Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sam Mendes Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Albert Finney, Ben Wishaw, Helen McCrory, Bereniece Marlohe, Ola Rapace. This 23rd film in the successful James Bond series repositions the franchise as Bond celebrates 50 years. In recent years Bond’s dominance in the spy [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Madden Stars: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, Tena Desae, Lillette Dubey. In this day and age, it seems that everything is being outsourced to India, even retirement. Lured by advertisements for the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and bolstered [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Simon Curtis Stars: Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Emma Watson, Zoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones, Dougray Scott, Derek Jacobi. Hollywood created a superstar, but fame was the steep price Marilyn Monroe had to pay for her image. There are lots of apocryphal stories concerning the behaviour [...]
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: Cary Fukunaga Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins, Jamie Bell, Simon McBurney. This is the umpteenth version of Charlotte Bronte’s classic 1847 novel about a plain, obscure and poor orphan girl who lands a job as a governess and eventually captures the heart of her mysterious employer. [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rob Marshall Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren. A Tony award winning play, Nine was loosely inspired by Fellini’s 1963 classic 8 1/2, his acerbic semi-autobiographical work about a director struggling to realise his vision on the screen. It is [...]
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