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Gangster Squad | 2013 | Final | UK Quad

Gangster Squad is a 2013 American action crime thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Will Beall. It stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone and Sean Penn. It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Sergeant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, whose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested....

21Sep2016

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Demolition Man | 1993 | Final | UK Quad

Demolition Man was released in 1993 and is a science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut. It was produced by Joel Silver, Michael Levy and Howard Kazanjian with the screenplay written by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau and Peter M. Lenkov. Some aspects of the film allude to Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. Demolition Man stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock and Nigel Hawthorne. The storyline is set 2032 where mainstream society has changed and all crime has seemingly been eliminated. Simon Phoenix, an evil crime lord and cryogenically frozen in 1996, is revived for a parole hearing well into the 21st century. At the parole hearing he escapes after uttering a secret password, without knowing exactly how he had gain...

The Untouchables | 1987 | Final | UK One Sheet

19Sep2016

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The Untouchables | 1987 | Final | UK One Sheet

The Untouchables is a 1987 gangster film directed by Brian De Palma. It was produced by Art Linson with David Mamet writing the screenplay based on the autobiographical memoirs in the book of the same name by Eliot Ness (co-written with Oscar Fraley) and originally published in 1957. The film stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. The storyline follows Eliot Ness, a government agent played by Kevin Costner who is chasing notorious gang leader Al Capone played by Robert De Niro. Sean Connery plays Irish-American officer Jimmy Malone who is based on the real life Irish-American agent and "Untouchables" member Marty Lahart. The film reflects the autobiographical account of Eliot Ness and the efforts of his Untouchables team to bring Capone ...

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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First Blood | 1982 | Final | UK Quad

First Blood (also known as Rambo: First Blood) is a 1982 action adventure film directed by Ted Kotcheff. It was produced by Buzz Feitshans with the screenplay being written by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, Sylvester Stallone based on the novel First Blood by David Morrell and is the first instalment of the Rambo franchise. First Blood stars Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael Talbott, Chris Mulkey, John McLiam, Alf Humphreys and David Caruso. The storyline follows John Rambo, a much troubled and often misunderstood Vietnam war veteran. Rambo is travelling by foot to visit an old comrade, who unbeknown to him had passed away the previous year. As he continues his travels he arrives in the small town of Hope, Washington. After being...

19Sep2016

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Donnie Brasco | 1997 | UK Quad

Donnie Brasco is a 1997 crime drama directed by Mike Newell and produced by Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Louis DiGiaimo, Gail Mutrux. The screenplay was written by Paul Attanasio and is based on the 1988 nonfiction book called Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone. It stars Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo and Anne Heche. The storyline is loosely based on the true story of Joseph D. Pistone (played by Johnny Depp), an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York City during the 1970s, using the alias Donnie Brasco. Donnie maneuvers his way into the confidence of an aging Mafia hitman, Lefty Ruggiero (played by Al Pacino), who vouches for him. As Donnie moves deeper into the Mafia criminal underwo...

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...

19Sep2016

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Carrie | 1976 | UK Quad

Carrie is a 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma. It was produced by Paul Monash and the screenplay was written by Lawrence D. Cohen. The film is based on Stephen King’s 1974 novel, Carrie. It stars Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Piper Laurie in the lead roles. Carrie was the first novel by Stephen King to be adapted into a feature film. At the time when the film was made Stephen King was 26 years old and he was paid just $2,500 for the film rights however he said “I was fortunate to have that happen to my first book”. It became one of many film or television adaptions of his books and since Carrie more than 100 have been made. In the final scene which Sue reaches towards Carrie’s grave, was filmed backwards in order to give it a dreamlike feel. The scene was inspired by the final s...

19Sep2016

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Commando | 1985 | UK Quad

Commando is a 1985 action film directed by Mark L. Lester and produced by Joel Silver. The screenplay was written Steven E. de Souza based on the story by himself, Joseph Loeb III and Matthew Weisman. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Vernon Wells, Bill Duke and Dan Hedaya. The storyline follows retired United States Army Special Forces Colonel John Matrix, who lives in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. Informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that all the other members of his former Special Forces unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries, he is forced out of retirement when he and his daughter are kidnapped by a band of ruthless mercenaries intent on taking revenge. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his u...

19Sep2016

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Serpico | 1973 | UK Quad

Serpico is a 1973 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman. The screenplay was written by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler and is based on an adaption of Peter Maas's biography of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption within the police force. The film stars Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe, Tony Roberts, John Medici and Allan Rich. The storyline follows Frank Serpico, a young and inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop, busting all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 1960s and early 1970s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, s...

The Force Awakens | 2015 | IMAX Set | UK Poster

19Sep2016

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The Force Awakens | 2015 | IMAX Set | UK Poster

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens) is a 2015 film directed by J. J. Abrams who co-produced the film with Kathleen Kennedy and Bryan Burk. The screenplay was co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams and Michael Arndt based on the characters created by George Lucas. The Force Awakens sees the return of some original actors from the original Star Wars films; Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew alongside Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson and Max von Sydow. The storyline is set three decades after Return of the Jedi and follows Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron's search for Luke Skywalker. They are thrown into the middle of a battle between the...

Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | 3D Plastic | UK Poster

17Sep2016

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Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | 3D Plastic | UK Poster

Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and produced by Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad. The screenplay was written by Alvin Sargent based on a story Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Michael Chabon. The film is based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Spider-Man 2 stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris and Donna Murphy The storyline is set two years after the events of the first Spider-Man film, and finds Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider-Man, which affects his civilian life dramatically. Meanwhile, Dr. Otto Octavius becomes a diabolical villain after a failed experiment kills his wife and leaves him neurologically fused to mechanical tentac...

Beauty and the Beast | 2017 | Advance | UK Quad

17Sep2016

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Beauty and the Beast | 2017 | Advance | UK Quad

Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon and produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. The screenplay was written by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos is a live-action adaptation of Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name by Linda Woolverton, which in itself is an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 1756 version of the fairy tale. Beauty and the Beast was made predominantly with British actors and stars Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen and Emma Thompson. The storyline centres on a young Prince who has been imprisoned in the form of a monstrous beast by a mysterious enchantress. The only condition is if he can le...

The Magnificent Seven | 2016 | Advance | UK Quad

17Sep2016

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The Magnificent Seven | 2016 | Advance | UK Quad

The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a re-imagination of the 1960 western film of the same name, which in turn was a remake of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgaard. It is the final film of composer James Horner, who died the previous year after composing a part of the score; his friend Simon Franglen completed the music. Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in The Magnificent Seven. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople employ protection ...

17Sep2016

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Blair Witch | 2016 | Advance | UK Quad

The Blair Witch Project was released in 1999 and is a found footage type horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Blair Witch was released in 2016 and is a found footage type psychological horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. It is a direct sequel to The Blair Witch Project and stars James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry. The storyline follows a group of college students and their local guides who venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Heather Donahue, the sister of one of the characters. Initially, the film's connection to the Blair Witch franchise was kept secret, with the film having been shot under the fake title...

17Sep2016

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Trading Places | 1983 | UK Quad

Trading Places is a 1983 film directed by John Landis and produced by Aaron Russo. The screenplay was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis. The storyline focuses on the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet to test how each man will perform when their life circumstances are swapped. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel The Prince and the Pauper and also bears a resemblance to another of Mark Twain's stories, The Million Pound Bank Note. When Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod were developing the idea for...