Freefall Productions

Bumblebee (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / US / 114 minutes “They literally call themselves “Decepticons”! That doesn’t set off any red flags?” Director: Travis Knight / Screenplay: Christina Hodson / Director of Photography: Enrique Chediak / Music: Dario Marianelli / Production: Michael Bay, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian for Paramount Pictures / Cast: Hailee Steinfeld (Charlie), Jorge Lendeborg, Jr. (Memo), John Cena (Agent Burns), John Ortiz (Dr. Powell), Dylan O’Brien (Bumblebee), Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime), Angela Bassett (Shatter), Justin Theroux (Dropkick). Michael Bay’s Transformers (2007) was a perfectly timed live action debut for the iconic ’80’s comic book and TV animation robots. Arriving not only at the right moment for CGI technology to properly do the concept photorealistic justice but also for the first generation of fans to introduce their own children t...

Blade Runner 2049 (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2017 / US / 144 minutes “Did it never occur to you that that was why you were summoned in the first place? Designed to do nothing short of fall for her right then and there. That is, if you were designed…” Director: Denis Villeneuve / Screenplay: Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick / Director of Photography: Roger Deakins / Music: Benjamin Wallfisch & Hans Zimmer / Production: Bud Yorkin, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove and Ridley Scott for Columbia Pictures / Cast: Ryan Gosling (“K”), Harrison Ford (Rick Deckard), Ana de Armas (Joi), Sylvia Hoeks (Luv), Robin Wright (Lieutenant Joshi), Mackenzie Davis (Mariette), Carla Juri (Dr. Ana Stelline), Lennie James (Mr. Cotton), David Bautista (Sapper Morton), Jared Leto (Niander Wallace), Edward James Olmos (Gaff), Barkhad Abdi (Doc...

Detroit (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2017 / US / 143 minutes “Nice try… But you have my statement: Police criminality needs to treated the same as any other form of criminality.” Director: Kathryn Bigelow / Screenplay: Mark Boal / Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd / Music: James Newton Howard / Production: Colin Wilson, Kathryn Bigelow, Matthew Budman, Mark Boal and Megan Ellison for Annapurna Pictures / Cast: John Boyega (Melvin Dismukes), Will Poulter (Krauss), Algee Smith (Larry Reed), Jacob Latimore (Fred Temple), Jason Mitchell (Carl Cooper), Hannah Murray (Julie Ann Hysell), Kaitlyn Dever (Karen Malloy), Jack Reynor (Demens), Anthony Mackie (Karl Greene), John Krasinski (Auerbach), Nathan Davis, Jr. (Aubrey Pollard, Jr.), Ben O’Toole (Flynn), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Aubrey Pollard, Sr.). In July 1967 the Detroit Police Department raided a party for returning black Vietnam veterans at an unlicense...

Green Room (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2016 / US / 95 minutes “If you back out now, I’ll tell them you’re Jewish!” Director: Jeremy Saulnier / Screenplay: Jeremy Saulnier / Director of Photography: Sean Porter / Music: Brooke Blair and Will Blair / Production: Neil Kopp, Victor Moyers and Anish Savjani for Broad Green Pictures / Cast: Anton Yelchin (Pat), Imogen Poots (Amber), Alia Shawkat (Sam), Patrick Stewart (Darcy Banker), Callum Turner (Tiger), Joe Cole (Reece), Macon Blair (Gabe), Eric Edelstein (Justin), Mark Webber (Daniel), Brent Werzner (Werm), David W. Thompson (Tad), Taylor Tunes (Emily). Hard- working ground level Punk band The Ain’t Rights are struggling through a tour of the Pacific Northwest in their van. Lead vocalist Tiger (Callum Turner), guitarist Sam (Alia Shawkat), bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin) and drummer Reece (Joe Cole) have just had a show cancelled and agree to play a replac...

 The Witch (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2015 / US-Canada / 92 minutes “Damn your Black Phillip!” Director: Robert Eggers / Screenplay: Robert Eggers / Director of Photography: Jarin Blaschke / Music: Mark Korven / Production: Daniel Bekerman, Lars Knudsen, Jodi Redmond, Rodrigo Teixeira and Jay Von Hoy for Code Red Productions / Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy (Thomasin), Ralph Ineson (William), Kate Dickie (Katherine), Harvey Scrimshaw (Caleb), Lucas Dawson (Jonas), Ellie Grainger (Mercy), Sarah Stephens (The Witch). New England, the 1630’s. Miserable Puritan couple William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie) and their long- suffering children are banished from Plymouth Colony after a religious dispute and relocate to a farm near a large, secluded forest. Soon after arriving, Katherine gives birth to their fifth child, Samuel.    The two eldest children, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Cale...

’71 (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2014 / UK / 99 minutes “Posh cunts telling thick cunts to kill poor cunts- that’s the army for you.” Director: Yann Demange / Screenplay: Gregory Burke / Director of Photography: Tat Radcliffe / Music: David Holmes / Production: Robin Gutch and Angus Lamont for Film 4 / Cast: Jack O’Connell (Gary Hook), Sam Reid (Lieutenant Armitage), Sean Harris (Captain Sandy Browning), Paul Anderson (Sergeant Leslie Lewis), David Wilmot (Boyle), Richard Dormer (Eamon), Charlie Murphy (Brigid), Killian Scott (James Quinn), Martin McCann (Paul Haggerty), Barry Keoghan (Sean), Jack Lowden (Private Thompson), Babou Ceesay (Corporal), Corey McKinley (Loyalist Child). In 1971, young British Army recruit Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) is sent to Northern Ireland. When Hook’s platoon is deployed to a volatile area of Belfast to assist the RUC with a house search, a protest against the British t...

The Salvation (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2014 / Denmark / 92 minutes “I was a soldier once. It taught me a lesson: don’t get into a fight you know you’re going to lose.” Director: Kristian Levring / Screenplay: Kristian Levring and Anders Thomas Jensen / Director of Photography: Jens Schlosser / Music: Kasper Winding / Production: Sisse Graum Jorgensen for Zentropa Entertainments / Cast: Mads Mikkelsen (Jon Jensen), Eva Green (Madelaine), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Henry Delarue), Mikael Presbrandt (Peter Jensen), Jonathan Pryce (Nathan Keane), Nanna Oland Fabricius (Marie Jensen),Toke Lars Bjarke (Kresten Jensen), David James (Tracker), Michael Redmond-James (Paul Delarue), Sean Cameron Michael (Lester). In 1871, Jon (Mads Mikkelsen), a Danish veteran of the Second Schleswig War, welcomes his wife Marie (Nanna Oland Fabricius) and son Kresten (Lars Bjarke) to the United States, where he has settled near ...

The Counsellor (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2013 / US-UK / 138 minutes “I always liked smart women but it’s been an expensive hobby.” Director: Ridley Scott / Screenplay: Cormac McCarthy / Director of Photography: Dariusz Wolski / Music: Daniel Pemberton / Production: Paula Schwartz, Steve Schwartz, Ridley Scott and Nick Wechsler for Scott Free Productions / Cast: Michael Fassbender (The Counsellor), Penelope Cruz (Laura), Cameron Diaz (Malkina), Javier Bardem (Reiner), Brad Pitt (Westray), Dean Norris (Buyer), Ruben Blades (Jefe), Natalie Dormer (Blonde), John Leguizamo (Randy). As one of the most acclaimed directors working today, Ridley Scott has been in the perfect position to pick and choose his projects for the past twenty years. With dozens of potential “Next films” always in the running at any one time, Scott had been working with various screenwriters to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s epic 1985...

A Field in England (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2013 / UK / 90 minutes “I shall consume all the ill fortune which you are set to unleash! I shall chew up all the selfish, scheming and ill intentions that men like you force upon men like me!” Director: Ben Wheatley / Screenplay: Amy Jump / Director of Photography: Laurie Rose / Music: Jim Williams / Production: Claire Jones for Film 4 / Cast: Reece Shearsmith (Whitehead), Michael Smiley (O’Neil), Peter Ferdinando (Jacob), Richard Glover (“Friend“), Ryan Cope (Cutler), Julian Barratt (Trower). During the English Civil War, Whitehead (Reece Shearsmith), an “Alchemist’s Assistant” and a soldier, Cutler (Ryan Cope), flee a battle through a hedge into an empty field. There, Whitehead and Cutler meet two other deserters: Jacob (Peter Ferdinando) and “Friend” (Richard Glover).    Cutler leads them through the field, promising that there is an a...

Blood Ties (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2013 / US-France / 127 minutes “It’s not our best attribute, I know that.” Director: Guillaume Canet / Screenplay: James Gray & Guillaume Canet, based on the novel Deux Freres by Bruno Papet & Michel Papet / Director of Photography: Christophe Offenstein / Music: Yodelice / Production: Alain Attal, Guillaume Canet, John Lesher, Hugo Selignac and Christopher Woodrow for Tresor Films / Cast: Clive Owen (Chris Pierzynski), Billy Crudup (Frank Pierzynski), Marion Cotillard (Monica D’Amato), Mila Kunis (Natalie), Zoe Saldana (Vanessa), James Caan (Leon Pierzynski), Lili Taylor (Marie Pierzynski), Domenick Lombardozzi (Mike), Matthias Schoenaerts (Anthony Scarfo), Griffin Dunne (McNally), Jamie Hector (Nick), Olek Krupa (Tommy). New York City, 1974. Chris Pierzynski (Clive Owen) is released from prison after serving twelve years. He’s reunited with his fa...

Dredd (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2012 / UK-South Africa / 95 minutes “Save me a lot of paperwork if you’d just confess right now…” Director: Pete Travis / Screenplay: Alex Garland, based on characters created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra / Director of Photography: Anthony Dod Mantle / Music: Paul Leonard Morgan / Production: Andrew MacDonald, Alex Garland and Allon Reich for DNA Films / Cast: Karl Urban (Judge Dredd), Olivia Thirlby (Anderson), Lena Headey (Madeline “Ma-Ma” Madrigal), Wood Harris (Kay), Warrick Grier (Caleb), Domhnall Gleeson (Clan Techie), Rakie Ayola (Chief Judge), Jason Cope (Zwirner). In the irradiated wasteland of a future United States, the people have moved into walled Mega- Cities and live in 200- storey tower blocks. With poverty through the roof and violent crime out of control, Mega- City One is policed by specially trained “Judges”, heavily armed law enforcers...

 Melancholia (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2011 / Denmark / 135 minutes “Is everybody in your family stark raving mad?” Director: Lars von Trier / Screenplay: Lars von Trier / Director of Photography: Manuel Alberto Claro / Production: Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth for Zentropa Entertainments / Cast: Kirsten Dunst (Justine), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Claire), Stellan Skarsgard (Jack), Charlotte Rampling (Gaby), John Hurt (Dexter), Udo Kier (Wedding Planner), Keifer Sutherland (John). The world ends in Melancholia. The film opens at the story’s conclusion with the complete destruction of the planet well and truly confirmed. What follows is a two act artsy drama about the relationship between sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in the time leading up to the apocalypse.    We’re first introduced to the sisters and the rest of their eccentric, dysfuncti...

 Drive (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2011 / US / 100 minutes “A lot of guys mess around with married women. But you’re the only one I know who robs a joint to pay back the husband.” Director: Nicolas Winding Refn / Screenplay: Hossein Amini, based on the novel by James Sallis / Director of Photography: Newton Thomas Sigel / Music: Cliff Martinez / Production: Michel Litvak, John Palermo, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker and Adam Siegel for Bold Films / Cast: Ryan Gosling (Driver), Carey Mulligan (Irene), Bryan Cranston (Shannon), Albert Brooks (Bernie Rose), Oscar Isaac (Standard), Christina Hendricks (Blanche), Ron Perlman (Nino), Kaden Leos (Benicio). The protagonist of Nicolas Winding Refn’s outstanding contemporary but undeniably ’80’s- flavoured Neo Noir thriller Drive never gets a name. “Driver” (Ryan Gosling) is a mechanic and film stuntman by day but at night he works as a getaway driver for...

 The Guard (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2011 / Ireland / 96 minutes “I’m Irish, sure. Racism’s a part of my culture.” Director: John Michael McDonagh / Screenplay: John Michael McDonagh / Director of Photography: Larry Smith / Music: Calexico / Production: Chris Clark, Ed Guiney, Flora Fernandez-Marengo and Martin McDonagh for Reprisal Films / Cast: Brendan Gleeson (Sergeant Gerry Boyle), Don Cheadle (Agent Wendell Everett), Liam Cunningham (Francis Sheehy-Skeffington), Mark Strong (Clive Cornell), David Wilmot (Liam O’Leary), Katarina Cas (Gabriela McBride), Pat Short (Colum), Fionnula Flanagan (Eileen Boyle), Rory Keenan (Aiden McBride), Micheal Og Lane (Eugene). Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), an officer of the Garda Siochana in Connemara, appears a lazy and ineffective enforcer of the law to his colleagues due to his frequent drinking on the job, occasional indulgence i...

The Devil’s Double (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com)  2011 / Belgium-Netherlands / 109 minutes “This is the pain you give to the people of Iraq. Pain that never ends!” Director: Lee Tamahori / Screenplay: Michael Thomas and Emjay Rechsteiner, based on the books by Latif Yahia / Director of Photography: Sam McCurdy / Music: Christian Henson / Production: Paul Breuls, Emjay Rechsteiner and Catherine Vandeleene for Staccato Films / Cast: Dominic Cooper (Latif Yahia / Uday Hussein), Ludivine Sagnier (Sarrab), Raad Rawi (Munem), Philip Quast (Saddam Hussein / Faoaz), Mimoun Oaissa (Ali), Khalid Laith (Yassem Al-Helou), Dar Salim (Azzam), Mem Ferda (Kamel Hana Gegeo). In 1987, Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper), an Iraqi soldier fighting in the Iran - Iraq War, is recalled to Baghdad. There, he is brought before Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday Hussein (also played by Cooper), an extremely unpredictable and violent...