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THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Robert Redford Stars: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Terrence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Julie Christie, Sam Elliott, Jackie Evancho, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Jenkins, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling. As a filmmaker Robert Redford has a keen interest in big themes, politics and America’s history of violence. All [...]

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THE IMPOSTER

Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Bart Layton. It has often been said that truth is stranger than fiction. This beguiling documentary from British filmmaker Bart Layton explores yet another one of those stories that is so bizarre it is hard to believe it is true. In fact a lot of what transpires in the [...]

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THE LAST STAND

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kim Jee-Woon Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Eduardo Noriega, Luis Guzman, Jamie Alexander, Johnny Knoxville, Peter Stormare, Zach Gilford, Rodrigo Santoro, Genesis Rodriguez, Christina Leucas, Harry Dean Stanton. Arnold Schwarzenegger always said he’d be back. And here he is again, larger than life back on the big screen playing the [...]

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J EDGAR

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 [...]

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THE GUARD

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Michael McDonagh Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Fionnula Flanagan, Rory Keenan, Katarina Cas, Pat Shortt, Darren Healy, Gary Lyndon. This thoroughly enjoyable and superbly written comic crime caper takes the tropes of the odd couple/buddy cop formula (films like the Lethal Weapon and [...]

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