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The Force Awakens | 2015 | Teaser | UK Quad

25Aug2017

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The Force Awakens | 2015 | Teaser | UK Quad

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...

Octopussy | 1983 | Advance | UK One Sheet

24Aug2017

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Octopussy | 1983 | Advance | UK One Sheet

Octopussy was released in 1983 and is the 13th film in the James Bond series. It was directed by John Glen and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. The screenplay was co-written by George MacDonald Fraser, Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum based on the character created by Ian Fleming. Octopussy stars Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn and Kabir Bedi. Octopussy was released in the same year as the non-Eon Productions film Never Say Never Again starring Sean Connery as 007, James Bond. The film's title, Octopussy comes from the Ian Fleming’s 1966 collection of short stories called Octopussy and The Living Daylights, although the film's plot is original. However, the scene at Sotheby's is drawn from the short story The Property of a Lady which was included in 1967 and...

Attack of the Clones | 2002 | Final | UK Quad

23Aug2017

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Attack of the Clones | 2002 | Final | UK Quad

Attack of the Clones (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones) is a 2002 film directed by George Lucas. It was produced by Rick McCallum with Jonathan Hales co-writing the screenplay with George Lucas based on his story. Attack of the Clones stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Frank Oz. The second instalment in the prequel Star Wars trilogy is set ten years after The Phantom Menace with the galaxy on the brink of civil war. A former Jedi called Count Dooku, leads thousands of planetary systems and threatens to leave the Galactic Republic. After the attempted assassination of Senator Padmé Amidala, a young Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker becomes her protector, while his mentor ...

Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Style A | UK Quad

22Aug2017

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Return of the Jedi | 1983 | Style A | UK Quad

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) is a 1983 film directed by Richard Marquand. It was produced by Howard Kazanjian with Lawrence Kasdan co-writing the screenplay with George Lucas based on his own story. Return of the Jedi sees the return of many of the same characters from the previous films; Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew and Frank Oz. The third instalment in the original Star Wars trilogy is set a year after the Empire Strikes Back as sees the Empire, lead by the ruthless evil Emperor building a second Death Star to crush the Rebel Alliance. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the rebels go to Endor to plan the destruction of ...

21Aug2017

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The Cassandra Crossing | 1976 | UK Quad

The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 film directed by George Pan Cosmatos. It was co-produced by Carlo Ponti, G. Pettini and although uncredited Sir Lew Grade. The screenplay is based on the 1976 novel, The Cassandra Crossing written by Robert Katz, who co-wrote the screenplay with directed George Pan Cosmatos and Tom Mankiewicz. The film featured an all-star lineup of Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson, Lee Strasberg and Ava Gardner. The storyline follows a group of passengers on a Swiss Trans-European train that has been exposed to a deadly disease carried onboard by Swedish terrorist. Having been quarantined to prevent the spread of the disease and heading towards a dangerously unsound steel arch bridge, known as The Cassandra Crossing will crossing ...

18Aug2017

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JFK | 1991 | Final | UK Quad

JFK is a 1991 film directed by Oliver Stone who co-produced the film with A. Kitman Ho. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Zachary Sklar who adapted the film based on the books On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs. Oliver Stone described this accounts in the books as a "counter-myth" to the Warren Commission's "fictional myth”. JFK stars Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Oldman, Michael Rooker, Jay O. Sanders and Sissy Spacek. The storyline for JFK examines the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and alleged cover-up through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for his alleged ...

17Aug2017

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IT | 2017 | Teaser | UK Quad

IT (also known as It: Part 1 – The Losers' Club) is a 2017 film directed by Andrés Muschietti. It is co-produced by Dan Lin, Roy Lee, David Katzenberg, Barbara Muschietti and Seth Grahame-Smith. The screenplay was co-written by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman based on Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. IT stars Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise The Dancing Clown with Jaeden Lieberher starring as Bill Denbrough. Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Nicholas Hamilton, and Jackson Robert Scott. The storyline follows the murder of seven-year-old Georgie Denbrough in Derry, Maine, during the fall of 1988; one year later, his older brother and his group of friends discover that the culprit is a shape-shifting entity ...

16Aug2017

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Skyfall | 2012 | Final | UK Quad

Skyfall was released in 2012 and is the 23rd film in the James Bond series. It was directed by Sam Mendes and co-produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The screenplay was co-written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan. Skyfall stars Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Bérénice Lim Marlohe, Albert Finney and Judi Dench. The theme song for Skyfall, was co-written and performed by British singer Adele. The storyline follows James Bond’s latest assignment which goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters are attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 ...

Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Style B | UK Quad

14Aug2017

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Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Style B | UK Quad

A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 film directed by Richard Attenborough. It was co-produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard P. Levine. The screenplay was written by William Goldman based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Cornelius Ryan. A Bridge Too Far features an all-star cast of Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. The storyline tells the story a failed mission during World War II called Operation Market Garden. It was intended that the Allies would break through the German lines and seize several bridges in occupied country, Netherlands including one located in Arnhem. The objective of the mission was to outflank the German force...

7Aug2017

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American Beauty | 1999 | UK Quad

American Beauty is a 1999 film directed by Sam Mendes. It was co-produced by Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks with Alan Ball writing the screenplay. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley and Chris Cooper. The storyline follows Lester Burnham, a 42-year-old advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela. Alan Ball had intended for the story for American Beauty to be a stage play and began writing it in the early 1990s. He was inspired by the media circus surrounding the Amy Fisher trial in 1992. However, he realised the play wouldn’t work on a stage and shelved it but after several years whilst working as a television screenwriter, Alan Ball...

4Aug2017

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Convoy | 1978 | Final | UK One Sheet

Convoy is a 1978 film directed by Sam Peckinpah. It produced by Robert M. Sherman with Bill Norton known as B. W. L. Norton writing the screenplay. Convoy stars Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair, Franklyn Ajaye, Brian Davies, Seymour Cassel, Cassie Yates and Walter Kelley. The storyline follows three truckers, Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald, Bobby ‘Pig Pen’ and Spider Mike as they set off across the country. Harassed by a local Sheriff, Lyle 'Cottonmouth' Wallace, who uses his powers to extort money and has a particular dislike for truckers. Rubber Duck has a long-standing feud with the Sheriff which boils over when the truckers refuse to give into his extortion attempts. This results in a cross-state, even interstate chase, and grows in magnitud...

14Jul2017

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Gangster No 1 | 2000 | Final | UK Quad

Gangster No 1 (pronounced Gangster Number One) is a 2000 film directed by Paul McGuigan. It was co-produced by Norma Heyman and Jonathan Cavendish. The screenplay was co-written Johnny Ferguson, Louis Mellis and David Scinto. The story is based on play of Gangster No 1, by Louis Mellis - who also wrote Sexy Beast - and David Scinto. Gangster No. 1 stars Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, David Thewlis and Saffron Burrows. The storyline follows a middle-aged crime boss smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood in Swinging 60's London, he aped his mod boss Freddie Mays, and seemed to do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie's supremacy, and especially his tall bird. The baby sh...

19Jun2017

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The Love Witch | 2016 | UK Quad

The Love Witch is a 2016 film written and directed by Anna Biller. It stars Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford, Robert Seeley and Jennifer Ingrum. The storyline is based on Elaine, a beautiful young witch who start a new life after the death of her husband Jerry. She uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her with disastrous results. The Love Witch uses the figure of the witch as a metaphor for women in general, as both an embodiment of men's fears of women, and of women's own innate powers of intuition and as mothers and sorceresses. The character of Elaine is an examination of the femme fatale archetype. The film embraces the camp of 1960s horror, examining issues of love, desire, and narcissism through a feminist persp...

14Jun2017

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The Krays | 1990 | UK Lobby Card

The Krays is a 1990 film directed by Peter Medak. It was produced by Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis with Philip Ridley writing the screenplay. The Krays stars Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Susan Fleetwood, Kate Hardie, Alfred Lynch and Steven Berkoff. The storyline follows the lives of the Krays twins from childhood to adult life. It focuses on the relationship between the twins and their doting mother, Violet. Ronald is the more dominant one and influences his brother Reginald to perform several acts of violence. They rise to lead a powerful and notorious organised criminal gang in 1960s London whilst becoming celebrities in London's stylish East End club scene. Principle photography was filmed in and around London, United Kingdom. Upon its release, The Krays...

12Jun2017

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Scream | 1996 | UK Quad

Scream is a 1996 film directed by Wes Craven. It was produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods with Kevin Williamson writing the screenplay. The film stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore. The storyline follows Sidney Prescott who is a high school student in a fictional town called Woodsboro, California. She becomes the target of a mysterious killer known as Ghostface. Scream combined black comedy and mystery with the violence of the slasher genre to mock and ridicule the traditional clichés of the horror film genre made popular in films such as Halloween and Friday the 13th. Part of the uniqueness of Scream was for featuring characters who are aware of real world horror films and openly discussed the clichés th...

9Jun2017

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Police Academy | 1984 | UK Quad

Police Academy is a 1984 film directed by Hugh Wilson. It was produced by Paul Maslansky with the screenplay being written by Hugh Wilson based on the original story by Neal Israel and Pat Proft. The film stars Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, G.W. Bailey, Bubba Smith, Donovan Scott, George Gaynes, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Michael Winslow and Bruce Mahler. The storyline for Police Academy follows a decision made by the Mayoress to remove set personal criteria from the requirements to joins the police force. No longer is sex, weight, height and orientation a factor which allows for an insurgence of people applying. Following a select group of Police Academy misfits in their quest to become policemen and women. The main focus is on a petty criminal called Carey Mahoney who was buste...