THE RETURN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Uberto Pasolini Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Angela Molina, Claudio Santamaria, Tom Rhys Harries, Amir Wilson, Ayman Al Aboud, Francesco Bianchi, Nicolas Retrivi, Bruno Cassandra, Cosimo Desii. Uberto Pasolini’s The Return takes one of the final chapters in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey and gives it a fresh perspective. …
CONCLAVE
CONCLAVE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Edward Berger Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Sergio Castelitto, Carlos Diehz, Isabella Rossellini. The Pope is dead. The process begins for the election of a new Pope to lead the Catholic Church. These are dangerous and troubled times and religion seems to lack the power it once held. The church needs stable guidance and …
THE MENU
The Menu Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mark Mylod Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult, Anya Taylor-Joy, Hong Chau, Judith Light, Janet McTeer, Reed Birney, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero, Paul Adelstein, Rob Yang, Mark St Cyr, Arturo Castro, Rebecca Koon, Adam Aalderks, Matthew Cornwell. There have been a lot of foodie films, but none as darkly funny or as unsettling as this offbeat, edgy and absurdist …
THE KING’S MAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Matthew Vaughn Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Charles Dance, Tom Hollander, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew Goode, Daniel Bruhl, Alexandra Maria Lara, Valerie Pachner, Todd Boyce, August Diehl, Ian Kelly, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Matthew Vaughn gleefully rewrites the history of WWI with this totally bonkers and tonally uneven spy caper that is a …
HOLMES & WATSON
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Etan Cohen Stars: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Kelly Macdonald, Pam Ferris, Ralph Fiennes, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Hugh Laurie, Noah Jupe, Lauren Lapkus, Michael Culkin. My list of the worst films of 2018 has just had a late addition with Holmes & Watson, an execrable and terribly unfunny piece of nonsense that will have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spinning in …
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Travis Knight Stars: voices of Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara, Brenda Vaccaro, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. This stop motion animated action adventure comes from Laika Studios, and maintains the high standards established by their previous works like Coraline and Paranorman. Set in a mythical Japan during the era of the …
