THE ACCOUNTANT 2 Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gavin O'Connor Stars: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Allison Robertson, Alison Wright, J K Simmons, Robert Morgan, Daniella Pineda. In 2016 Ben Affleck introduced us to the character of Christian Wolff, an autistic accountant with a sideline as a lethal hitman in the film The Accountant. It wasn’t a great film and it didn’t really need a …
SATURDAY NIGHT
SATURDAY NIGHT Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jason Reitman Stars: Gabriel La Belle, Cory Michael Smith, Matt Wood, Dylan O'Brien, Willem Dafoe, J K Simmons, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Rachel Sennott, Ella Hunt, Emily Fairn, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Ellen Boscov, Tommy Dewey, Catherine Curtin, Andrew Barth Feldman, Nicholas Podany, Robert Wuhl, Jon Batiste, Brian Welch, Paul Rust, …
JUSTICE LEAGUE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Zack Snyder Stars: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Ciaran Hinds, Jeremy Irons, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, J K Simmons, Joe Morton, Connie Nielsen, Amber Heard, Billy Crudup, David Thewlis. While Marvel tends to dominate the cinematic superhero and comic book market at the moment, DC comics are attempting to make inroads with their …
THE SNOWMAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tomas Alfredson Stars: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, J K Simmons, Val Kilmer, Toby Jones, Michael Yates, David Dencik, Jonas Karlsson, James D'Arcy, Jakob Oftebro, Adrian Dunbar, Chloe Sevigny, Ronan Vibert, Genevieve O'Reilly. Nordic noir tends to be darker and bleaker than your typical Hollywood crime thriller, probably because …
PATRIOTS DAY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Peter Berg Stars: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, J K Simmons, Christopher O'Shea, Michelle Monaghan, Alex Wolff, Themo Melikidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jake Picking, Jimmy O Yang, Melissa Benoist, James Colby, Michael Beach, Adam Trese, Khandi Alexander. Is it too soon for a film depicting the 2013 terrorist bombing of the annual Boston Marathon? Some would probably …
LA LA LAND
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Damien Chazelle Stars: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J K Simmons, Tom Everett Scott. The new film from director Damien Chazelle (the superb Whiplash) is a charming and ambitious take on the old fashioned technicolour Hollywood musical and it harks back to those classic musicals of the 50s and 60s, a bygone era of glamour and romance. The film is inspired by the likes of Jacques …
