PRESENCE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Steven Soderbergh Stars: 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 …
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Reviewed by GREG KING Director: James Mangold Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas, Ethann Isidore, John Rhys-Davies, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Karen Allen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Olivier Richters, Martin McDougall, Nasser Memarzia. This is the fifth film in the franchise featuring Harrison Ford in his …
THE MUMMY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Alex Kurtzman Stars: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Sofia Boutella, Courtney B Vance, Marwan Kenzai. Universal has launched a brand new franchise under the umbrella of Dark Universe, in which the studio plans to remake all of those classic monster movies from their vaults, like Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman. Most of those monster movies …
INFERNO
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ron Howard Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Xavier Laurent, Ana Ulara, Ida Darvish. Inferno is the third film adapted from the series of novels written by Dan Brown featuring the religious symbologist Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks). A symbologist is the type of arcane profession that only exists within the …
MORTDECAI
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Koepp Stars: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Bettany, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn, Jonny Pasvolsky, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Culkin, Ulrich Thomsen, Guy Burnet, Paul Whitehouse. Based on a 1973 novel Don't Point That Thing At Me, written by the late Kyril Bonfiglioli, the underwhelming Mortdecai is a flat and laboured comedy caper film that produces yet another dud …
JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kenneth Branagh Stars: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh. Chris Pine is obviously the go-to guy at the moment for filmmakers planning on rebooting lucrative franchises. Having previously played Captain Kirk in J J Abrams' reboot of the Star Trek franchise, Pine now tackles Tom Clancy's heroic CIA analyst Jack Ryan. Pine follows in the footsteps of Alec …