Notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) is forced to return to London after his son is found dead, and detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) takes the chance to capture the man who shot him three years earlier. Continue reading
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Cinema Review – Zero Dark Thirty
In her follow up to The Hurt Locker, director Kathryn Bigelow examines the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the aftermath of 9/11, focusing on Maya (Jessica Chastain) and her dogged determination to see the job through. Continue reading
Cinema Review – John Carter
A former civil war soldier is transported to Mars where he finds himself embroiled in a fight for the planet’s future. Continue reading
Cinema Review – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
In this adaptation from John Le Carré’s late 70s Cold war novel of the same name, Control (John Hurt) believes that there is a mole within British Intelligence, so he sends agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) to Hungary to meet with a Russian agent. Things soon go wrong for both Prideaux and Control, and it is up to George Smiley (Gary Oldman) to step in and find the mole who is leaking secrets to the other side, before the Americans share their secrets with the UK. Continue reading
