Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Stephen Daldry Stars: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max Von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Caldwell, Stephen Henderson. British theatre director Stephen Daldry tackles big political and emotional themes in his films (Billy Elliott, The Reader, etc). Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close poignantly deals with the [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Paddy Considine Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan. This hard hitting and confronting drama marks the directorial debut of actor Paddy Considine (In America, etc). Considine appeared in a number of films by British director Shane Meadows (A Room For Romeo Brass, Dead Man’s Shoes, etc), and he [...]
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: Steve McQueen Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie. This powerful, uncompromising and sexually explicit drama reunites Michael Fassbender with Steve McQueen, the director of Hunger. Shame is a confronting character study about loneliness, sex, addiction and the high price we sometimes pay for our addictions. It [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Sucsy Stars: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange, Jessica McNamee, Scott Speedman, Wendy Crewson, Tatiana Maslany, Lucas Bryant. Loosely inspired by a true story The Vow is a rather ho-hum and formulaic romantic drama that is the perfect date movie for Valentine’s Day. Paige (Rachel McAdams) and [...]
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: Sean Durkin Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes, Brady Corbet, Julia Garner, Louise Krause. This dark, haunting, slow burning and creepy psychological drama was one of the more talked about films of last year’s MIFF. A psychological drama about a young woman who emerges back into the [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Josh Trank Stars: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B Jordan, Michael kelly, Ashley Hinshaw. A clever variation on the whole X-men, Carrie, and Heroes genre, Chronicle is yet another film along the lines of other “found footage” faux-documentary films like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield. However, Chronicle is a [...]
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