Reviewed by GREG KING Director: J J Abrams Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, Leonard Nimoy. The original Star Trek television series ran for only three seasons between 1966-1968 before it was cancelled, but it acquired cult status [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Shane Black Stars: Robert Downey jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau, James Badge Dale, Miguel Ferrer, William Sadler, Ty Simpkins, Paul Bettany, Spencer Garrett, Stephanie Szostak, Mark Ruffalo. When a successful film spawns a sequel it is often rushed into production to capitalise [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Antoine Fuqua Stars: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Rick Yune, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo, Robert Forster, Angela Bassett, Cole Hauser, Dylan McDermott, Ashley Judd, Rhada Mitchell, Finley Jacobsen, Sean O’Bryan. Die Hard in the White House? As with Wolfgang Peterson’s superior thriller Air Force One, the US President is taken hostage [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Robert Redford Stars: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Terrence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Julie Christie, Sam Elliott, Jackie Evancho, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Jenkins, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling. As a filmmaker Robert Redford has a keen interest in big themes, politics and America’s history of violence. All [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg Stars: Pal S Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Gustaf Skarsgard, Agnes Kittelsen. This epic film is a dramatisation of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s epic 1948 journey in which he set sail across the Pacific Ocean, travelling some 4300 miles on [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jonathan Levine Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Rob Corddry, Analeigh Tipton, Dave Franco. A zombie date movie? A post-apocalyptic love story? Warm Bodies is both, and offers a fresh twist on the familiar cliches of the zombie film at the same time. It has the same appeal [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Brendan Maher Stars: Bindi Irwin, Toby Wallace, Matthew Lillard, John Waters, Sebastian Gregory, Jack Pearson, Nathan Derrick, Chris Haywood. This is the sequel to 2008′s Nim’s Island, which was based on a series of children’s adventure books written by Wendy Orr. In that film Nim was a lonely girl stuck [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Wayne Knight, Samuel L Jackson, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, B D Wong, Bob Peck. Twenty years after it first hit screens, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi action thriller Jurassic Park has been rereleased, and retro fitted for 3D. The film stands [...]
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