The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy

A stuntman has to try and locate the missing star of his ex-girlfriend’s film in The Fall Guy. Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) is one of the best stuntmen in the business, often working a double for action superstar Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). After being injured in a stunt gone wrong, Colt departs into a life…

Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

The story of the man who created the atomic bomb is told in Oppenheimer. As a young man, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) was responsible for helping bring the study of quantum physics to the United States. This results in Oppenheimer being recruited by General Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) to lead the Manhattan Project and…

The Machine

The Machine

Comedian Bert Kreischer‘s past encounter with the Russian mafia comes back to haunt him in The Machine. Bert Kreischer has made a career out of recounting when his younger self (Jimmy Tatro) became involved with the Russian mafia while on a college trip to Russia, which ended with him assisting in robbing a train. However,…

A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place

A family tries to take shelter from sound sensitive creatures in A Quiet Place. The world has been ravaged by creatures, who hunt by sound. Lee Abbott (John Krasinski) and his wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt) struggle to survive in silence with their children Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe), and Beau (Cade Woodward). However, a combination of…

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train

An alcoholic divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons case in The Girl on the Train. Rachel (Emily Blunt) rides the trains everyday to and from New York, enviously observing the seemingly perfect couple of Scott (Luke Evans) and Megan (Haley Bennett). The couple just happens to live next door to Rachel’s ex-husband Tom (Justin…

Sicario

Sicario

An FBI agent finds herself part of a morally ambiguous anti-drug task force in Sicario. Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) is an agent of the FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Team, who uncovers dozens of bodies in the walls of a house in Arizona. With this being the result of Mexican cartel activity, Kate volunteers to Department of…

Into the Woods

Into the Woods

Rob Marshall (Chicago) directs this big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.  A baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) live in a village and are desperate for a child.  The couple are confronted by a witch (Meryl Streep), who tells them that they can’t have kids because…

Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise stars in the sci-fi time loop action film Edge of Tomorrow. For five years, humanity have been engulfed in a war with an alien race, known as Mimics, which seemingly have the ability to predict battles before they happen.  Major William Cage (Cruise) is a spokesperson for the United Defense Forces, who finds…

Looper

Looper

Ever since the release of the high school-set noir Brick in 2005, which I consider to be one of my all-time favourite films, I have considered Rian Johnson to be a director to keep an eye on.  For his third, and most ambitious, feature Looper, Johnson reunites with Brick star Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a sci-fi…

The Adjustment Bureau

The Adjustment Bureau

The Adjustment Bureau is the latest of many films based on a story by science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The film is about a young politician, who accidently finds out that all of humanity’s path through life are controlled by a group of fedora-wearing agents that will go to any extreme to make sure that…