In the near future waves of anti-matter from Neptune wreak havoc on Earth. Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is enlisted to help since the source of the shockwaves is believed to be a spaceship captained by Roy’s father, Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) and long believed to be lost. But as Roy embarks on a perilous mission to Mars he … Read the rest
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The 15:17 To Paris (Clint Eastwood, US, 2018)
The bond of friendship between three Californian kids – Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler – helps them overcome the perils and pitfalls of school life. As young adults trying to figure out what to do with themselves Spencer feels driven to help others so he and Alex enlist in the military but both find it tougher than they … Read the rest
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, US, 2017)
In Los Angeles Detective K (Ryan Gosling) hunts down and kills an artificial human known as a replicant but his death leads to an astonishing discovery that threatens to upend the status between replicants and their human masters. Ordered by his boss Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright) to eradicate all traces of his discovery K’s investigations are shadowed by a replicant … Read the rest
The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood, US, 1977)
Boozy Las Vegas cop Ben Shockley (Eastwood), gets the job of delivering prostitute Augustina ‘Gus’ Mally (Sondra Locke) to her court appearance in Phoenix. According to Ben’s boss, chief of police Blakelock (a brief but memorably repulsive character played by William Prince), it’s ‘a nothing witness for a nothing trial.’ Unsurprisingly then, Mally turns out to have a story that … Read the rest
Sully (Clint Eastwood, US, 2016)
In the immediate aftermath of a miraculous landing by a crippled aircraft in New York’s Hudson river its captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) finds himself acclaimed as a hero for saving the lives of all onboard. But an official investigation questions his decision to make a water landing when all their computer simulations suggest a return to the airport … Read the rest
World War Z (Marc Forster, US, 2013)
A worldwide zombie outbreak sends UN investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) on the trail of the mysterious infection. As Gerry makes his way to a military outpost in South Korea, then to a country (Israel) which appears to have forseen the disaster and made preparations to protect itself, each destination is ultimately overrun by the dead. Escaping from Israel by … Read the rest
Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood, US, 2014)
The story of how young and gifted singer Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young), and close friends Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) and Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda), three close friends from New Jersey with dubious criminal connections – along with brilliant singer-songwriter Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen) – became the smash hit pop group The Four Seasons and the internal pressures caused by … Read the rest
American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, US, 2014)
Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a US Navy SEAL, finds himself torn between two families; his wife Taya (Sienna Miller) who finds herself raising their son and daughter alone and the battlefield comrades who rely on his shooting skills to protect them from a legendary enemy sniper known as Mustafa during four gruelling tours of duty in Iraq. But after an … Read the rest
Manhunter (Michael Mann, US, 1986)
A retired FBI profiler named Will Graham (William Peterson) has the ability to put himself into the mind of his quarry and at the prodding of a former colleague (Dennis Farina) reluctantly accepts an assignment to hunt down a serial killer nicknamed the Tooth Fairy (Tom Noonan) who targets entire families for slaughter. As Graham renews contact with a former … Read the rest
Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, US, 2010)
In Asia, French TV reporter Marie (a luminous Cecile deFrance) briefly dies during a horrific natural disaster and has a vision of what she suspects may be the afterlife. Back home she can’t get the experience out of her mind and her obsession threatens her high-flying career and friendships. In San Francisco, lonely, middle-aged factory worker George (Matt Damon) can … Read the rest
