Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jun Kunimura, Miku Patricia Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi, Kazuya Tanabe. Joan Wick? This tough, visceral, violent and bloody action thriller with a high body count will certainly appeal to audiences who liked films such as the recent Nobody and the John …
GEMINI MAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ang Lee Stars: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, Douglas Hodge, Ralph Brown, Linda Emond, E J Bonilla, Ilia Volok. Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is an aging government assassin who has retired from the profession after 72 kills. He has become disenchanted with the profession and the agency for which he works, especially after he learns that his …
SWISS ARMY MAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Daniels Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Dano, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Weekend At Bernie's meets Castaway? In a cinema landscape shaped by an endless array of sequels, remakes and special effects driven comic book adaptations and superhero movies it is refreshing to come across something a little different, a little left of centre. Hank (Paul Dano, from There Will Be Blood, …
KILL THE MESSENGER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Cuesta Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie De Witt, Oliver Platt, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Andy Garcia, Richard Jenkins, Michael Sheen, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper. In the 1980s the Reagan administration waged a covert war on drugs. But it was a war that created some strange bedfellows. At the same time, the CIA was apparently helping drug …
THE THING
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ulrich Thomsen, Joel Edgerton, Eric Christian Olsen. It’s Aliens on ice! This is the third version of The Thing, and follows the 1951 Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby thriller, adapted from the novella Who Goes There? by John W Campbell, Jr, and which was laden with Cold War undertones, and more particularly John …
