Film

Featuring new footage Writer/Director Taylor Sheridan (Hell Or High Water, Sicario) Wind River is in cinemas on Friday 8th September. Wind River follows U.S. Fish & Wildlife agent Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) as he is forced to confront his past when he joins a rookie FBI agent, Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) in a quest to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Written and Directed by: Taylor Sheridan Starring: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, Jon...

News that Hayao Miyazaki’s decision to retire back in 2014 may have been a tad premature, and that as of earlier this year he was back working with Studio Ghibli – possibly on a feature-length version of his new short film, Boro The Caterpillar – was doubtless enough to get even the most apathetic anime fan prancing around the living room like a bounding Totoro on a moonlit night. However, one can’t help but be concerned that this return of...

A sense of history hangs heavy over ‘Back to Burgundy’ (‘Ce qui nous lie’), the new film from French filmmaker, Cedric Klapisch. ‘Back to Burgundy’ is a sentimental film and one that has a very good first act with the strongest writing of the whole film, nicely setting up the premise. Thereafter the film’s structural problems begin. It is a tale of familial heartache and strife set against the picturesque vineyards of Burgundy, where siblings Jean (Pio Marmaï), Juliette (Ana...

Based on Duncan Falconer’s book The Hostage, Stratton follows John Stratton (Dominic Cooper), a Special Boat Service operative, who along with a secret services team is trying to intercept a batch of deadly biochemical weapons. The weapons find their way into the hands of former Soviet operative Grigory Barovsky (Thomas Kretschmann) who plans to drop them on London and there is only limited time for Stratton to stop him. Dominic Cooper tries his best in the central role but the...

By Michael McNulty Released in 1951, Samuel Fuller’s The Steel Helmet was the first Korean War film ever made. Fuller’s third feature, made on a budget of roughly $ 100,000, was a smash hit with audiences and grossed over $ 2 million at the box office. Many a great war film owes a credit to The Steel Helmet.  In the wake of World War Two, Hollywood churned out films where conflict was easily defined and compartmentalised into good vs. evil. ...

Chloe Bennet, who stars in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, said she had to change her name from Chloe Wang in order to make it in Hollywood. She told an Instagram follower who queried her name change: "Hollywood is racist and wouldn't cast me with a last name that made them uncomfortable." "Changing my last name doesn't change the fact that my BLOOD is half Chinese, that I lived in China, speak Mandarin or that I was culturally raised both American...

The streets of Victorian East London must have been a pretty scary place. Before the trendy bars and artisan coffee shops, it was full of dark alleyways, smoky air, questionable characters, and of course murder. It is the latter that The Limehouse Golem is concerned with. Set in Victorian London, Inspector John Kildare (Bill Nighy) is tasked with catching the notorious Golem murderer, who has struck terror throughout the Limehouse district of the city. When John Cree (Sam Reid) is...

By Michael McNulty Francis Lee’s debut feature film, God’s Own Country, is a delicate and hopeful love story, an intimate portrayal of a budding romance deep in rural Yorkshire that will likely draw comparisons to Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.  But, there is nothing derivate about this Yorkshire set film. Johnny (Josh O’Connor) shoulders the weight of his family’s ailing farm, his father, Martin (Ian Hart), unable to work as a result of a stroke.  The young man’s life is defined...

Steven Soderbergh, once dubbed the poster boy of the Sundance generation by legendary critic Roger Ebert, makes his return from a short-lived ‘movie retirement’ with Logan Lucky – a wacky, redneck, Ocean’s Eleven-esque crime comedy. Soderbergh enlists a trio of brawny heartthrobs - in the shape of Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum and Adam Driver – in an attempt to guarantee his comeback doesn’t fall short of the mark, and it almost pays off. Tatum, more rotund than ever, is a...