Don’t Let Go centres around Jack Radcliff (David Oyelowo) whos family dies in what appears to be a murder, but he then gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. He’s not sure if she’s a ghost or if he’s going mad, but as it turns out, he’s not. So, he and […]
Les Misérables begins in June 1815, the day after the battle of Waterloo, and there are heaps of dead bodies around. The intro text tells us that after twenty years of war, France is defeated; Napoleon has been exiled and a new King is waiting to be crowned, meaning the old order will be restored, […]
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No Comments »Gringo is, according to the billing, an exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white-knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, joyriding into Mexico, where mild-mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to […]
Queen Of Katwe stars Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) as Harriet Mutesi, a young girl from Uganda who trains to become a world chess champion. Doesn’t sound like the most thrilling concept for a film I’ve come across. Directed by Mira Nair (2004’s Vanity Fair), from a script by William Wheeler, based on the […]
Nina places Zoe Saldana (Star Trek: Into Darkness) in the titular role, telling the story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone, showing her rise and fall and rise again, plus her relationship with manager Clifton Henderson (Selma‘s David Oyelowo). With her career lasting mostly through the 1960s, her best-known songs are […]
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Selma is the starting point of an important march which took place in 1965, as part of Martin Luther King’s campaign in looking to secure equal voting rights for black people, following his “I Have A Dream” speech in August 1963, where he called for an end to racism in the US, which led to […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: André Holland, Ava DuVernay, Carmen Ejogo, Charity Jordan, Colman Domingo, Common, Corey Reynolds, Cuba Gooding Jr, David Oyelowo, Dede Gardner, Dylan Baker, Elizabeth Diane Wells, Giovanni Ribisi, Henry G Sanders, Jeremy Kleiner, Jeremy Strong, Jim France, John Lavelle, John Legend, Keith Stanfield, Kent Faulcon, Lakeith Stanfield, Ledisi Anibade Young, Ledisi Young, Lorraine Toussaint, Martin Sheen, Niecy Nash, Nigél Thatch, Omar Dorsey, Omar J Dorsey, Oprah Winfrey, Paul Webb, Selma, Stan Houston, Stephan James, Stormy Merriwether, Tessa Thompson, Tom Wilkinson, Trai Byers, Wendell Pierce, tim roth No Comments »Captive is a fact-based thriller with Kate Mara as Ashley Smith, a single mother struggling with drug addiction, who is randomly taken hostage in her own apartment by Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo), a man on the run from the law for breaking out of jail and murdering the judge assigned to his case. Also starring […]
A Most Violent Year stars Inside Llewyn Davis‘ Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales, who is a good man, in principle, running a business to supply oil. He’s buying a new facility which will allow him to bring in fuel via the river, so he can buy from any supplier worldwide, and it’s also a place […]
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Posted in Competitions Tags: A Most Violent Year, David Oyelowo, J.C. Chandor, Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac No Comments »Matthew McConaughey recently starred as astronaut Cooper looking for life on the other side of godknowswhere in Christopher Nolan’s epic space movie Interstellar, and another epic space movie is coming out later this year – Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the second trailer for which was released recently. There’s a certain scene in […]
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