Review 104min Genre:    Crime, Drama, Comedy, Action Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Cast:      Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro…and more Writers:  Glenn Ficarra & John Requa A slick veteran con-man recruits a beautiful and talented young apprentice on his latest grandiose scam, his life soon becomes complicated when heart gets in the way of his […]

Review 133min Genre:    Action, Mystery, Drama, Crime Director: Michael Mann Cast:      Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Leehom Wang…and more Writer:   Morgan Davis Foehl Following a series of devastating international cyber-attacks, US and Chinese authorities are forced together to track down the perpetrators by turning to a convicted and imprisoned American hacker who originally designed the code […]

Review 127min Genre:     Sci-fi, Action, Adventure, Fantasy Directors: Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski Cast:       Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne…and more Writers :  Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski A young immigrant domestic cleaner’s life on Earth is shattered when she is discovered as the heir apparent to a dynasty of intergalactic landowners and planet harvesters, […]

114min Genre:     Action, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller Director:  Stephen Daldry Cast:       Rickson Tevez, Rooney Mara, Wagner Moura…and more Writers:   Richard Curtis, Felipe Braga & Andy Mulligan Set in the streets and slums of modern day Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), three poor teenagers discover something in the city dump which places them in the middle of […]

102min Genre:      Animation, Action, Adventure, Comic-book Directors:  Don Hall, Chris Williams Cast:        Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, James Cromwell…and more Writers:    Jordan Roberts, Daniel Gerson…and more A teenage super-genius teams up with a fluffy medical robot and a group of uber-nerds to form a superhero team tasked with stopping a mysterious and powerful super-villain from […]

129min Genre:    Action, Adventure Director: Matthew Vaughn Cast:      Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson…and more Writers:  Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman…and more A talented but troubled inner-city kid is recruited by a high-level independent British Spy organization to stop a megalomaniacal tech-industry billionaire from bringing havoc to an unsuspecting world. Writer/director Matthew Vaughn brings his […]

106min Genre:    Comedy, Action Director:  David Koepp Cast:       Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor…and more Writers :  Eric Aronson, Kyril Bonfiglioli Johnny Depp stars alongside an all-star cast as eccentric English Aristocrat and art dealer Charlie Mortdecai, recruited by the British government to recover a priceless painting stolen by criminals to fund international terrorism in […]

132min Genre:      Fact-based, Action, Drama, War Director:   Clint Eastwood Cast:        Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Jake McDorman…and more Writers:    Jason Hall, Chris Kyle, James Defelice… more Clint Eastwood directs and Bradley Cooper stars in a dramatization of the autobiography of US Navy Seal Chief Chris Kyle who is considered the US Army’s most lethal marksman ever […]

112min Genre:     Comedy, Action Directors: Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen Cast:       James Franco, Seth Rogen, Randall Park …and more Writers:   Dan Sterling , Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen James Franco and Seth Rogen star as presenter and producer of a typically trashy celebrity tabloid show who are invited to North Korea for an interview […]

150min Genre:    Drama, Action, Adventure Director: Ridley Scott Cast:      Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Paul …and more Writers:  Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Steven Zaillian … and more Legendary director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien) brings to the big screen his version of the Biblical story of Moses’ odyssey from Egyptian nobleman to outcast to the liberator […]

2014 has been a great year for film, from varied action blockbusters to comic-book titans to quirky comedies, in particular it’s truly been the “year of the thriller” with diverse contributions to the genre from ’71 and Fury to Gone Girl and Nightcrawler. FilmPhonic chronicles the people, events and films that have shaped the movie […]

144min Genre:    Action, Fantasy, Adventure Director: Peter Jackson Cast:      Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen …and more Writers:  Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson… and more Having re-claimed “The Lonely Mountain” and left Bard and the people of Lake-town to deal with the dragon Smaug, the company of Thorin must now defend their homeland from […]

Following a great and varied year of film in 2014, we break down 12 of the must-see films released in the UK and worldwide in the first half of 2015.   January   Foxcatcher Image Source: Annapurna Pictures Genre: Drama, Fact-Based UK Release: 9th of January 2015 Having been the hit of film festivals and […]

115min Genre:    Action, Drama, Thriller Director: Kevin Macdonald Cast:      Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn …and more Writers:  Dennis Kelly Jude Law stars as a down-on-his-luck Scottish submarine captain forced to take a job searching the bottom of the Black Sea to find a Nazi U-Boat filled with gold, tensions rise between his multinational crew […]

Week 4 November 2014 This week we give you our 10 of the most original and entertaining mano a mano movie moments, they’re not all the most skillful fights but the ones that left the biggest impact. Let us know what you think and please subscribe for more weekly videos. Welcome to the FilmPhonic “10 […]

117min Genre:    Thriller, Drama, Crime Director: Dan Gilroy Cast:      Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed …and more Writers:  Dan Gilroy A desperate and obsessive man stumbles upon the world of on-the-scene crime reporting on the streets of L.A. and becomes obsessed with making it in the world of local news, fuelled by sensationalist local news […]

134min Genre:     Action, War, Drama Director:  David Ayer Cast:       Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman …and more Writers:   David Ayer Brad Pitt stars as a battle-hardened US Army Sergeant leading his Tank crew in the dying days of World War II through the desperate but dangerous final resistance of Nazi Germany. Written and Directed by […]

99min Genre:    Drama, Thriller, War Director: Yann Demange Cast:      Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson …and more Writers:  Gregory Burke A young private in the British army is deployed to 1970s Northern Ireland at the height of “The Troubles” to help control the volatile streets of West Belfast, only to find himself cut-off from his […]

104 min Genre:     Comedy, Action Director:  Luke Greenfield Cast:       Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., Andy Garcia…and more Writers:   Luke Greenfield , Nicholas Thomas A couple of L.A. friends stuck in a rut decide to impersonate Police officers and take it too far with disastrous and hilarious consequences. Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. […]

89 min Genre:    Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller Director: Luc Besson Cast:      Scarlett Johansson, Min-sik Choi, Morgan Freeman…and more Writers:  Luc Besson Scarlett Johansson stars as a young American in Taiwan caught up in an international drug-deal gone wrong the results of which see her unlock the full capacity of the human brain with almost supernatural consequences, bad […]

121min Genre:    Comic-Book, Action, Adventure, Comedy Director: James Gunn Cast:      Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper…and more Writers:  James Gunn , Nicole Perlman , Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning Adventurer, thief and Galactic rogue Peter Quill is hunted across the corners of space after discovering a powerful and dangerous artifact and is forced to join […]

130min Genre:    Sci-Fi, Action, Drama Director: Matt Reeves Cast:      Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Andy Serkis…and more Writers:  Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver & Pierre Boulle We find our planet many years after the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes where humanity has been decimated by the Simian-Flu leaving pockets of survivors […]

112min Genre:    Comedy, Action Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Cast:      Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube…and more Writers:  Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel , Rodney Rothman, Jonah Hill    Officers Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) return to our screens in the buddy-cop comedy blockbuster of this summer with much of the same formula from the successful […]

131min Genre:     Comic-Book, Action, Adventure, Sci-fi Director:  Bryan Singer Cast:       Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender,  James McAvoy …and more Writers:   Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn Director Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men helm to unite the casts from the original films and the prequel X-Men: First Class in an epic time-travel […]

123min Genre:    Action, Adventure, Disaster, Sci-fi Director: Gareth Edwards Cast:      Aaron Taylor-Johnson Bryan Cranston Ken Watanabe…more Writers:  Max Borenstein, Dave Callaham Scientists awaken something ancient and huge with disastrous consequences for humanity, director Gareth Edwards brings us his interpretation of the sci-fi monster movie classic Godzilla starring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, […]