Certain images and ideas will stick with you, which partly explains why the film won both the Grand Jury Prize and the audience award at the 2013 Sundance Festival. Largely keeping to the facts of the matter, Fruitvale Station is imbued with a sense of omnipresent doom, while Jordan makes for a charismatic central figure. Jordan and his director – soon to reunite for Rocky spin-off Creed – don’t shy away from the rougher edges of Oscar Grant, who died at the titular station in an encounter with law enforcement officers. capturing the mood of Ferguson-era AmericaĪfter learning his craft in short films, Ryan Coogler made an assured debut with this tragic story inspired by real life. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Ahna O’Reilly, Ariana Nealīest for. Stream 20 Feet From Stardom now with Amazon Video 42. The varying reasons they didn’t quite translate their rare vocal talents into solo success (and not all craved it) offer a tantalising trip into the very nature of stardom.Ĭheck out Empire's review of 20 Feet From Stardom here Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon – stole the show, but each singer’s story was gripping enough to warrant a film in its own right. Shifting from about 20 feet behind an array of iconic musicians and into their own spotlight were the gifted backing singers who have amped up, enhanced and generally helped make them great, including Merry Clayton (The Rolling Stones), Judith Hill (Michael Jackson) and Darlene Love (The Ronettes). In this Oscar-winning doc, though, it was true in the literal sense. 20 Feet From StardomĬast: Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Táta Vega, Jo Lawryīehind every great man is a great woman – at least, so the tired old cliché goes.
Stream Two Days, One Night now with Amazon Video 43. At no point does Cotillard smash a barstool over someone’s head.Ĭheck out Empire's review of Two Days, One Night here The famous Belgians likened the set-up to a Western, as Sandra staggers from showdown to showdown, each playing out with subtle variations. There was, if not an extinction-level event, definitely a pretty disastrous one driving the narrative here, as Marion Cotillard’s severely put-upon, pill-popping worker, Sandra, is subject to the humiliation of having to beg her colleagues to forego their bonuses so she can keep her job. But for anyone suffering CG fatigue, here was a reminder that a year with a film by the Belgians is automatically a better year. just a few of the things you’ll never, ever see in a Dardenne brothers movie. Two Days, One NightĬast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio RongioneĬar chases, smashing robots, extinction-level events. Stream The Two Faces Of January now with Amazon Video 44. The eyeball-wowing Greek backdrops made you wish there was an EasyJet flight direct to early ‘60s Athens.Ĭheck out Empire's review of The Two Faces Of January here Viggo Mortensen’s American-with-a-secret Chester MacFarland is Don Draper, only a little sweatier and less cocksure, while his co-stars, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac, bring fateful chemistry to this knotty three-hander. The estate of Patricia Highsmith doesn’t entrust the author’s works to just anybody, but the man they call ‘Hoss’ justified the faith with a lushly classical translation of her 1964 thriller onto the big screen where it teleported audiences back to the gilded era of Plein Soleil and Le Mépris. Hossein Amini has penned a few literary adaptations in his time, including a pair of wildly-contrasting gems ( Drive and The Wings Of The Dove), and his first stab at directing his own material can stand proudly in the same company. Cast: Oscar Isaac, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunstīest for.
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