Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: David YatesStars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Subol, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Zoe Kravitz, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Ronan Raftery, Johnny Depp.With the lucrative Harry Potter franchise done and dusted, author J K Rowling has expanded on her Potterverse with this stand alone tale set some seven decades before the …
THE BOOK OF LIFE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jorge R Gutierrez Stars: voices of Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Kate Del Castillo, Ron Perlman, Christina Applegate, Danny Trejo, Hector Elizondo, Ice Cube, Placido Domingo. "What is it with Mexicans and death?"This is the sophomore animated film from Texas based animation studio Reel FX, who previously gave us Free Birds, about a couple of turkeys who travel back in …
DRIVE
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Nicholas Winding RefnStars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman.Maverick Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn makes tough, unflinchingly brutal and uncompromising dramas like his Pusher trilogy and the physically bruising Bronson. For his first American film, Refn has made a dark and downbeat hard boiled noir-like …
CONAN THE BARBARIAN
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Marcus NispelStars: Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang, Rachael Nichols, Morgan Freeman.Long before he was the Terminator, or even the governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger played the role of Conan the Cimmerian warrior first created by Robert E Howard in a series of fantasy novels in the 1930s. Schwarzenegger made the role his own in both Conan The Barbarian …
SEASON OF THE WITCH
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Dominic SenaStars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Christopher Lee, Robert Sheehan, Ulrich Thompson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Graham.Sneaking into cinemas without much fanfare is Season Of The Witch, a rather dull, disappointing and inherently silly sword and sorcery adventure set in 14th century Europe. This clunky $40 million production flopped at the US …
TANGLED
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirectors: Byron Howard, Nathan GrenoStars: voices of Zachary Levi, Mandy Moore, Donna Murphy, Brad Garrett, Richard Kiel, Ron Perlman, M C Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor.The fiftieth animated film from Disney is a winner in the same vein as classics like Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and The Little Mermaid. Written by Dan Fogelman (Cars, Bolt, etc) Tangled takes the …
