The Review at the End of the Universe
After several unsuccessful suicide attempts a young man enlists an ageing assassin to end his life for a nominal fee in Tom Edmunds’ Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back). Suicide is such a serious and sensitive subject matter that applying comedy to it is almost unthinkable. The tone has to be spot on…
A young woman forges an unlikely friendship with her cantankerous old neighbour when faced with the prospect of an eviction in Simon Aboud’s This Beautiful Fantastic. The story focuses on Bella (Jessica Brown Findlay), a strange young woman who was protected by ducks when she was a baby until she was found by an old man…
Mick Jackson’s Denial tells the true life story of the acclaimed writer/historian Deborah E. Lipstadt and the trial that questioned whether the Holocaust really happened after a denier sues her for Libel. In the 21st century the idea that anyone would deny the Holocaust really happened might seem completely ridiculous but shockingly this actually happened…
Oliver Stone’s Snowden tells the story of infamous NSA employee Edward Snowden and what led him to expose the surveillance techniques employed by the United States Government to the public. This is a story that is still very much going on so making a biopic about it at this stage seems somewhat baffling since the…
Ross Katz’ The Choice adapts the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name and chronicles the romance between Travis (Benjamin Walker) and Gabby (Teresa Palmer) as they experience the ups and downs of life together. I’ll preface this by saying that films like this typically aren’t the sort of thing I would go far so…
Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the story of Martin Luther King’s (David Oyelowo) campaign to secure equal voting rights for black people by organising a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. To say that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential historical figure would be a vast understatement so making a film that…
