PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg Stars: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin McNally, Golshifteh Farahani, David Wenham, Bruce Spence, Stephen Graham, Martin Klebba, Adam Brown, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Paul McCartney. Pirates just want to have fun! This is the fifth instalment in the successful film franchise originally based on the Pirates Of The Caribbean theme ride at Disneyland, and the series has so far grossed over $3.7 billion at the box office, making it one of the Continue reading

KON TIKI

Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg Stars: Pal S Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Gustaf Skarsgard, Agnes Kittelsen. This epic film is a dramatisation of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 1948 journey in which he set sail across the Pacific Ocean, travelling some 4300 miles on a balsa wood raft to prove his theory that Polynesia was originally settled by people from South America rather than Asia. Heyerdahl also filmed the epic voyage which he turned into a documentary Continue reading