Jake Leonard

Mike Leigh’s biopic of artist J. M. W. Turner (here played by Timothy Spall) covers the latter part of Turner’s life, by which time he had already established himself as an artist and unorthodox character. The film charts the painter’s slow decline in health and popularity, as well as...

Ex-alcoholic Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is a private detective hired by drug dealer Kenny Kristo (Dan Stevens) to track down his wife’s killers. Along the way, Scudder befriends homeless teenager TJ (Brian ‘Astro’ Bradley) and uncovers a much darker tale of serial-killing sadomasochists, underground adult movies, and the Twelve...

The brilliant Stellan Skarsgård stars as a snow plough driver-cum-vigilante who gets more than he bargained for in this pitch-black Norwegian comedy from writer-director Hans Petter Moland. After winning citizen of the year, Nils Dickman (Skarsgård) discovers that his son has been killed by local drug dealers in a...

Beneath the streets of Cheesebridge, there lives a disgusting band of evil trolls that come out at night to steal and eat the children of the town – or so Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) would have the populace believe. The truth is that trolls do live in the sewers...

Anton Corbijn’s film version of John le Carré’s novel follows Günter Wachtmann (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he attempts to track a Chechen Muslim in the hope that he will lead him to supporters of Al-Qaeda. However, Wachtmann must deal with factions within German Intelligence and interference from...

Much like The Full Monty or Billy Elliot, the tone and depth of Pride is simplistic in its historical analysis and triumphalist in its conclusions, but it is a well-crafted, beautifully acted, infectiously heartwarming tale, and it works a treat. It’s 1984 and the Miner’s Strike is in full...

Two Days, One Night concerns the efforts of a female factory worker, recovering from a bout of depression, as she tries to persuade her colleagues to vote to keep her job. There is, however, one major obstacle – her boss has offered everyone else a 1000€ bonus in the...