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: 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 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: Chris Gorak Stars: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, Veronika Ozerova, Joel Kinnaman, Dato Bakhtadze, Gosha Kutsenko. The Darkest Hour ranks alongside other recent alien invasion movies like the noisy and disappointing Battle: Los Angeles and Skyline. This is yet another cliched, special effects driven war of the [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Pedro Alomodovar Stars: Antonio Banderas, Blanca Suarez, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes. The Skin I Live In is the latest film from flamboyant Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, and it explores some of his usual themes and preoccupations – obsession, sex, sexual identity, transgender issues, love and desire. It also reunites him [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joe Cornish Stars: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Nick Frost, Luke Treadaway, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones, Jumayn Hunter, Simon Howard, Sammy Williams, Franz Drameh. Attack The Block is a sci-fi comedy/thriller that does for the alien invasion movie what the fantastic Shaun Of The Dead did for zombie movies. This is [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Bill Condon Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Michael Sheen, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser, Gil Birmingham, Anna Kendrick, Kellan Lutz, Sarah Clarke, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Justin Chon, Jamie Campbell Bower, Christian Carmargo, Mia Maestro, Maggie Grace. As the phenomenally successful Twilight series moves towards [...]
by GREG KING. “We thought Human Centipede 2 would be this kind of niche film, that only horror fans would go and see.” Human Centipede 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to Tom Six’s 2009 horror film Human Centipede, in which a sinister surgeon sewed several people together in a bizarre experiment. The film was [...]
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