Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), this psychological thriller launches straight into the action with the kidnap of three teenage girls. Imprisoned in a dingy basement, they encounter their captor, Kevin (James McAvoy), and, one by one, meet several of his 23 personalities. The girls grapple to escape, whilst complex […]
A Street Cat Named Bob tells the true story of James (Luke Treadaway), a homeless busker and recovering heroin addict, who is given a second chance by his support worker who offers him accommodation. Enter the eponymous Bob (played by the real Bob, along with several stunt doubles), a charming ginger cat, who breaks into […]
his relentlessly wacky film centres on a corporation of storks, who, having abandoned their traditional role of delivering babies, have adapted their business to a simpler cargo: technology and other, less emotional, baggage. Amongst them lives a sweet-natured human, Tulip, an orphan the storks failed to home. When Nate, a lonely boy with workaholic parents, […]
Suicide Squad is director, David Ayer’s ultraviolent, electric exploration into the darker side of the DC Universe, bringing some of its lesser known supervillains into a psychedelic alternative reality. Pre-empting new ‘meta-human’ security threats, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assembles a team of anarchic, malevolent supervillains to protect the nation, coerced into duty in exchange for […]
Truth recounts the ‘Killian documents scandal’ of 2004, where an investigative team at CBS uncovered details of George W. Bush’s military record, airing their findings on the 60 minutes news programme. Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) and her team find that not only had Bush avoided service in Vietnam using nepotism to enlist in the prestigious […]
Trumbo tells the true story of Dalton Trumbo, a communist and screenwriter imprisoned for contempt of Congress and later blacklisted by Hollywood for his political views. In spite of this, he continued to write films, giving them to other writers as fronts to undermine the imposed blacklist. Despite the serious implications of the encroaching censorship, […]