Galveston – Review
Ben Foster and Elle Fanning star in Mealanie Laurent’s grim and harrowing crime thriller, Galveston. From a story by Nic Pizzolatto, the True Detective creator has adapted the screenplay from his own...
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Six Of The Best: An Uncanny Resemblance
Ben Foster takes the reins as Lance Armstrong in Stephen Frears’ biopic, The Program, delivering a captivating performance that is enhanced by the actor’s scarily similar physical appearance to the d...
Six Of The Best: Method Men
In preparation for his lead role in Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong biopic, The Program, Ben Foster went the extra mile by actually taking performance-enhancing drugs in order to gain a better unders...
New releases for October
Here are some of the films you must watch in October… and a few of the other releases. Suffragette Carey Mulligan plays Maud Watts, a working class washerwoman forced by her inability to accept the i...
Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is a dramatisation of the 2005 SEAL mission in Afghanistan to kill or capture Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Director Peter Berg has based his screenplay on the book of the titular ‘l...
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Fresh from acclaim at the Cannes film festival comes the trailer for the drama Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. From relatively new writer / director David Lowery comes a tale of a life, love and the...
The Messenger
Before the 2012 psycho cop drama Rampart (reviewed here) Oren Moverman debuted in the directors chair with the military drama, The Messenger. Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) has returned ...
Rampart – Review
Before viewing this film I had no idea what the title referred to. I had to do a bit of digging to find something about it. Rampart refers to a division of the LAPD. There was a scandal in the late ...