Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jon M Chu Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis, Jonathan Pryce, Adrianne Palicki, D J Cotrona, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson, Byung-hun Lee, Walton Goggin.Hasbro makes action figures for 12-year old boys. And lately they have also found success by making live action films featuring those very same action figures, like Transformers and G.I. Joe, films that are also aimed …
GNOMEO AND JULIET
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Kelly AsburyStars: voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt,Jim Cummings, Ashley Jensen, Dolly Parton, Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart.Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of star-crossed lovers from feuding families is retold with garden gnomes. This cute but offbeat idea could easily have been a tacky misfire of epic …
GET LOW
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Aaron SchneiderStars: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Lukas Black, Sissy Spacek, Bill Cobbs.This modest and slyly comic film is based on the true story of a man who staged his own funeral party while he was alive to witness it.The setting is depression era Tennessee. Felix Burns (Robert Duvall) is a hermit, who for the past forty years has lived as a recluse on his own …
GET THE GRINGO
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Adrian GrunbergStars: Mel Gibson, Daniel Gimenez Cacho. Peter Stormare, Bob Gunton, Peter Gerety, Dolores Heredia, Kevin Hernandez.Get The Gringo is an unusual and violent prison drama that marks a return to form of sorts for Mel Gibson as the flawed action hero. Most of the action takes place inside Mexico’s notorious El Pueblito prison in Tijuana, a corrupt …
GET CARTER
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Stephen KayStars: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Michael Caine, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, John C McGinley, Rhona Mitre.With superb films like Copland and Cliffhanger but distant memories, fading action hero Sylvester Stallone badly needs a hit movie to restore some of his former glory as a box office champion. Unfortunately, this rather …
GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector:Rob Reiner Stars:Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, Craig T Nelson, William H Macy, Lucas Black, Jerry Levine, Margo Martindale, Terry O'Quinn, Bill Smitrovich, Lloyd "Benny" Bennett, Michael O'Keefe, Brock Peters, Wayne Rogers, Bill Cobbs, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Andy Romano Running Time:130 minutesRob Reiner returns to the courtroom for the first time since …
