Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Robert Redford Stars: Robin Wright, Colm Meaney, Kevin Kline, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Danny Huston, Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long. As a director Robert Redford seems to be drawn towards stories that explore his interest in politics, American history and miscarriages of justice. He has found the ideal material in the story of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), a widow who …
CONVICTION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tony Goldwyn Stars: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo, Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis, Peter Gallagher, Ari Graynor. Hilary Swank was obviously on the lookout for more Oscar bait when she chose Conviction as her next film project. Part courtroom drama, part prison film, Conviction is based on a true story of a miscarriage of justice, and tells of another battler …
HIGH CRIMES
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Carl Franklin Stars: Ashley Judd, Jim Caviziel, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Davison, Adam Scott Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman are reunited for the first time since the slick serial-killer thriller Kiss The Girls, and their easy-going rapport and familiarity lifts this gripping but occasionally cliched thriller. Based on a best selling novel by Joseph Finder, High Crimes is a …
MEN OF HONOUR
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: George Tillman Stars: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding jr, Charlize Theron This true story of racism and military heroism ultimately fails to satisfy. In the 1940's, Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding jr), a poor sharecropper's son, was determined to become the first Afro-American diver in the Navy. Not only did he have to struggle against the racism of the navy that …
