BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Morris Stars: Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Casper Knopf, Mila Jankovic, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Isla Fisher, Jim Broadbent, Shirley Henderson, Celia Imrie, James Callis, Gemma Jones, Sally Phillips, Jeff Mirza. I was not expecting much from this fourth instalment in the Bridget Jones series which has …
JUDY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rupert Goold Stars: Renee Zellweger, Rufus Sewell, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Michael Gambon, Andy Nyman, Gemma-Leah Devereaux, Richard Cordery, Fenella Woolgar, Darci Shaw. It’s been fifty years since Judy Garland, the tragic self-destructive artist and former child star, died in 1969 at the age of 47 from an overdose of barbiturates. Rather than a conventional …
BRIDGET JONES’S BABY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sharon Maguire Stars: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Emma Thompson, Sarah Solemani, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Shirley Henderson, Neil Pearson, Sally Phillips, Patrick Malahide, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ed Sheeran, Enzo Cilenti, Celia Imrie. In 1995 author Helen Fielding created the character of Bridget Jones, a thirty something single professional woman living in …
ONE TRUE THING
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Carl Franklin Stars: Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Nicky Katt, Gerrit Graham, Mary Catherine Wright, Hallee Hirsh, Patrick Breen. Adapted from Anna Quindlen's acclaimed novel, One True Thing is the latest film in the terminal disease cum moving women's melodrama genre (Stepmom, Beaches, etc). It's sure to have sensitive …
