Title: Room (2015)

Director: Lenny Abrahamson (Frank)

Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers

Plot: 5 year old Jack (Tremblay) and his loving mother (Larson) are held captive in a small room that they’ve been imprisoned in by Old Nick (Bridgers). As Jack begins to understand more about the world and why they are held captive, the two begin to plot their escape into the great big world that lay outside their walls.

“When I was small, I only knew small things. But now I’m five, I know everything!”

Review by Eddie on 18/01/2016

It says a lot about the quiet yet assured power of Room that despite the fact half of Lenny Abrahamson’s film takes place in the titular and small “room” or really prison that Brie Larsons Ma and her son Jack played by impressive newcomer Jacob Tremblay are kept in, scenes in the film constantly engage the…