Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Graham MooreStars: Mark Rylance, Dylan O'Brien, Johnny Flynn, Zoey Deutch, Simon Russell Beale, Nikki Amuka-Bird.Not to be confused with the 1973 crime drama of the same name that was based on a novel by Donald E Westlake and which starred Robert Duvall as a former prisoner out for revenge against the mob that double crossed him. This is an intelligent and literate, yet …
ORPHAN: FIRST KILL
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: William Brent BellStars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Matthew Finlan, Hiro Kanagawa, Samantha Walkes.In 2009, the horror film Orphan introduced us to Leena Klammer (played by Isabelle Fuhrman), a psychopathic woman in her thirties who looks like a ten-year-old girl due to hypopituitarism, a rare glandular disorder that means she doesn’t really age. …
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirectors: Mariano Cohn, Gaston DupratStars: Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martinez, Jose Luis Gomez.This Spanish/Argentinian co-production stars Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas and was one of the hits at the recent Spanish Film Festival. There have been many films that have explored the filmmaking process, from Singin’ In The Rain through to The Player, Robert Altman’s …
OPERATION MINCEMEAT
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: John MaddenStars: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Johnny Flynn, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, Simon Russell Beale, Rufus Wright, Mark Gatiss. Another film that proves that often truth is stranger than fiction. A case in point is this true story of an elaborate WWII deception operation conceived by British Intelligence to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion …
OFF THE RAILS
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Jules WilliamsonStars: Kelly Preston, Jenny Seagrove, Sally Phillips, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Ben Miller, Franco Nero, Judi Dench.Cliched, formulaic drama about a group of women heading off to Europe on a bonding journey and trying to reconnect with their past. We’ve seen this sort of thing done many times before in superior films, but Off The Rails falls flat and …
OVERLORD
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Julius AveryStars: Wyatt Russell, Bokeem Woodbine, Jovan Adepo, John Magaro, Jacob Anderson, Pilou Asbaek, Mathilde Olivier, Iain DeCaestecker, Gianny Taufer, Erich Redman, Dominic Applewhite.Overlord follows a platoon of US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who parachute into occupied France on the eve of the D-Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy to liberate …
