Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Madonna Stars: Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D’Arcy, Oscar Isaac, Ricahrd Coyle, James Fox, Judy Parfitt, Laurence Fox, David Harbour, Geoffrey Palmer. A tale of two women? This overwrought drama looking at the relationship between King Edward VIII and the brash divorcee Wallis Simpson is an ambitious failure for Madonna, [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Marius Holst Stars: Stellan Skarsgard, Benjamin Helstad, Trond Nilssen, Krostoffer Joner, Magnus Langlete. This grim but gripping drama dramatises the violent 1915 uprising at a correctional facility on Bastoy Island. The film is set in the notorious Bastoy Reform School, situated on an island in the Oslo fjord, a sort [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Nicholas Stoller Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Rhys Ifans, Alison Brie, Lauren Weedman, Jacki Weaver, David Paymer, Mimi Kennedy, Jim Piddock, Dakota Johnson, Mindy Kaling, Randall Park, Kevin Hart, Molly Shannon, Chris Parnell, Brian Posehn. Can you remember a time when the average romantic comedy ran for a [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh Stars: real life SEALs, Rosalyn Sanchez, Jason Cottle, Nestor Serrano, Alex Veadov, Emilio Rivera. Films don’t get much more gung ho than this! Real life active-duty Navy SEALS play Navy SEALs, adding a touch of verisimilitude to this action-packed, fictional account of a real life [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Boaz Yakin Stars: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Robert John Burke, James Hong, Anson Mount, Chris Sarandon, Sandor Tecsy, Joseph Sikora, Reggie Lee, Igor Jijikine, Matt O’Toole, Jack Gwaltney, Barry Bradford, Jay Giannone. Bullets fly and bodies pile up on the streets of New York in this slick but generic action [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joss Whedon Stars: Robert Downey jr, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Clark Gregg, Jeremy Renner, Stellan Skarsgard, Gwyneth Paltrow. This big budget special effects driven blockbuster from the Marvel studios brings together four of their best known superheroes – Captain America (Chris [...]
By GREG KING The edgy, tense and suspenseful thriller Wish You Were Here is an impressive debut feature from Kieran Darcy-Smith, a Sydney-based actor and short filmmaker who is part of the filmmaking collective known as Blue Tongue, which includes siblings Nash and Joel Edgerton. Their films include David Michod’s award winning Animal Kingdom and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Scott Hicks Stars: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner, Jay R Ferguson, Riley Thomas Stewart, Adam Lefevre. Former pharmaceutical salesman Nicholas Sparks writes schmaltzy romantic novels about loss, love and renewal that are perfect fodder for the screen. The Notebook is probably the best adaptation of one of his sappy [...]
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