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 [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Shawn Levy Stars: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis, James RebhornOlga Fonda, Karl Yune. Real Steel is essentially an adolescent boy’s fantasy movie about giant boxing robots. But thankfully it lacks the noise, chaos, extravagant visual effects and bombastic approach of Michael Bay’s Transformers [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Scott Stewart Stars: Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Chrsitopher Plummer, Stephen Moyer, Lily Collins, Brad Dourif, Madchen Amcik, Alan Dale. Unlike the recent Cowboys And Aliens, which combined two popular genres in an entertaining mash-up, Priest somehow is a rather dour and visually ugly hybrid of the [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jon Favreau Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Forde, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine, Adam Beach, Noah Ringer, Clancy Brown, Buck Taylor, Walter Goggins, Ana de la Reguera, Brian Duffy. As a genre the traditional western is virtually moribund, but Hollywood keeps churning out some interesting variations on the [...]
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