Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Clint Eastwood Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench, Josh Lucas, Drmot Mulroney, Ed Westwick, Jordan Bridges, Ken Howard, Stephen Root, Jeffrey Donovan, Zach Grenier, Denis O’Hare, David Clennon, Lea Thompson. For nearly fifty years, J Edgar Hoover was the most powerful man in American law enforcement. Not [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Phyllida Lloyd Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Alexandra Roach, Harry LLoyd, Iain Glen, Richard E Grant, Anthony Head, Roger Allam, Julian Wadham, Nicholas Farrell, John Sessions. Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher in this warts-and-all biopic about the formidable female Prime Minister, who was also Britain’s longest serving PM [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman Stars: James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, Treat Williams, Alessandro Nivola, Bob Balaban, Jon Prescott. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Allen Ginsberg was one of the most famous and revered poets of the 20th century, [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Diane Kurys Stars: Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Jeanne Balibar, Arielle Dombasle, Lionel Abelanski, Guillaume Gallienne, Denis Podalydes, Samuel labarthe, Chantal Neuwirth, Gwendoline Hamon. Biopics about writers are often difficult because the craft of writing itself is such an internal process that it doesn’t naturally lend itself to dramatic moments on [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Anthony Fabian Stars: Sophie Okenedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge, Ella Ramangwane. Films like The Power Of One and Cry Freedom have explored the evils of South Africa’s apartheid era. But few films have examined these turbulent times from such a personal perspective as Skin, a moving biopic about [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Peter Duncan Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Barbara Hershey, Emily Woof, Claudia Karvan, Simon Burke, Lynda Cropper, Jamie Croft. “Passion can destroy a genius if it is not contained.” There’s probably a great film yet to be made about the life and excesses of legendary, eccentric Australian pianist Percy Grainger, who dominated [...]
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