Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Isabel Coixet Stars: Emily Mortimer, Bill Night, Patricia Clarkson, Honor Kneafsey, James Lance, Reg Wilson, Hunter Tremayne, Frances Barber, Julie Christie. The Bookshop is set in the sleepy small coastal village of Hardborough in 1959. Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) is a war widow who relocates to this small town with… Continue Reading »
THE PARTY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sally Potter Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Timothy Spall, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Cherry Jones, Bruno Ganz. Not to be confused with Blake Edwards’ hilarious slapstick Tatiesque comedy from 1968 that starred Peter Sellers as an accident prone Indian actor who ruins a swank Hollywood party, this black comedy… Continue Reading »
THE MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Wes Ball Stars: Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson, Will Poulter, Dexter Darden, Barry Pepper, Rosa Salazer, Giancarlo Esposito, Ki Hong Lee, Jacob Lofland, Walton Goggins, Katherine McNamara, Nathalie Emmanuel. The Maze Runner: The Death Cure successfully brings to a conclusion the generic, post-apocalyptic dystopian saga based… Continue Reading »
ONE DAY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Lone Scherfig Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott. At first this heartbreaking romantic drama seems like a variation of Same Time, Next Year, the 1978 Robert Mulligan drama in which Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn carried out an illicit affair over the course of 25 years, meeting… Continue Reading »
