PROJECT HAIL MARY Reviewed by GREG KINGDirectors: Phil Lord and Christopher MillerStars: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Huller, James Ortiz, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, Milana Vayntrub, Priya Kansara.The term “Hail Mary” derives from American football and refers to a desperate, last ditch play that would win the game. It was originally coined in the 1930s.Middle school science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) …
PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN
PEAKY BLINDERS: THE IMMORTAL MAN Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Tom HarperStars: Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Stephen Graham, Packy Lee, Ned Dennehy, Sophie Rundle, Ian Peck, Jay Lycurgo.The gritty tv series Peaky Blinders ran for six seasons between 2013 and 2022. The series centred around a fictitious version of the real criminal gang that ruled Birmingham from the 1880s …
PREDATOR: BADLANDS
PREDATOR: BADLANDS Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Dan TrachtenbergStars: Dimitrius Schuster-Koulomatangi, Elle Fanning, Michael Homik, Reuben de Jong, Cameron Brown, Rohinal Nayaran.The Predator saga began in 1987 with the sci-fi action thriller that pitted Arnold Schwarzenegger and a special forces team against the Youtja, a technologically advanced extraterrestrial creature in the jungles of Central …
PRESENCE
PRESENCE Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Steven SoderberghStars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, Callina Liang, West Mulholland, Julia Fox. Steven Soderbergh’s latest film is a low budget supernatural haunted house tale that could be a distant cousin of the supernatural Paranormal Activity series. But unlike those films, which drew upon the found footage aesthetic, in Presence all of the …
PADDINGTON IN PERU
PADDINGTON IN PERU Reviewed by GREG KING.Director: Dougal WilsonStars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris, Imelda Staunton, Carla Tous, Hayley Atwell, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant. This is the third film in the series following the adventures of everybody’s favourite marmalade loving bear, and it is full of the …
PIECE BY PIECE
PIECE BY PIECE Reviewed by GREG KINGDocumentaryDirector: Morgan NevilleStars: Pharrell Williams. “If life was like a Lego box we could shape it how we like,” says multi-Grammy award winning singer, hip hop artist and record producer Pharrell Williams. Thus we get this unconventional and genre-defying documentary about Williams, best known for his Oscar-nominated song Happy, from …
