Reviewed by GREG KING (Artisan Entertainment/Dendy) Director: Darren Aronofsky Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Louise Lasser, Sean Gullette Running time: 102 minutes. Darren Aronofsky first burst onto the scene with Pi, his visually exciting but virtually incomprehensible thriller mixing mathematics and paranoia. His second film deals with more emotionally [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING (20th Century Fox) Director: Robert Redford Stars: Matt Damon, Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch, Lane Smith, Harve Presnell, J Michael Moncrief, Jack Lemmon (uncredited) Running time: 123 minutes. It was Mark Twain who once said that golf was a good walk spoiled by having to hit a little [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING (Columbia Tristar) Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Stars: Franka Potente, Benno Furmann, Anna Loos, Holger Speckhahn, Sebastian Blomberg, Traugott Buhre, Rudiger Vogler Running time: 99 minutes (German, with English subtitles). It’s always something of a worry when a film’s marketing strategy is solely designed around the star and their last film. Such is [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING (Paramount/Studio Canal/UIP) Director: Nora Ephron Stars: John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O’Neill, Bill Pullman, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Weston, Michael Moore, Michael Rapaport Running time: 106 minutes. John Travolta bounces back after the dismal Battlefield Earth, a film so truly awful that it could have killed the career of a [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING (Warner Bros/Village Roadshow) Director: Mimi Leder Stars: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, Jim Caviezel, Angie Dickinson, Jon Bon Jovi Running time: 125 minutes. Pay It Forward is an earnest although occasionally saccharine film that seems to represent a new moral switch in Hollywood thinking, with honesty and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING (Dreamworks/Columbia Tristar) Director: Cameron Crowe Stars: Patrick Fuguit, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Fairuza Balk, Anna Paquin, Philip Symour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel, Peter Frampton Running time: 123 minutes. Writer/director Cameron Crowe’s first film since the highly acclaimed Jerry Maguire is this superb, semi-autobiographical coming of age [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING (Universal/MGM/UIP) Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Frankie R Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Ivano Marescotti, David Andrews, Zeljko Ivanek, Hazelle Goodman, Alex Corrado, Marco Greco Running time: 131 minutes. One of the most eagerly awaited sequels of the past few years has been this [...]
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