GREEDY PEOPLE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Potsy Ponciroli Stars: Himesh Patel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lily James, Tim Blake Nelson, Uzo Aduba, Traci Lords, Simon Rex, Jim Gaffigan, Jose Maria Yazpik, Joey Lauren Adams, Neva Howell. This blackly comic and atmospheric low budget crime drama from director Potsy Ponciroli (Old Henry, etc) and writer Mike Vukadinovich (tv series Runaways, etc) is set in the …
IRIS AND THE MEN
IRIS AND THE MEN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Caroline Vignal Stars: Laure Calamy, Vincent Elbaz, Suzanne De Baecque. Charming little French romcom that deals with some troubling themes albeit in a light fashion. Iris (played by Laure Calamy) is fifty and runs a successful dental practice in Paris but she seems to be experiencing a mid-life crisis. When the film opens Iris confesses her …
MR BLAKE AT YOUR SERVICE
MR BLAKE AT YOUR SERVICE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gilles Legardinier Stars: John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Emilie Dequenne, Philippe Bas, Eugenie Anselin. Andrew Blake (played by John Malkovich) is a successful businessman who is grieving the death of his beloved wife Diane four months earlier. He first met her at a mansion in France forty years earlier and it was love at first sight. The couple were …
DESPICABLE ME 4
DESPICABLE ME 4 Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage Stars: voices of Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Sofia Vergara, Steve Coogan, Stephen Colbert, Joey King, Pierre Coffin, Chloe Fineman, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Madison Polan. The Despicable Me series, created by French filmmaker Pierre Coffin, has developed and expanded over the past 14 years, and the franchise …
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS reviewed by GREG KING Director: Thea Sharrock Stars: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Anjana Vasan, Gemma Jones, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Scanlan, Lolly Adefope, Alicia Weir, Hugh Skinner, Paul Chahidi, Malachi Kirby. This engaging, hugely entertaining and outrageous mix of comedy and drama is based on a true story about an obscene letter writing scandal that happened in the …
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON.
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ariane Louis-Seize Stars: Sara Montpetit, Felix-Antoine Benard, Noemei O'Farrell, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, Marie Brassard, Gabriel-Antoine Roy. What a great title! Evocative, yet strange enough to whet the appetite for what is essentially a blend of horror, black comedy, teen romance and coming of age …
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