Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gary Ross Stars: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Rihanna, Awkwafina, Minday Kaling, James Corden, Richard Armitage, Elliott Gould, Griffin Dunne, Dakota Fanning, Richard Robichaux, Marlo Thomas, Dana Ivey, Elizabeth Ashley. Last year we had the all-female remake/reboot of the 80s cult comedy Ghostbusters, which opened to lacklustre reviews and box office returns. And now we get this all-female reboot of the comic crime caper Ocean’s Eleven. Continue reading
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Peter Jackson Stars" Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Luke Evans, Evangeline Lilly, Ian McKellen, Lee Pace, Orlando Bloom, James Nesbitt, Billy Connolly, Aidan Turner, Ryan Gage, John Bell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Graham McTavish, Ken Stott, Dean O'Gorman, Stephen Fry, Ian Holm, Manu Bennett. While The Hobbit may not quite match The Lord Of The Rings trilogy for its epic sense of grandeur and action, at least here Peter Jackson brings the trilogy to a satisfying conclusion. This epic film Continue reading
INTO THE STORM
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Steven Quale Stars: Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callie, Matt Walsh, Jeremy Sumpter, Max Deacon, Nathan Kress, Alycia Debnam Carey, Arlen Escarpata, Lee Whitaker, Jon Reep, Scott Lawrence, David Drumm, Kyle Davis. The more cynically inclined will quickly dismiss this as Twister 2 with a largely no-name cast and employing the found footage aesthetic. But Into The Storm is steeped in the tradition of those classic disaster movies like Earthquake and The Towering Inferno, etc, and it even draws upon the established template of the genre Continue reading
