a dangerous cloud of space debris which is hurtling through space hits them. Amazingly directed, is one of the most visually stunning portrayals of space put on film. The way the cast were filmed, with some long takes that go between long and wide ..read more

Written & Directed by Boots Riley LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Steven Yeun, Armie Hammer, Danny Glover, Jermaine Fowler,  Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, David Cross (voice), Patton Oswalt (voice) In an alternate and slightly dystopian world – lives Cash (Stanfield). He lives in his Uncle’s (Crews) garage, with his girlfriend Detroit (Thompson) and is months behind in rent. If his Uncle cannot pay his mortgage soon, he will be forced to sell his home and work for the mega conglomerate WorryFree, where he will essentially be a ‘slave’. Cash takes a commission based job at the call c ..read more