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22Sep2016

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Sicario | 2015 | Final | UK Quad

Sicario is a 2015 American crime-thriller drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. Written by Taylor Sheridan, the film is about a principled FBI agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel. Sicario was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Distributed by Lionsgate, the film began a limited release in the United States on September 18, 2015, prior to a nationwide release on October 2, 2015. The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Editing and three BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Film Music. It was criticised ...

Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs | 1991 | Final | UK Quad

21Sep2016

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Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs | 1991 | Final | UK Quad

The People Under the Stairs is a 1991 horror comedy film that was written and directed by Wes Craven. It was produced by Stuart M. Besser and Marianne Maddalena. The film stars Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, and A. J. Langer. The storyline focuses on a young boy called Poindexter Williams known by the nickname Fool who comes from the ghetto. On his 13th birthday, he and two adult robbers attempt a burglary of the home of his family's evil landlords trying to steal their collection of rare coins. He and his two accompliances become trapped inside their large suburban house and soon discover the secret of the "children" that the insane brother and sister have been "rearing" under the stairs. According to writer-director Wes Craven, the story behind The People Under the St...

The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Final | UK One Sheet

19Sep2016

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The Usual Suspects | 1995 | Final | UK One Sheet

The Usual Suspects is a 1995 mystery crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, and Kevin Spacey. The film follows the interrogation of Roger "Verbal" Kint, a small-time con man who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. He tells an interrogator a convoluted story about events that led him and his partners in crime to the boat, and about a mysterious mob boss known as Keyser Söze who commissioned their work. Using flashback and narration, Kint's story becomes increasingly complex. The film, shot on a $6 million budget, began as a title taken from a column in Spy magazine called ...

19Sep2016

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The Omen | 1976 | UK Quad

The Omen is a 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer. The film stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern. The first instalment in The Omen series, the film concerns a young child adopted at birth by American Ambassador Robert Thorn unbeknownst to his wife, after their own son is stillborn. They are surrounded by mysterious and ominous deaths, unaware that the child is the Antichrist. Released theatrically by 20th Century Fox in June 1976, The Omen received acclaim from critics and was a commercial success, grossing over $60 million at the box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 1976. The film earned two Academy Award nominatio...

The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Advance | UK One Sheet

25Aug2016

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The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Advance | UK One Sheet

The Hateful Eight (also known as The H8ful Eight and The Hateful 8) is a 2015 western mystery film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It was produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Stacey Sher and Shannon McIntosh. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern The storyline is set some time after the US Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John "The Hangman" Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (an infamous bounty hunter) and Chris Mannix (a man who claims to be Red Rock's new sheriff). Lost in a blizzard, the bunch ...

19Aug2016

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48 Hrs | 1982 | Final | US One Sheet

48 Hrs. is a 1982 action comedy film directed by Walter Hill and produced by Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver, his first film as a producer. The screenplay was written by Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill, Larry Gross and Steven E. de Souza. 48 Hrs stars Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy in his film debut and Annette O'Toole. The storlyine follows an oddball but tough San Francisco PD officer, Inspector Jack Cates who is the only survivor of a bloody shoot-out in a cheap hotel. With the back to the wall and in order to hunt down the murderer, the armed-and-dangerous escaped convict, Albert Ganz he releases Reggie Hammond, the fugitive's former partner from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help and the killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have nothing in ...

15Aug2016

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Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Advance | UK Quad

Hot Fuzz is a 2007 satirical action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and produced by Nira Park, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The screenplay written by Wright and Simon Pegg with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent and Timothy Dalton starring. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost along with the film's producer Nira Park had previously worked together on the television series Spaced and the film Shaun of the Dead released in 2004. The storyline follows top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel who is good actually too good and in order to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, a fictional small English village. Here he is partnered with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on his action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet and mundane f...