Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jonathan Levine Stars: Joseph Gordon Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Michael Shannon, Lizzy Caplan, Mindy Kaling, Jillian Bell, Helen Yorke, Ilana Glazer, Aaron Hill, Tracy Morgan, James Franco, Miley Cyrus, Lorraine Toussant, Randall Park. The Night Before is not your typical feel good Christmas Eve fable. Rather this R-rated comedy… Continue Reading »
PALO ALTO
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gia Coppola Stars: Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, James Franco, Zoe Levin, Val Kilmer, Talia Shire, Olivia Crocicchia, Colleen Camp, Claudia Levy, Don Novello, Chris Messina. The Coppolas are obviously an extremely talented family, with three generations of Oscar winners, and a younger generation of emerging filmmakers leaving their… Continue Reading »
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rupert Wyatt Stars: James Franco, John Lithgow, David Oyelowe, Andy Serkis, Tom Felton, Freida Pinto, Brian Cox. “Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!” Charlton Heston’s memorable line from Franklin J Schaffner’s original sci-fi adventure/allegorical tale about a group of astronauts who crash land on a planet… Continue Reading »
YOUR HIGHNESS
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Gordon Green Stars: James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Charles Dance, Damian Lewis, Toby Jones. If Judd Apatow had made The Princess Bride, then chances are if would have ended up resembling Your Highness. Your Highness is not a parody of the cliches of the… Continue Reading »
HOWL
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Freidman Stars: James Franco, David Strathairn, Mary Louise-Parker, Treat Williams, Jeff Daniels, Jon Hamm, Bob Balaban. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Allen Ginsberg was one of the most famous and revered poets of the 20th century, and one of the most… Continue Reading »
127 HOURS
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Danny Boyle Stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara. Danny Boyle’s first film since the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire marks something of a change of direction for the dynamic British director who first burst onto the scene in 1994 with Shallow Grave. 127 Hours tells the true story of Aron… Continue Reading »