KING ARTHUR – LEGEND OF THE SWORD

1 out of 10

UK/USA co-production

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 19th May 2017

Director: Guy Ritchie (The Gentlemen / Aladdin (2019) / The Man From UNCLE / Sherlock Holmes 2 – Game of Shadows / Sherlock Holmes (2009) / Rock-n-Rolla / Revolver / Swept Away / Snatch / Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)

Cast:  Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Djimon Hounsou, Aiden Gillen, Neil Maskell, Peter Ferdinando, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Bleu Landau, Tom Wu, Freddie Fox, Michael McElhatton, Geoff Bell, Mikael Persbrandt, Annabelle Wallis, Lorraine Bruce, Poppy Delevingne, Millie Brady, Craig McGinlay, Rob Knighton, David Beckham and Eric Bana

Writer: Lionel Wigram, Joby Harold & Guy Ritchie

Trailer: KING ARTHUR – LEGEND OF THE SWORD

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Charlie Hunnam: True History of the Kelly Gang, The Gentlemen, A Million Little Pieces, Triple Frontier, Papillon (2019), The Lost City of Z, Crimson Peak, Sons of Anarchy (TV), Pacific Rim, Deadfall, Children of Men, Green Street, Cold Mountain, Nicholas Nickleby, Queer as Folk (TV), Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
• Jude Law: Fantastic Beasts 3, Sherlock Holmes 3, A Rainy Day In New York, The Rhythm Section, The New Pope / The Young Pope (TV), Captain Marvel, Vox Lux, Fantastic Beasts 2 – The Crimes of Grindelwald, Spy (2015), The Grand Budapest Hotel, Black Sea, Dom Hemingway, Side Effects, Rise Of The Guardians (voice), 360, Anna Karenina (2012), Hugo, Contagion, Sherlock Holmes 2 – A Game of Shadows (2011), The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Sherlock Holmes (2009), Repo Men, My Blueberry Nights, Sleuth, The Holiday (2006), Breaking & Entering, Aviator, Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events (voice), Closer, Alfie, Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow, I Heart Huckabees, Cold Mountain, The Road To Perdition, Enemy At The Gates, Love Honour and Obey, A.I., The Talented Mr Ripley, Existenz, Wisdom Of Crocodiles, Final Cut, Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil, Gattaca, Wilde, Shopping
• Astrid Berges-Frisbey: Pirates of the Caribbean 4 – On Stranger Tides
• Djimon Hounsou: The King’s Man – Kingsman 3, A Quiet Place 2, Charlie’s Angels (2019), Shazam!, Captain Marvel, Aquaman (voice), Wayward Pines (TV), The Legend of Tarzan, Fast & Furious 7, Guardians of the Galaxy, How To Train Your Dragon 2 (voice), Push, Never Back Down, Eragon, Blood Diamond, The Island, Beauty Shop, Constantine, Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2 – The Cradle of Life, Biker Boyz, In America, The Four Feathers, Gladiator, Deep Rising, Amistad, Stargate
• Aiden Gillen: Project Blue Book (TV), Peaky Blinders (TV), Bohemian Rhapsody, Dave Allen at Peace, Maze Runner 3 – The Death Cure, Game Of Thrones (TV), Sing Street, You’re Ugly Too, Maze Runner 2 – The Scorch Trials, Still, Calvary, Mister John, Shadow Dancer, Treacle Jr, The Dark Knight Rises, Blitz, Wake Wood, Twelve Rounds, The Wire (TV), Shanghai Knights, The Low Down, Queer As Folk (TV), My Kingdom, Some Mother’s Son, Mojo, Circle Of Friends
• Neil Maskell: Peaky Blinders (TV), Happy New Year Colin Burstead, In Darkness, The Mummy (2017), Level Up, High-Rise, Humans (TV), Hyena, Open Windows, Utopia (TV), Dates (TV), Evil Never Dies, The Rise, All Things To All Men, Pusher (2012), Turnout, St. George’s Day, Piggy, Wild Bill (2012), Ghosted, Kill List, Jack Falls, Bonded by Blood, How To Stop Being a Loser, Tony, Doghouse, The Shouting Men, Rise of the Footsoldier, Paintball, It’s All Gone Pete Tong, The Football Factory, Nil By Mouth
• Peter Ferdinando: Muscle, Vita and Virginia, Happy New Year Colin Burstead, Blue Iguana, Tommy’s Honour, Lost In London, High-Rise, Hyena, Starred Up, A Field In England, Turnout, Snow White and The Huntsman, Tony
• Kingsley Ben-Adir: High Fidelity (TV), Peaky Blinders (TV), The OA (TV), The Commuter,  Trespass Against Us
• Bleu Landau: Eastenders (TV)
• Tom Wu: The Gentlemen, Fast & Furious – Hobbs & Shaw, Da Vinci’s Demons (TV), Kick-Ass 2, The Scorpion King 2 – Rise of a Warrior, Mutant Chronicles
• Freddie Fox: Fanny Lye Deliver’d, The Crown (TV), Watership Down (voice)(TV), Black 47, Victor Frankenstein, The Riot Club, Pride (2014),  Parade’s End (TV), The Three Musketeers (2011)
• Michael McElhatton: The Last Duel, Das Boot (TV),  Justice League, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Siege of Jadotville, Game of Thrones (TV), The Hallow, The Fall (TV), Albert Nobbs, Parked, Intermission, I Went Down
• Geoff Bell: The Rhythm Section, His Dark Materials (TV), Once Upon a Time in London, Hatton Garden (TV), The Man With The Iron Heart, Mine, North V South, Suffragette, Kingsman – The Secret Service, Comedown, The Reeds, Storage 24, Comes a Bright Day, War Horse, Brighton Rock (2011), Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, Route Irish, Solomon Kane, Mercenaries, Just For The Record, Wild Target (2010), The Heavy, Botched, Freebird, Love Me Still, Tormented, Green Street, The Business, Mean Machine
• Annabelle Wallis: Peaky Blinders (TV), Tag, Annabelle 2 – Creation, The Mummy (2017), Grimsby, Hello Carter, Sword of Vengeance, Annabelle, The Tudors (TV)
• Lorraine Bruce: Will (TV), White Gold (TV), The Syndicate (TV), The Scouting Book For Boys, Eden Lake
• Poppy Delevingne: Kingsman 2 – The Golden Circle
• Millie Brady: Teen Spirit, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
• Rob Knighton: Anti-Social, Everyone’s Going To Die
• David Beckham: Goal!
• Eric Bana: The Dry, The Secret Scripture, Special Correspondents, The Finest Hours, Deliver Us From Evil, Lone Survivor, Closed Circuit, Dead Fall, Hanna, The Time Traveller’s Wife, Funny People, Star Trek (2009), The Other Boleyn Girl, Romulus My Father, Lucky You, Munich, Troy, The Hulk, Finding Nemo (voice), The Nugget, Black Hawk Down, Chopper, Full Frontal (TV), The Castle

TOMMY’S HONOUR

3 out of 10

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 7th July 2017

Director: Jason Connery (The Devil’s Tomb)

Cast: Jack Lowden, Peter Mullan, Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Neill, Therese Bradley, Ian Pirie, Max Deacon, Paul Tinto, Andy Gray, Benjamin Wainwright, Paul Reid with Nicky Henson and Peter Ferdinando

Writer: Pamela Marin & Kevin Cook

Trailer: TOMMY’S HONOUR

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Jack Lowden: Capone, Calibre, Fighting With My Family, Mary Queen of Scots (2019), England Is Mine, Dunkirk, Denial, A United Kingdom, War and Peace (TV)
• Peter Mullan: Marionette, Mum (TV), The Legend of Mowgli (voice), The Vanishing (2019), Westworld (TV), Hostiles, THector, Sunset Song, Sunshine On Leith, The Liability, Welcome To The Punch, The Man Inside, War Horse, Tyrannosaur, Neds (dir), True North, Children Of Men, Criminal (2004), The Magdalene Sisters (director), On a Clear Day, Young Adam, The Claim (2000), Orphans (director), Miss Julie, My Name Is Joe, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Riff Raff
• Ophelia Lovibond: Rocketman, W1A (TV), The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Man Up, 8 Minutes Idle, Guardians of the Galaxy, Turnout, Mr Popper’s Penguins, Chatroom, 4-3-2-1, Nowhere Boy
• Sam Neill: Jurassic World 6 – Dominion, Peter Rabbit, The Commuter, Sweet Country, Thor 3 – Ragnarok, The Adventurer – The Curse of the Midas Box, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, The Daughter, Backtrack, Peaky Blinders (TV), A Long Way Down, Escape Plan, The Vow, The Hunter, Legend of the Guardians – The Owls of Ga Ho’ole (voice), Daybreakers, In Her Skin, Dean Spanley, Little FIsh, Wimbledon, Yes, Dirty Deeds, Jurassic Park 3, The Dish, Bicentennial Man, The Horse Whisperer, Event Horizon, Snow White (1997), Victory (1996), Children of the Revolution, Restoration, The Jungle Book (1994), In The Mouth of Madness, A Country Life, Sirens, The Piano, Jurassic Park,  Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Until The End of the World, Death In Brunswick, The Hunt for Red October, Dead Calm, A Cry In The Dark, Plenty, Reilly – Ace of Spies (TV), Attack Force Z, The Omen 3, My Brilliant Career, Sleeping Dogs, Landfall
• Therese Bradley: Calibre, Half-Light
• Ian Pirie: Calibre, Chernobyl (TV), Winter Ridge, DaVinci’s Demons (TV), Sunset Song, Pressure (2015),  I Am Soldier, Who Needs Enemies?
• Max Deacon: Take Down, The Call Up, Into The Storm, I Anna, Summer In February
• Paul Tinto: The Party’s Just Beginning
• Andy Gray: Rab C Nesbitt (TV),  The Match, This Year’s Love, The Baldy Man (TV), Small Faces, Naked Video (TV)
• Benjamin Wainwright: The Boy With The Top Knot
• Paul Reid: The Ritual, Boy Eats Girl
• Nicky Henson: Tango One, We Still Steal The Old Way, Draw On Sweet Night, Narcopolis, We Still Kill The Old Way, Truth or Dare, Eastenders (TV), Me Without You, Parting Shots, Shine On Harvey  Moon (TV), Anyone For Sex?, There’s a Girl In My Soup, The Death Wheelers, All Coppers Are…, Witchfinder General, The Frost Report (TV)
• Peter Ferdinando: Muscle, Vita and Virginia, Happy New Year Colin Burstead, Blue Iguana, King Arthur – Legend of the Sword, Ghost In The Shell (2017), Lost In London, High-Rise, Hyena, Starred Up, A Field In England, Turnout, Snow White and The Huntsman, Tony

THE YOUNG OFFENDERS

6 out of 10

REVIEW COMING SOON

Irish film

Release date: 13th January 2017

Director: Peter Foott (Young Offenders (TV))

Cast: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose, Dominic MacHale, PJ Gallagher, Shane Casey and Pascal Scott

Writer: Peter Foott

Trailer: THE YOUNG OFFENDERS

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Alex Murphy: The Young Offenders (TV)
• Chris Walley: 1917, The Young Offenders (TV)
• Hilary Rose: The Young Offenders (TV), Sacrifice
• Dominic MacHale: The Young Offenders (TV)
• PJ Gallagher: The Young Offenders (TV)
• Shane Casey: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
• Pascal Scott: Grabbers

THE SNOWMAN (2017)

2.5 out of 10

UK/Norway co-production

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 13th October 2017

Director: Alfred Tomason (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Let The Right One In (2008))

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonas Karlsson, David Dencik, Ronan Vibert, Toby Jones, Adrian Dunbar, James D’Arcy, Genevieve O’Reilly, Jete Laurence, Michael Yates, Alec Newman, Leonard Heinemann, Sofia Helin, Peter Dalle, Anne Reid, Jakob Oftebro and Chloe Sevigny with JK Simmons and Val Kilmer

Writer: Peter Straughan, Hossein Amini and Soren Sveistrip / Jo Nesbo

Trailer:  THE SNOWMAN (2017)

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Michael Fassbender: X Men 6 – Dark Phoenix, Song to Song, Alien Covenant, Trespass Against Us, Assassin’s Creed, X-Men 5 – Apocalypse, The Light Between Oceans, Steve Jobs, Macbeth (2015), Slow West, Frank, X Men – Days of Future Past, 12 Years a Slave, The Counsellor, Prometheus, Haywire, Shame, A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre (2011), Centurion, X Men- First Class, Jonah Hex, Inglourious Basterds, Fish Tank, Eden Lake, Hunger, 300, Band Of Brothers (TV)
• Rebecca Ferguson: Dune (2020), Mission Impossible 7, Doctor Sleep, Men in Black 4 – International, The Kid Who Would Be King, Mission Impossible 6 – Fallout, The Greatest Showman, Life (2017), The Girl On The Train, Florence Foster Jenkins, Despite The Falling Snow, Mission Impossible 5 – Rogue Nation, Hercules (2014)
• Charlotte Gainsborg: I Think We’re Alone Now, Dark Crimes, Independence Day 2 – Resurgence, Samba, Nymphomanic II, Nymphomaniac, Melancholia, The Tree, Antichrist, I’m Not There, The Science of Sleep, 21 Grams, Love etc., Jane Eyre (1996), The Cement Garden, Autobus
• David Dencik: Chernobyl (TV), The Kindness of Strangers, McMafia (TV), Top of the Lake (TV), Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, Serena, The Homesman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009)
• Ronan Vibert: 6 Days, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV), Dracula Untold, Saving Mr Banks, The Last Seven, The Borgias (TV), Rome (TV), Shadow Of The Vampire
• Toby Jones: Out of Blue, Christopher Robin (voice), Jurassic Park 5 – Jurassic World, Detectorists (TV), Happy End, Journey’s End, Atomic Blonde, Wayward Pines (TV), Tale of Tales, Anthropoid, Morgan, Dad’s Army (2016), Alice In Wonderland 2 (voice), The Man Who Knew Infinity, Serena, Hunger Games – Mockingjay 2, By The Gun, Marvellous, Muppets Most Wanted, Captain American 2, My Week With Marilyn, Snow White & The Huntsman,  The Berberian Sound Studio, The Hunger Games, Red Lights, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tintin (voice), Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows- part 1 (voice), Captain America, Your Highness, The Rite, Sex Drugs and Rock N’ Roll, St Trinians 2, Nightwatching,  Creation, W., Frost / Nixon, City Of Ember, St Trinians, The Mist, The Painted Veil, Infamous, Mrs Henderson Presents, Finding Neverland, Ladies In Lavender, Harry Potter & The Chambers Of Secrets, Simon Magus
• Adrian Dunbar: The Line of Duty (TV),  The Secret Scripture, The Hollow Crown (TV), Mother’s Milk, Good Vibrations, Shooters, Wild About Harry, The Wedding Tackle, The General (1998), Richard III (1995), The Near Room, Innocent Lies, Widow’s Peak, The Crying Game, The Playboys, Hear My Song, My Left Foot
• James D’Arcy: Avengers 4 – Endgame, Homeland (TV), Dunkirk, Survivor (2015), Agent Carter (TV),  Jupiter Ascending, Let’s Be Cops, The Cloud Atlas, Hitchcock, W/E, The Age Of Heroes, Screwed (2011), Exorcist – The Beginning, Cloud Atlas, Master & Commander – The Far Side Of The World, An American Haunting, Flashbacks Of a Fool, The Trench
• Genevieve O’Reilly: Tin Star (TV), Tolkein, The Kid Who Would Be King, Star Wars – Rebels (voice) (TV), Star Wars – Rogue One, The Legend of Tarzan, Survivor (2015), Banished (TV), Episodes (TV), Forget Me Not
• Jete Laurence: Pet Sematery (2019)
• Alec Newman: Where Hands Touch, The Marine 6 – Close Quarters, Inspector Lewis (TV), Greyhawk, 24 (TV), Waterloo Road (TV), A Lonely Place To Die, Long Time Dead, G:MT, Casualty (TV)
• Anne Reid: SAS – Red Notice, The Nest, The Aeronauts, Electric Dreams (TV), Last Tango In Halifax (TV), Believe, Song For Marion, Cemetery Junction, Faintheart, Wallace & Gromit In Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (voice), Hot Fuzz, The Mother, Love and Death On Long Island, Coronation Street (TV)
• Chloe Sevigny: The Dead Don’t Die, Lizzie, Lean On Pete, Bloodline (TV),  The Dinner, Love & Friendship, American Horror Story (TV), Lovelace, Mr Nice, Big Love (TV), My Son My Son What Have Ye Done?, Zodiac, Broken Flowers, Manderlay, Melinda and Melinda, Shattered Glass, The Brown Bunny, Dogville, Party Monster, American Psycho, Julien Donkey Boy, Boys Don’t Cry, Last Days Of Disco, Palmetto, Gummo, Trees Lounge, Kids
• JK Simmons: American Dad (TV)(voice), The Simpsons (TV)(voice), The Front Runner, Justice League, The Bachelors, Patriot’s Day, The Accountant, La La Land, Zootopia (voice), Kung Fu Panda 3 (voice), Terminator 5 – Genysis, Whiplash, Labor Day, Dark Skies, Jobs, Contraband, The Good Doctor, True Grit (2011), Cats & Dogs 2 – The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Law & Order (TV), Jennifer’s Body, Up In The Air, I Love You Man, Burn After Reading, Rendition, Juno, Spiderman 3, Harsh Times, Thank You For Smoking, Spiderman 2, The Ladykillers (2004), Hidalgo, Spiderman, The Mexican, The Gift (2000), For The Love of the Game, Cider House Rules, Celebrity, The Jackal, The First Wives’ Club, The Ref
• Val Kilmer: Top Gun 2 – Maverick, Song to Song, Palo Alto, Planes (voice), 7 Below, Twixt, Blood Out, Kill The Irishman, Knight Rider (TV)(voice), Felon, Deja Vu, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Alexander, Mindhunters, Spartan, The Missing (2007), Wonderland (2003), The Salton Sea, Red Planet, Pollock, At First Sight, Prince of Egypt (voice), The Saint, The Ghost & The Darkness, The Island of Dr Moreau (1996), Heat (1996), Batman Forever, Tombstone, The Real McCoy, True Romance, Thunderheart, The Doors, Kill Me Again, Willow, Top Gun, Top Secret!

 

 

THE JOURNEY

5 out of 10

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 5th May 2017

Director: Nick Hamm (Driven (2019) / Killing Bono / Godsend / The Hole (2001) / Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence)

Cast: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, John Hurt, Toby Stephens, Barry Ward, Catherine McCormack, Mark Lambert with Ian Beattie and Ian McElhinney

Writer: Colin Bateman

Trailer: THE JOURNEY

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Timothy Spall: Stanley – A Man of Variety, Finding Your Feet, Early Man (voice), Electric Dreams (TV), Hatton Garden (TV), The Party, Denial, Alice in Wonderland 2 – Through The Looking Glass (voice), Away, Mr Turner,  The Love Punch, The Rise, Love Bite, Comes a Bright Day, Harry Potter 8 – The Deathly Hallows 2, Ginger and Rosa, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter 7 – The Deathly Hallows 1, Wake Wood, Heartless, Reuniting The Rubins, Harry Potter 6 – The Half-Blood Prince, Alice In Wonderland (2011) (voice), Apaloosa, The Damned Utd, Sweeney Todd, Pierrepoint, Harry Potter 5 – The Order of the Phoenix,  Harry Potter 4 – The Goblet of Fire, Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events, Harry Potter 3 – The Prisoner of Azkhaban, The Last Samurai, Gettin’ Square, Nicholas Nickleby (2002),  All Or Nothing, Vanilla Sky, Rock Star, Lucky Break, Chicken Run (voice), Loves Labours Lost,  Topsy Turvy, Still Crazy, Wisdom Of Crocodiles, Hamlet (1996), Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet, The Sheltering Sky, White Hunter Black Heart, To Kill a Priest, The Missionary, Auf Wierdesen Pet (TV), Quadrophenia
• Colm Meaney: Pele – Birth of a Legend, One Chance, A Belfast Story, Alan Partridge – Alpha Papa, The Hot Potato, The Cold Light Of Day, Bel Ami, Parked, Three and Out, Get Him To The Greek,  The Damned Utd, Intermission, This Is My Father, Claire Dolan, Con Air, The Road To Wellville, War Of The Buttons, The Committments, The Snapper, The Van, Star Trek – Deep Space 9 (TV), Under Siege, Into the West, The Last Of The Mohicans (1992), Far and Away, Die Hard 2
• Freddie Highmore: Bates Motel (TV), Almost Friends, Justin & The Knights of Valour (voice), The Art of Getting By, AstroBoy (voice), The Spiderwick Chronicles, August Rush, The Golden Compass (voice), Arthur & The Invisibles (TV), A Good Year, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (2005), Five Children & It, Finding Neverland
• John Hurt: Damascus Cover, That Good Night, My Name Is Lenny,  Jackie, ChickLit, Snowpiercer, Hercules (2014), Only Lovers Left Alive, Doctor Who – Day of the Doctor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Immortals (2011), Brighton Rock (2011), Harry Potter 8 – The Deathly Hallows – part 2, Harry Potter 7 – The Deathly Hallows, Melancholia,  New York I Love You, 44 Inch Chest, The Limits Of Control, V For Vendetta, Hellboy 2 – The Golden Army, Outlander, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone, Hellboy, Perfume, The Oxford Murders, The Skeleton Key, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,  The Proposition, Lost Souls, Contact, Night Train, You’re Dead, All The Little Animals, Love and Death On Long Island, WIld Bill (1995), Dead Man, Rob Roy, Second Best, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Monolith, King Ralph, The Field, Scandal, White Mischief, Heaven’s Gate, The Elephant Man, 1984, Watership Down (voice), Midnight Express, Alien, The Naked Civil Servant, 10 Rillington Place, Little Malcolm
• Toby Stephens: Hunter Killer, Lost In Space (TV), Black Sails (TV), 13hrs – The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Believe, The Machine (2014), All Things To All Men, Severance, The Ballad of Mangal Pandey, James Bond- Die Another Day, Possession (2002), Space Cowboys, Onegin, Photographing Fairies, Twelfth Night (1996)
• Barry Ward: Maze, Shooting For Socrates, Blood Cells, Bypass, Jimmy’s Hall, The Claim (2000)
• Catherine McCormack: Magic In The Moonlight, The Fold, 28 Weeks Later, Renaissance (voice), The Sound of Thunder, Spy Game, The Tailor of Panama, Born Romantic, The Weight of Water, Shadow of a Vampire, This Year’s Love, Dancing At Lughnasa, The Land Girls, North Star, Braveheart
• Mark Lambert: Veronica Guerin, A Prayer For The Dying
• Ian Beattie: Papillon (2018), Of Gods and Warriors, Gangland Revenge, Game of Thrones (TV), Line of Duty (TV), A Belfast Story,  Starred Up
• Ian McElhinney: Sacrifice, Dave Allen at Peace, Bad Day For The Cut, Star Wars – Rogue One, Ripper Street (TV), Game Of Thrones (TV), Titanic (TV), Borstal Boy, Divorcing Jack, The Boxer, This Is The Sea, Hamlet (1996), The Boy From Mercury, Small Faces, The Playboys, Anne Devlin

SANCTUARY

3 out of 10

THIS IS AN IRISH FILM

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 7th July 2017

Director: Len Collin

Cast: Robert Doherty, Kieran Coppinger, Charlene Kelly, Richard Hickey, Jennifer Cox, Patrick Becker, Frank Butcher, Paul Connolly, Valerie Egan, Michael Hayes, Emer Macken, Karen Murphy,  Christopher Dunne and Stephen Marcus

Writer: Christian O’Reilly

Trailer: SANCTUARY

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Stephen Marcus: Dark Ascension, Rizen 2, Fanged Up, Walk Like a Panther, Rise of the Footsoldier 3, The Rizen, Eliminators, Gridiron UK,  The London Firm, The Smoke, It’s a Lot, Fast and The Furious 6, Interview With A Hitman, Ninja Assassin, The Baby Juice Express, Kinky Boots, Stage Beauty, Quills, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Hear My Song, My Beautiful Laundrette

 

CHUBBY FUNNY

7.5 out of 10

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 30th June 2017

Director: Harry Michell (Ilkley)

Cast: Harry Michell, Augustus Prew, Isabella Laughland, Olivia Ross, Asim Chaudhry, Dave Benson Phillips, Jeff Rawle, Anna Maxwell Martin, Phoebe Nicholls, and David Bamber with Alice Lowe, Jemma Redgrave and Julian Rhind-Tutt

Writer: Harry Michell

Trailer: CHUBBY FUNNY

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Harry Michell: Ilkley (dir), Double Date, Yesterday, The Mother
• Augustus Prew: Ibiza, Prison Break (TV), High-Rise, Charlie St.Cloud
• Isabella Laughland: Chimerica (TV), Slaughterhouse Rulez, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, Urban Hymn
• Olivia Ross: Non Fiction, War & Peace (TV), Eden
• Asim Chaudhry: Eaten by Lions, Black Mirror – Bandersnatch, People Just Do Nothing (TV), Happy New Year Colin Burstead, Hoff The Record (TV)
• Jeff Rawle: Hollyoaks (TV), Drop The Dead Donkey (TV), Doc Martin (TV), Doctor Who (TV)
• Anna Maxwell Martin: Ilkley, Alan Partridge – Alpha Papa, Philomena, Bleak House (TV)
• Phoebe Nicholls: Finding Your Feet, Transformers 5 – The Last Knight, Starfish, Fortitude (TV), Downton Abbey (TV), Shackleton (TV), Fairy Tale, Maurice, The Missionary, Brideshead Revisited (TV), The Elephant Man, Women In Love
• David Bamber: Peterloo, A Very English Scandal (TV), Darkest Hour, The Limehouse Golem, Borg vs. McEnroe, Mad To Be Normal, Psychoville (TV), Valkyrie, The All Together, Rome (TV), Miss Potter, I Capture The Castle, Pride & Prejudice (1995) (TV), Buddha of Suburbia (TV), Dakota Road, High Hopes, The Doctor and the Devils, Privates On Parade
• Alice Lowe: Solis (voice), The Ghoul, Prevenge (dir), Adult Life Skills, Stoner Express, Burn Burn Burn, Black Mountain Poets, Aaaaaaaah!, Electricity, Paddington, Locke (voice), The World’s End, Sightseers, This Is Jinsy (TV), Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place (TV)
• Jemma Redgrave: Holby City (TV), Love & Friendship, Doctor Who (TV), Doctor Who – Day of the Doctor, Lassie (2005), I’ll Be There, The Acid House, Bramwell (TV), The Buddha of Suburbia (TV), Howard’s End
• Julian Rhind-Tutt: Rizen 2 – The Return, Dave Allen at Peace, The Rizen, Burn Burn Burn, Bridget Jones 3, Aaaaaaaah!, The Wipers Times, Castles In The Sky, Banished (TV), A Touch of Cloth (TV), Lucy, Inside No.9 (TV), Rush (2013), Gambit (2012), Your Highness, Stardust, Green Wing (TV), To Kill a King, Miranda, Lara Croft -Tomb Raider, The Trench, Notting Hill

THE PARTY

5.5 out of 10

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 13th October 2017

Director: Sally Potter (Ginger & Rosa / Rage / Yes / The Man Who Cried / The Tango Lesson / Orlando)

Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Cherry Jones and Bruno Ganz

Writer: Sally Potter

Trailer: THE PARTY

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Kristin Scott Thomas: Tomb Raider (2018), Darkest Hour, My Old Lady, Suite Francaise, The Invisible Woman, Only God Forgives, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, Bel Ami, The Woman In The Fifth, Sarah’s Key, Love Crime, Leaving, Nowhere Boy, Confessions Of a Shopaholic, Largo Winch, Easy Virtue, The Other Boleyn Girl, I’ve Love You So Long, The Golden Compass (voice), The Walker, Keeping Mum, Chromophobia, Code 46, Gosford Park, Up At The Villa, Random Hearts, The horse Whisperer, The English Patient, Mission Impossible, Angels & Insects, Richard III (1995), Le Confessional, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bitter Moon, Autobus, A Handful Of Dust
• Timothy Spall: Finding Your Feet, Early Man (voice), Electric Dreams (TV), Hatton Garden (TV), The Journey, Denial, Alice In Wonderland 2 (voice), Away, Mr Turner,  The Love Punch, The Rise, Love Bite, Comes a Bright Day, Ginger and Rosa, The King’s Speech, Harry Potter – parts 3 – 8, Wake Wood, Reuniting The Rubins, Heartless, Alice In Wonderland (2011) (voice), Apaloosa, The Damned Utd, Sweeney Todd, Pierrepoint, Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events, The Last Samurai, Nicholas Nickleby (2002),  All Or Nothing, Vanilla Sky, Rock Star, Lucky Break, Chicken Run (voice), Loves Labours Lost,  Topsy Turvy, Still Crazy, Wisdom Of Crocodiles, Hamlet (1996), Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet, The Sheltering Sky, White Hunter Black Heart, To Kill a Priest, The Missionary, Auf Wierdesen Pet (TV), Quadrophenia
• Patricia Clarkson: Maze Runner 3, House of Cards (TV), Maze Runner 2, Maze Runner, One Day, The East, Friends With Benefits, Easy A, Shutter Island, Whatever Works, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Elegy, Lars and The Real Girl, Good Night and Good Luck, Six Feet Under (TV), Dogville, The Station Agent, Pieces Of April, All The Real Girls, Welcome To Collinwood, Far From Heaven, The Pledge, The Green Mile, High Art, Jumanji
• Cillian Murphy: Dunkirk, Peaky Blinders (TV), Free Fire, Anthropoid, In The Heart of the Sea, Transcendence, Broken (2013), The Dark Knight Rises, Red Lights, In Time, Retreat, Tron 2, Inception, The Dark Knight, Sunshine (2007), The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Breakfast On Pluto, Red Eye, Batman Begins, Cold Mountain, Girl With a Pearl Earring,  Intermission, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Disco Pigs, The Trench
• Emily Mortimer: Mary Poppins Returns, The Sense of an Ending, Spectral, Rio I Love You, Hugo, Cars 2 (voice), Shutter Island, Harry Brown, The Pink Panther 2, Redbelt, Lars and the Real Game, Paris Je T’Aime, Match Point, Howl’s Moving Castle (voice), Dear Frankie, Bright Young Things, Young Adam, Formula 51, Lovely & Amazing, The Kid (2000), Love’s Labours Lost, Scream 3, Notting Hill, Elizabeth I, The Last of the High Kings, The Ghost and The Darkness
• Cherry Jones: Transparent (TV), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, I Saw The Light, Knight of Cups, The Beaver, 24 (TV), Ocean’s Twelve, The Village, Signs, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The Perfect Storm, Erin Brokovich, Cradle Will Rock, The Horse Whisperer, HouseSitter
• Bruno Ganz: In Order of Disappearance, The Counsellor, Night Train To Lisbon, Unknown, The Reader, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Youth Without Youth, Downfall, The Manchuian Candidate, Eternity and a Day, Faraway So Close, The Last Days of Chez-Nous, Prague, Strapless, Wings of Desire, Nosferatu The Vampyr (1979), The Boys From Brazil, The American Friend

BRAKES

4 out of 10

REVIEW COMING SOON

Release date: 24th November 2017

Director: Mercedes Grower

Cast: Noel Fielding, Mercedes Grower, Julia Davis, Peter Wight, Julian Barratt, Oliver Maltman, Kerry Fox, Roland Gift, Steve Oram, Kelly Campbell, Seb Cardinal, Juliet Cowan, Siobhan Hewlett, John Milroy, Martin Hancock, Salena Godden, Morgan Thomas, Daniel Roch, Peter Barrett with Kate Hardie and Paul McGann

Deviser: Mercedes Grower

Trailer: BRAKES

WHAT HAVE I SEEN THAT ACTOR IN BEFORE?

• Noel Fielding: The Great British Bake Off (TV)(presenter), Set Fire To The Thames, Aaaaaaaaah!, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy (TV), The IT Crowd (TV), Horrid Henry – The Movie, Come On Eileen, Bunny & The Bull, The Mighty Boosh (TV), Nathan Barley (TV)
• Mercedes Grower: Sixteen, Come On Eileen
• Julia Davis: Phantom Thread, Psychobitches (TV), Cemetery Junction, Four Lions, Come On Eileen, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, Confetti, Sex Lives Of The Potato Men, Love Actually, Big Train (TV)
• Peter Wight: Only You, The Sense of an Ending, Another Mother’s Son, Trespass Against Us, Ethel & Ernest (voice), Kon Tiki, Mr Turner, The Look Of Love, My Week With Marilyn, Hardboiled Sweets, Ghosted, Best Laid Plans (2012), Clone, Another Year, Cass, Hot Fuzz, Babel, Flood, Pride & Prejudice (2005), Vera Drake, Shiner, Naked, Mean Time
• Julian Barratt: In Fabric, Mindhorn, Aaaaaaaaah!,  The Harry Hill Movie, A Field In England, Bunny and The Bull, Nathan Barley (TV), The Mighty Boosh (TV)
• Oliver Maltman: Beast, The Mercy, The Sense of An Ending, Mr Turner, Another Year, Happy Go Lucky
• Kerry Fox: Holding The Man, The Dressmaker, The Crimson Field (TV), Mental, Trap For Cinderella, Intruders, Cloud Street (TV), Bright Star, The Ferryman, Black & White (2002), Intimacy, Fanny & Elvis, The Darkest Light, The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, The Hanging Garden, Welcome To Sarajevo, Country Life, Shallow Grave, Friends (1993), The Last Days Of Chez Nous, An Angel At My Table
• Roland Gift: Highlander (TV), Scandal, Sammie & Rose Get Laid
• Steve Oram: In Fabric, A Dark Song, Aaaaaaaah!, Captain Webb, The Canal, The Bad Education Movie, The Haunting of Radcliffe House, Paddington, Cuban Fury, The World’s End, Sightseers
• Kelly Campbell: Vikings (TV)
• John Milroy: Come On Eileen
• Martin Hancock: 6 Days, The Guvnors, Screwed (2011), Coronation Street (TV), Trauma, Defiance, Hell To Pay, 24 Hour Party People
• Peter Barrett: Age of the Living Dead (TV), Devil’s Tower, Shame The Devil, The Hooligan Factory, The Hooligan Wars, White Collar Hooligan 2, Fall Of The Essex Boys, UFO (2013), GBH, Rise and Fall Of a White Collar Hooligan, Airborne (2012), Ghosted, How To Stop Being a Loser, Jack Falls, Come On Eileen
• Kate Hardie: Criminal Justice (TV), Croupier, Jack & Sarah, Under The Sun, The Krays, Cry Freedom, Mona Lisa, Revolution, Runners
• Paul McGann: Holby City (TV), B&B, Pressure (voice), Luther (TV), Dr Who – Day of the Doctor, Dr Who (TV), Lesbian Vampire Killers, Gypo, Queen Of The Damned, My Kingdom, Downtime, The Three Musketeers (1994), Alien 3, Afraid Of The Dark, Paper Mask, Dealers, The Rainbow, Empire of the Sun, Withnail & I, The Monocled Mutineer

STOCKHOLM, MY LOVE

7.5 out of 10

UK/Sweden co-production

Release date: 16th June 2017

Director: Mark Cousins (I Am Belfast (doc))

Cast: Neneh Cherry

Writer: Anita Oxburgh, Neneh Cherry & Mark Cousins

Trailer: STOCKHOLM, MY LOVE

Now for something completely different. Former film critic Mark Cousins steps behind the camera for his first fictional feature film and it’s a introspective, interest work of deceptive simplicity.  I felt like I was watching a less-elusive version of a recent Terence Malick film – you know, the ones with no script, lots of whispering, and pretty actresses doing cartwheels in meadows whilst stubbly male leads stalk neon drenched strip clubs. However, Mark Cousins has packed a script, a narrative and an interesting story, as slight as it is, into this cinema mini-break to Stockholm with a twist.

Singer and former 80s pop-star, rapper Neneh Cherry plays an architect, called Alva, who is due to do a talk on the architecture of her city, the Swedish capital Stockholm, but whilst preparing, she begins to wonder what her late (I presume) father would make of the city nowadays. She is reminded of the tragic murder by assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. And then she reflects and then dwells on a road accident that she was central to in her recent past. She can’t face the talk, so she disappears into the city parks, streets, riverbanks and even the fun fair. The first half of the film is her putting her thoughts down coherently, the second half is more abstract and where she attempts to piece herself together again by just listening and looking, not thinking or remembering – just feeling the city. Letting her city where she grew up salve her wounds.

If you like this kind of film, you’ll be enraptured as it lenses Stockholm on the bleakest and most non-descript autumn days, or is it winter or early spring? The cinematographer captures the place in all its beauty – even a concrete housing complex looks pleasant, as we are asked to appraise, briefly, the architectural work of Apslund and others. Music and song are used to enrich the whole composition and its welcome, but its the script and Neneh Cherry’s debut performance that make this a must-see in my book. What could have been a disastrous film-student-style project for polar neck wearing muppets is instead a moving portrayal of sadness, inner-strength and salvation. Wonderful.

7.5 out of 10 – This isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but if you aren’t in a rush and want to see something relaxing and quietly impressive, this might just do the trick.  A welcome change of pace if you like your art-house movies to have a heartbeat.