Thursday 23 February 2012

Films released in the UK (24/02/12)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Directed by: John Madden
Starring: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Drama based on a novel by Deborah Moggach, starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Tom Wilkinson and Celia Imrie as a group of pensioners who move to Rajasthan to retire in a supposedly newly restored hotel.



Black Gold
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Mark Strong, Antonio Banderas
Genre(s): Drama
Drama based on a novel by Hans Ruesch, starring Tahar Rahim as an Arab prince torn between conflicting loyalties during the oil boom in the Arab states in the 1930s.

Blood Car
Directed by: Alex Orr
Starring: Mike Brune, Anna Chkumsky, Katie Rowlett
Genre(s): Comedy, Horror
Futuristic comedy horror set in a dystopia in which fuel prices have driven truckers to suicide and the population into a panic. Enter vegan kindergarten teacher Mike, who invents a car that runs on a different kind of fuel: blood…

Deviation
Directed by: JK Amalou
Starring: Danny Dyer, Anna Walton, James Doherty
Genre(s): Thriller
‘It could happen to you,’ warns the tagline of this London-set thriller – ‘it’ being a crazed Danny Dyer carjacking and kidnapping you and taking you on a ride of terror…

One For the Money
Directed by: Julie Anne Robinson
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata
Genre(s): Comedy, Action, Crime
Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) lands a job at her cousin's 
bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.

Rampart
Directed by: Oren Moverman
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Sigourney Weaver
Genre(s): Crime, Drama
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.

Red Dog
Directed by: Kriv Stenders
Starring: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Keisha Castle-Hughes
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Family 
1970s set Australian drama inspired by a true story and based on the book by Louis de Bernieres, about a legendary red dog (named Red Dog) who was adopted as a communal pet by the mining community of Dampier in northwest Australia. Starring Josh Lucas and Rachael Taylor.

Safe House
Directed by: Daniel Espinosa
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Patrick
Genre(s): Action, Crime, 
Mystery Thriller starring Ryan Reynolds as a low-level agent assigned to protect a rogue agent (Denzel Washington) when the CIA's Cape Town safe house is attacked.

Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya
Directed by: Mandeep Kumar
Starring: Tinnu Anand, Genelia D'Souza, Ritesh Deshmukh
Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
A young man kidnaps a girl and then falls in love with her in this typically colourful Bollywood rom-com.