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Duration 1h 56m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story A script based on a Marvel superhero comic book story Director S.J. Clarkson Writers/Script Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Claire Parker, S.J. Clarkson Starring Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott Ratings IMDb: 4.0/10. … Continue reading
Duration 1h 52m Ratings UK: 18, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story Real events in America in 1981. Director Michael Chaves Writers/Script David Leslie Johnson McGoldrick Starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O’Connor, John Noble, Eugenie Bondurant, Ratings IMDb: 6.3/10 by 145k people . Rotten Tomatoes: 5.8/10 by 256 reviewers. Review2view: 6/10. Plot of … Continue reading
Duration 1h 54m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Spain: 12 Source of story An original screenplay Director Rodrigo Cortés Writers/Script Rodrigo Cortés Starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Nero, Toby Jones, Joely Richardson, Elizabeth Olsen, Burn Gorman, Ratings IMDb: 6.2/10 by 67k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 4.85/10 by 92 reviewers. Review2view: 6.8/10. Plot of Red … Continue reading
Duration 1h 33m Ratings UK: 12, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 7 Source of story Just a sort of continuation of the previous film, with the same characters. Based on a book by Mickey Rapkin Director Trish Sie Writers/Script Kay Cannon, Mike White Starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Haolee Steinfield, Elizabeth Banks, John Lithgow, DJ Khaled, Ruby … Continue reading
Duration 1h 32m Ratings UK: 12, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 12 Source of story A riff on previous submarine dramas including Up Perescope and the Hunt for Red October Director David S. Ward Writers/Script Hugh Wilson, Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald, Starring Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dea Stanton, Bruce Dern, William H. Macey, Rip … Continue reading
Duration 1h 43m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story An original screenplay Director Don Michael Paul Writers/Script Don Michael Paul Starring Amaury Nolasco, Devon Sawa, Yael Eitan, Shanti Ashanti, Robert Patrick Ratings IMDb: 5.3/10 by 4.4k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 0% by 1 reviewer. Review2view: 5/10. Plot of Jarhead: Law of Return. … Continue reading
Duration 1h 44m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Spain: 18 Source of story An original screenplay Director Robert Rodriguez Writers/Script David Wechter, Bruce Kimmel, Kevin Williamson Starring Jordana Brewster, Laura Harris, Famke Janssen, Robert Patrick, Jon Stewart, Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Salma Hayek, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Ratings IMDb: 6.6/10 by 138k people. Rotten Tomatoes: … Continue reading
Duration 1h 50m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story A Danish film of the same name (but in Danish) Director James Watkins Writers/Script James Watkins Starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Aisling Francis, Ratings IMDb: 7.2/10 by 18k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 83% bby 186 reviewers. Review2view: 7/10. Plot of Speak … Continue reading
Duration 1h 32m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Spain: 16 Source of story An original screenplay – only the title is a copy. Director Pierre Morel Writers/Script Adi Hasak (story Luc Besson) Starring John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden, Ratings IMDb: 6.4/10 by 122k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 38%. Review2view: 6.8/10. Plot of … Continue reading
Duration 1h 55m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story An original screenplay Director Simon West Writers/Script Scott Rosenberg Starring Colm Meaney, John Malkovitch, Ving Rhames, Rachel Ticotin, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Ratings IMDb: 6.9/10 by 324k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 58% by 71 reviewers. Review2view: 7/10. Plot of … Continue reading
Duration 1h 38m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 7 Source of story Said to be based on “A Streetcar Names Desire”. Director Woody Allen Writers/Script Woody Allen Starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, Ratings IMDb: 7.3/10 by 214k people . Rotten Tomatoes: 90% by 233 reviewers. Review2view: … Continue reading
Duration 1h 35m Ratings UK: -, USA: R, Denmark: – Source of story An original screenplay Director Martin Owen Writers/Script Seth Johnson, Elizabeth Morris, Martin Owen Starring Tim McInnerny, Elizabeth Morris, Jessica Alba, Gary Oldman, Sadie Frost, Ratings IMDb: 4/10 by 10k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 0% by 9 reviewers. Review2view: 0/10. Plot of Killers Anonymous: … Continue reading
Duration 1h 47m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story A script based on the predator characters, Director Shane Black Writers/Script Fred Dekker, Shane Black Starring Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Tremblay, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Jake Busey, Ratings IMDb: 5.3/10 by 146k people . Rotten Tomatoes: 34% by 299 reviewers. Review2view: 5/10 . … Continue reading
Duration 1h 45m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story The characters and to some extent the story from the first film Director Tim Burton Writers/Script Alfred Gough, Miles Millar Starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Burn Gorman, Danny DeVito, Ratings … Continue reading
Duration 1h 50m Ratings UK: Not released, USA: R, Spain: 16 Source of story A 2010 book of the same name by Paul Lindsay Director Renny Harlin Writers/Script Pete Travis, Hanna Weg Starring Aaron Eckhart, Nina Dobrev, Clifton Collins Jr, Tim Blake Nelson, Oliver Trevena, Ratings IMDb: 5.2/10 by 10k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 48% by … Continue reading
Duration 1h 59m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story A riff on the original film Director Fede Alavarez Writers/Script Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues Starring Cailee Spaaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabel Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu Ratings IMDb: 7.4/10 by 95k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 80% by 362 reviewers. Review2view: 6.8/10. Plot … Continue reading
Duration 1h 41m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story An original screenplay, but which leans heavily on previous vigilante outings. Director Pierre Morel Writers/Script Chad St. John Starring Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba Ratings IMDb: 6.5/10 by 72k people . Rotten Tomatoes: 3.6/10 by 151 reviewers. … Continue reading
Duration 1h 49m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story An original screenplay. Director John Badham Writers/Script Dan O’Bannon, Don Jakoby Starring Roy Schneider, Warren oats, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Joe Santos, Malcolm McDowell, Anna Forrest Ratings IMDb: 6.4/10 by 24k people . Rotten Tomatoes: 6.6/10 by 23 reviewers. Review2view: 5/10. Plot … Continue reading
Duration 1h 43m Ratings UK: 18, USA: R, Sweden: 15 Source of story A continuation of the X and Pearl story Director Ti West Writers/Script Ti West Starring Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Lily Collins, Ratings IMDb: 6.4/10 by 32k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 6.5/10 by 271 reviewers, Review2view: … Continue reading
Duration 1h 26m Ratings UK: 15, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story An original screenplay Director Ryan Beligardt Writers/Script Ryan Beligardt, Galen Christy, Adam Hampton Starring Ryan Merriman, Perrey Reeves, Adam Hampton, Katie Burgess, Cate Jones, Luke Wychoff, Ratings IMDb: 3.9/10 by 3.2k people. Rotten Tomatoes: Nil. Review2view: 3/10. The Plot of the Jurassic … Continue reading
THE FORGOTTEN ONE In June 2012 British Prime Minister, David Cameron, left his eight year old daughter at a pub by accident. He and his wife Samantha had left in different cars and each had assumed that the girl was with the other. At a writer’s course I attended we were asked to write a … Continue reading
‘Ladies and gentlemen.‘Before the birth of Christ, pilgrims from all over the north part of the European continent walked to the edge of the world. This was before France or Spain came into existence, and even before the Romans occupied the whole of the southern part of the land mass. Who knows how far back … Continue reading
TALKING ABOUT TIME We are sitting on a veranda of an Indian bungalow on a hillside in Rajasthan and are discussing some philosophical questions. He is said to be a wizard, apparently capable of changing the status of our world, I am the head of the government so I have an interest in his capabilities.‘Firstly,’ … Continue reading
The Ollie is back in the Firth of Forth after the Jutland disaster. In the battle over six thousand good men have died, several of our major units have been blown up, and even so the German fleet has got away.If Beatty had made a mistake it was to allow the battleships to trail along … Continue reading
CHAPTER 1 – THE PROLOGUE JONES. ’We were a platoon of Royal Engineers surveying the approaches to a village in Helmand, in order to build a road, when we came under fire. Of course it happens quite a bit. The infantry go in and clear an area and then bugger off back to base for … Continue reading
BUREAUCRACY The curtain open on a line of five chairs ranged across from stage left to stage right. They are close to each other. Separately, stage left, there is a desk with a chair behind it at a slight angle towards centre stage. There is a carafe of water, a glass and a telephone on … Continue reading
Duration 1h 32m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Netherlands: 12 Source of story A stage play of the same name by C.P. Taylor. Director Vincente Amorin Writers/Script John Wrathall Starring Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Strong, Gemma Jones, Ratings IMDb: 6.2/10. Rotten Tomatoes: . Review2view: 6.3/10 Plot of Good: John Halder, a professor … Continue reading
Duration 1h 42m Ratings UK: 12A, Source of story An original screenplay Director David Koepp Writers/Script David Koepp, John Kamps Starring Greg Kinnear, Ricky Gervais, Aasif Mandvi, Téa Leoni, Kristen Wiig, Ratings IMDb: 6.7/10 by 78k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 85% by 188 reviewers. Review2view: 7/10. Plot of Ghost Town: Bertram Pincus is a scowling dentist … Continue reading
Duration 1h 37m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story A film version of a French play of the same name by Florian Zeller Director Florian Zeller Writers/Script Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton Starring Anthony Hophins, Olivia Coleman, Mark Gatiss, olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, Ratings IMDb: 8.2/10 by 197k people. Rotten … Continue reading
Duration 1h 33m Ratings UK: 15, USA: Not Rated, France: 12 Source of story Seemingly based on Moby Dick Director Ken Locsmandi Writers/Script Ryan Colucci, Clay McLeod Chapman Starring Holt McCallany, Zukay Henao, Dave Sheridan, James Devoti, Jocko Sims, Kodi Kitchen, Mike Genovese, Tiffany Brouwer, Ratings IMDb: 4.5/10 by 2.3k people. Rotten Tomatoes: No reviews. … Continue reading
Duration 2h 28m Ratings UK: 15, USA: PG, Spain: 18 Source of story Loosely based on a novel of that name by Hans Hellmut Kirst Director Anatole Litvak Writers/Script Joseph Kessel, Paul Dehn Starring Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtney, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Phillippe Noiret, Charles Gray, John Gregson, Nigel Stock, Christopher Plummer, Gordon … Continue reading
Duration 2h 12m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story An original screenplay taking into account the conspiracy theory that the moonlanding was faked. Director Greg Berlanti Writers/Script Rose Gilroy Starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash, Ratings IMDb: 6.8/10 by 3.8k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 67% by 157 … Continue reading
Duration 1h 27m Ratings UK: 18, USA: R, France: 12 Source of story An original screenplay Director David Cronenberg Writers/Script David Cronenberg Starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, David Cronenberg, Ratings IMDb: 7.2/10 by 104k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 83% by 59 reviewers. Review2view: 6/10 . Plot of Videodrome: Max Renn is the boss of … Continue reading
Duration 1h 37m Ratings UK: 15, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 15 Source of story The previous film and characters in the Marvel comics Director Andy Serkis Writers/Script Kelly Marcel Starring Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Stephen Graham, Reece Shearsmith, Ratings IMDb: 5.9/10 by 263k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 57% by 281 reviewers. Review2view: 6.5/10. … Continue reading
Duration 1h 39m Ratings UK: 15, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 15 Source of story A prequel to the first and second films of the same name. Director Michael Sarnoski Writers/Script Michael Sarnoski Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, Ratings IMDb: 6.8/10 by 26k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 87% by 230 reviewers. Review2view: 7/10. Plot … Continue reading
Duration 2h 2m Ratings UK: X, USA: R, Spain: 18 Source of story Film of a book of the same name by William Diehl Director Burt Reynolds Writers/Script Gerald Di Pego Starring Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Henry Silva, Rachel Ward, Ratings IMDb: 6.3/10 by 6.8k people . Rotten Tomatoes: 83% by … Continue reading
Duration 2h 44m Ratings UK: 18, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story An original screenplay Director Yorgos Lanthimos Writers/Script Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou Starring Yorgos Stefanakos, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Joe Alwyn, Emma Stone, Ratings IMDb: 7.0/10 by 5.4k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 72% by 155 reviewers. Review2view: 7/10. Plots of … Continue reading
Duration 2h 3m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Norway: 5 Source of story A 1989 book of the same name by John Le Carré Director Fred Schepisi Writers/Script Tom Stoppard Starring Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Michael Kitchen, J.T.Walsh, Ken Russell, David Threlfall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice, … Continue reading
Duration 2h 19m Ratings UK: 15, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story A book of the same name by Patricia Highsmith Director Anthony Minghella Writers/Script Anthony Minghella Starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport, Ratings IMDb: 7.4/10 by 248k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 85% by 138 reviewers. Review2view: … Continue reading
Duration 1h 43m Ratings UK: 15, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story An original screenplay Director Michel Franco Writers/Script Michel Franco Starring Jessica Chastain, Brooke Timber, Peter Sarsgaard, Josh Charles, Jessica Harper, Ratings IMDb: 6.6/10 by 4.4k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 85% by 111 reviewers. Review2view: 6/10 . Plot of Memory: Sylvia is a woman … Continue reading
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