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 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 [...]
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: 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: Andrew Niccol Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, Matt Bomer, Toby Hemingway, Ethan Peck, Matt O’Leary. So, what is your time worth? This new sci-fi thriller comes from New Zealand born filmmaker Andrew Niccol, who wrote The Truman Show and directed [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. It’s Aliens on ice! This is the third version of The Thing, and follows the 1951 Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby thriller, adapted from the novella Who Goes There? by John W Campbell, Jr, and which [...]
by GREG KING In John Carpenter’s 1982 cult classic The Thing a US scientific crew in the polar ice cap was threatened by a mysterious alien creature that was able to hide within human hosts. This claustrophobic horror film was itself a remake of Howard Hawks’ 1951 thriller that was heavily laden with cold war [...]
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