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Perfectly exploring issues of servitude, poverty, greed and power, this film is a must-see. It’ll come as no surprise to film fans that this scooped the ‘Best Picture’ award at the 2020 Oscars. Dan’s decision to have an affair with Alex goes horribly wrong when she tells him that she’s pregnant and won’t leave him or his family alone until she can win him back. Forcing Dan to take responsibility for his actions, Alex stalks his family and turns his life into a living nightmare, proving that every decision has a consequence. CIA ‘exfiltration’ specialist, Tony Mendez is forced to come up with a plan to get the Americans safely out of Iran before danger occurs. This film will have you on the edge of your seats for its duration, we promise.
My choice might be slightly biased, but then again the US National Film Registry ranked The Godfather as the second best American film ever made. Way before Alfie Solomons wished his first mazel tov to Birmingham’s underworld in Peaky Blinders, Tom Hardy and writer Steven Knight had already worked together on this rock-solid thriller with a difference. It all takes place over the course of a car ride from Birmingham to London, with only Hardy’s Ivan Locke ever on screen and other characters heard through the speakerphone. Denis Villeneuve creates a gritty and guilt-ridden world in Prisoners, the story of a father whose six-year-old daughter and friends go missing only for the police to release the primary suspect. Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano are a formidable trio in their portrayal of desperation and revenge.
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Based on the bestseller of the same name by Gillian Flynn, this film proves why you should never trust the ‘cool girl’ façade. However, little does Bloom realise that his love of the cut-throat nightcrawling world would lead him to becoming a victim of a crime, too. Film duo Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio come together in his dramatic thriller. It sees DiCaprio’s character, federal marshall Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck head to Shutter Island – the location of a mental hospital for the criminally insane. The reason why so many of us are terrified of sharks, this Steven Spielberg-directed film sees several people become victims to a murderous predator. However, a group of fisherman believe they can take on the great white and save their local community. The film sees the Kim family infiltrate the lives of the affluent Park family as their driver, tutor, art therapist and house maid.
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Hitch kept the experience of Blackmail a unique one by employing silent film techniques while still experimenting with sound. Not all of this comes off but the film’s many positive features far outweigh these foibles.
As is his wont, he plays a father out to avenge the death of a family member – this time his son – at the hands of a local drug-dealing syndicate. Laura Dern and William Forsythe provide the support for this popcorn-muncher that can quickly be described as ‘nice guy snowplough driver turns vigilante’. 2019 looks all set to be another brilliant year for us crime fiction fans. We can tell you with some assurance that it’ll be a fine twelve months for books and we’re pretty certain there’ll be more than enough in the TV stakes to satiate you all too. Well, put it this way – you’ve very little to worry about on that front either. It’s almost unthinkable that there won’t be a whole raft of other excellent projects hitting screens next year.
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Hitch not only shows his technical wizadry but also his insatiable appetite for suspense. If there’s one film that is instantly recognisable it is, of course, Hitch’s masterpiece of ill-fitting special effects The Birds. Hitchcock may well have been widely noted for his flecks of comedic genius, but on The Lady Vanishes, the director goes one better and gives free rein for laughter. Down to that fact, it remains one of the finest pictures he made in Britain. Alfred Hitchcock weaves his spellbinding magic into this Francis Beeding novel adaptation. Alongside powerful stars, there’s an engaging storyline that has you hooked until the very end.
We’ll be doing our best to keep up with them all and make sure you’re all perfectly well informed. Now scheduled for a spring release, this Rear Window-esque tale of a psychologist witnessing a terrible crime while spying on her neighbours should be a pretty straightforward affair. And with Julianne Moore and Gary Oldman filling out the cast, we reckon it’ll be well worth an evening at your local multiplex. The hero of the piece (played by Sons of Anarchy’s Hunnam) is disgraced ex-LAPD detective Charlie Waldo, a man who’s given up on metropolitan life and is living off grid in the woods. He heads back to work – and the city – when he gets a private job investigating the bizarre murder of a ‘difficult’ TV star’s wife. Come summer 2020, all eyes will be on Tenet (or ‘TENƎꓕ’ as it’s being stylised) – his latest. As ever, details of the exact plot have been a little thin on the ground throughout 2019, but we still know a fair amount.
Winning a ‘Best Director’ Oscar for lead actor Ben Affleck, Argo chronicles the true story of a rescue operation of a group of Americans during a hostage incident in Iran. Hired by a politician to rescue his daughter, who is believed to have been taken by a human trafficking group, Joe uses the only thing he knows – violence – to retrieve her. This film forces you to question everything you’ve ever thought about the bad and good guys. Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence play a couple – Mother and Man, respectively – in this bizarre thriller. The film has a stellar cast including Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Ray Winstone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon. Written and directed by Tom Ford, this film was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival. Directed by David Fincher, this film – based on the first book in a trilogy by Stieg Larsson – stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
Perhaps, too, my feelings for The Godfather stem from the original book by Mario Puzo. We studied together at a kitchen table writing group during that period, both of us struggling to make our bones as writers.
One of the greatest ever comedies and a fantastic supernatural blockbuster to boot. Dan Ackroyd, who wrote the script with Harold Ramis, was genuinely obsessed with the spirit world, while co-stars Ramis, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver played it down the middle. The joker in the ectoplasm is Murray, who navigates the action just about keeping a straight face. It is an irresistible counterpoint to all the End of the World hokum – the essential final ingredient in a near-perfect film. Even 20 years ago, the inherit sexism of the girl power crime solvers premise was obvious. But this is still a spirited and cheesy riff on the Seventies original – and Bill Murray is entirely in on the joke as the titular Charlie’s representative on earth, John Bosley.
If you’re scared of the dark, you might want to give this film a miss. Bird Box experiments with the idea of an invisible monster taking over the world and exterminating humanity. Well, it’s invisible unless you look straight at it, that is, in which case, then you end up dead.
Jon Finch plays the innocent man with earnestness and is exemplary in his role. Once the silly romance is swept aside Suspicion soon becomes a captivating thriller and is another must-see for any Hitch fan. The film is based pretty much on actual events and the miscarriage of justice made prominent in Queens County, New York in the early ’50s. The names aren’t changed and to add an extra level of creepiness, the film is shot using the exact locations in question. Despite a recent decline in popularity the film still works as one of Hitch’s easier flicks to digest. Anyone arriving to watch The Trouble With Harry who is expecting classic suspense or action will be disappointed. Instead, we have a warm and pleasant black comedy that fills the room with joy.
The central character’s misery soon turns to rage when she realises that there are forces – and people – to blame for the ‘accident’.
Suspicion and paranoia are quite big these days, as you might have noticed, so it’s perhaps a good time to revisit The Manchurian Candidate. It’s about the son of a prominent right-wing political family who becomes an unknowing assassin in a communist conspiracy, with Frank Sinatra playing a tortured platoon commander. Are you after a violent, Scorsese-inflected character portrait of a man mentally checking out of a society that appals him and which is anchored around a virtuoso Joaquin Phoenix performance? Watch Lynne Ramsay’s opus about a hitman who gets trafficked girls out of lives of abuse. Hallucinatory, bold and frequently as beautiful as it is brutal, You Were Never Really Here is a modern masterpiece. Probably the most straightforward Spike Lee joint of all Spike Lee’s joints, this heist thriller is still more tricksy and witty than most.
What we do know is that it has some cast… Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield and Christopher Plummer all feature in as-yet-unannounced roles. Production and release on Motherless Brooklyn were held up due to a fire that broke out on-set in early 2018, in which a New York City firefighter sadly died. This ‘origins’ effort stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/The Joker and shows us all how he went from gag merchant chat show stand-up comedian to The World’s Most Evil Man™. With War Dogs director Todd Phillips directing and the likes of Robert de Niro on board, this has a feel of The King of Comedy to it. Arguably 2018’s best film was Widows, a tale of a gangster’s other halves taking on their husband’s trade. Perhaps 2019 will follow suit with this similarly-plotted drama/thriller. The idea of a film starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish being anything other than a daft comedy might seem far-fetched, but The Kitchen isn’t playing it for laughs.
The film turned out to be the first commercial success for Coppola since The Outsiders. Coppola nails the cinematic portrayal of teenage angst in this moving story about gang rivalry and violence. Although the film made more than its budget of $40 million, it was still considered as a disappointment when compared to other successful John Grisham adaptations like The Firm . Coppola earned his degree at UCLA with this film as his thesis project, with a budget close to $1 crime films ranked by fans million. It was presented at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival as the only American entry and caught the eye of Warner Bros which facilitated Coppola’s successful studio career. Set in the 1930s and centred on a Harlem jazz club, Coppola’s 1984 crime drama takes a synchronous look at multiple intersecting lives. A re-cut of the classic was released in 2017 because Coppola was unsatisfied with the prior version he had been forced to make under pressure from the producers.
Another Hitchcock stage adaptation sees perhaps one of his most curious. A synopsis that would send most critics heads spinning, the crude craftmanship lets down the story a little. However, there are barrels of Hitchcockian references and a hint of the suspense yet to come. The first half of the film, an addition detailing events only described in the play, is pure Hitchcock, aside from that the film is a more hackneyed effort. Far removed from his later work it sees the filmmaker at least beginning to know what he doesn’t like. The silent comedy, starring Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker and Jean Bradin, was working from a screenplay based on an original story by writer and critic Walter C. Mycroft.
Hitch contributed to the script, which took over a year to write and was closely involved with every aspect of the film’s production including the set design, costume design, and soundtrack. The first introduction of a toilet in an American film, for example, caused confusion and controversy along with the suggestive nudity of Marion Crane in that oh-so-famous shower scene we all know and love. Often described as the filmmaker’s favourite film, Hitchcock employs so many techniques and nuances that it is hard to keep up—and you shouldn’t even try to. With this film, Hitchcock manipulates his audience like a true master. Each scene is gilded with realism but is forthright and pace-filled, unwavering and strong. Full-colour photography is perhaps more stunning while Tiomkin’s score make this one of Hitch’s finest. Despite using some tried and tested techniques, that doesn’t take anything away from the power of Notorious.
Again dipping his toe into the world of politics, Hitchcock tells the story of an American scientist who appears behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany during the Cold War. The film, written by a team of Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville and the brilliant J. B. Priestley, famously celebrates Maureen O’Hara in her first major screen role in what is a period piece set in 1819. The film, starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter, is remembered as one of Hitchcock’s best silent pictures and, upon release, it garnered positive results. If there was proof that Hitchcock was not here to mess around then Waltzes from Vienna is certainly it.