Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gary McKendry Stars: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Yvonne Strahovski, Ben Mendelsohn, Adewale Akinnuaye-Aghaje, David Whiteley, Lachy Hulme, Firass Dirani, Nick Tate, Matthew Nable, Billie Brown, Grant Bowler, Michael Dorman. This formulaic but exciting action thriller is not a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joe Carnahan Stars: Liam Neeson, Nonso Anozie, Joe Anderson, Dallas Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Anne Openshaw. It’s man versus wild in this harrowing tale of survival that makes the Anthony Hopkins/Alec Baldwin film The Edge seem quite tame by comparison. The Grey has been adapted from Ian Mackenzie [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Daniel Espinosa Stars: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Brendan Gleason, Vera Farmiga, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick, Reuben Blades. Denzel Washington is always good value, and lends strength and credibility to films, even some of the more formulaic and instantly forgettable ones like the generic spy thriller Safe House. And even when [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: george Lucas Stars: Liam Neeson, Samuel L Jackson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ray Park, Terence Stamp, Jack Thompson. When it was initially released in July 1999, expectations were high for this eagerly awaited and long overdue prequel to George Lucas’ classic sci-fi adventure Star Wars. Given the barrage [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Mans Malind and Bjorn Stein Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Charles Dance, Theo James, India Eisley, Sandrine Holt, Kris Holden-Reid, Wes Bentley. Having largely sat out the origins story that was Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans, Kate Beckinsale returns as the feisty vampire assassin Selene, and she again [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Brad Peyton Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Vanessa Hudgens, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Luiz Guzman, Kristin Davis. At the world premiere of Journey 2 at Melbourne’s Jam Factory cinemas, stars Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Hutcherson kept the preview audience waiting 90 minutes while they walked the red carpet, pressed the flesh and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Martin Scorsese Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Helen McCrory, Richard Griffiths, Emily Mortimer, Frances de la Tour, Christopher Lee, Michael Stuhlbarg. Hugo is a fascinating and very enjoyable fable set in Paris in the 1930’s. It is also a loving [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Guy Ritchie Stars: Robert Downey jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly, Geraldine James, Eddie Marsan, Rachel McAdams, Paul Anderson. The name is Holmes, Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictitious sleuth used his considerable powers of deduction, not brawn or violence, to solve crimes. Fans [...]
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