ASSASSIN'S PLAN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Keaton Stars: Michael Keaton, James Marsden, Marcia Gay Harden, Al Pacino, Ray McKinnon, Joanna Kulig, Suzy Nakamura, John Hoogenakker, Lela Loren. Michael Keaton both stars in and directs this slow burn crime drama about a contract hitman who is suffering from an incurable and rapidly developing case of dementia. This marks Keaton’s second effort …
BATMAN IN CONCERT – interview with SARAH-GRACE WILLIAMS
BATMAN IN CONCERT – interview with Sarah-Grace Williams by GREG KING To celebrate 85 years of the superhero Batman there are special screenings of Tim Burton’s 1989 movie that starred Michael Keaton in the title role and Jack Nicholson as the Joker, which will be accompanied by a live orchestral score. The orchestra is conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams who joined us on the program this morning to …
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THE FLASH
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Andy Muschietti Stars: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdu, Ben Affleck, Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot, Temuera Morrison, Kiersey Clemons. Once more into the multiverse we go. For a while the Marvel superhero movies have been exploring the fertile possibilities of the multiverse, which is full of potential if done right, as in …
THE FOUNDER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Le Hancock Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, B J Novak, Mike Pniewski. The Founder was inspired by the biography of Ray Kroc, the man who turned a small hamburger stand in San Bernardino California into McDonalds, a fast food empire spanning the globe, employing thousands, and reaping in billions of …
SPOTLIGHT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tom McCarthy Stars: Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d'Arcy James, Live Schreiber, John Slattery, Billy Crudup, Stanley Tucci, Paul Guilfoyle, Len Cariou, Jamey Sheridan, Neal Huff. All the bishops men? A powerful drama, Spotlight is based on the true story of the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize winning series of articles from 2002 exposing the sytematic …
MINIONS
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda Stars voices of: Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Jennifer Saunders, Geoffrey Rush. In the Despicable Me films, the minions were the cute, diminutive, yellow, denim-clad henchmen for the supervillain Gru (who was voiced by Steve Carell). They spoke in their own impenetrable and guttural language, and more …
