TWISTERS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Lee Isaac Chung Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney, David Corenswet, Harry Hadden-Patton, Sasha Lane, Katy O’Brian, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, Tunde Adebimpe, James Paxton. In 1996 filmmaker Jan De Bont and writer Michael Crichton gave audiences a thrill ride with the blockbuster disaster film …
THE BIKERIDERS
THE BIKERIDERS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jeff Nichols Stars: Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Norman Reedus, Toby Wallace, Damon Herriman, Boyd Holbrook. In the 60s and early 70s, the biker exploitation movie was a popular subgenre of its own. Many of them were produced by the independent American International Pictures. That period yielded dozens of biker films like Angels As …
THE PROMISED LAND
THE PROMISED LAND Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Nikolaj Arcel Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Kristine Kujath, Gustav Lindh, Melina Hagberg, Morten Hee Andersen. This true story, set in Denmark in the mid 1700s, reunites star Mads Mikkelsen with director Nikolaj Arcel (who directed him in 2012’s A Royal Affair). Impoverished former soldier Ludvig Kahlen (Mikkelsen) lives …
THE SITTING DUCK.
THE SITTING DUCK Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jean-Paul Salome Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gregory Gadebois, Yvan Attal, Marina Fois, Christoph Paou, Bernard Gabay, Pierre Delandochamps, Francois-Xavier Demaison, Gilles Cohen, Mara Tarquin, Christian Hecq. This tense political thriller from director Jean-Paul Salome (Arsene Lupin, etc) proves once again that fact is often stranger than …
THE GARFIELD MOVIE
THE GARFIELD MOVIE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mark Dindal Stars: voices of Chris Pratt, Samuel L Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillen, Jeff Foxworthy, Snoop Dogg, Alicia Grace. Garfield, the lazy, pizza and lasagne loving cat created by cartoonist Jim Davis 48 years ago has become part of pop culture. He has appeared in a daily comic strip …
THE THREE MUSKETEERS PART 1: D’ARTAGNAN
THE THREE MUSKETEERS PART 1: D'ARTAGNAN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Martin Bourboulon Stars: Francois Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmai, Eva Green, Vicky Krieps, Lyna Khoudri, Eric Ruf, Louis Garrel, Marc Barbe, Julien Fison. Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckling novel depicting the adventures of Louis XIII’s titular musketeers was first published in 1844, and it has been adapted multiple …