Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Luc BessonStars: Dane De Haan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Herbie Hancock, Rutger Hauer, Louis Leterrier, Olivier Megaton, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Kris Wu, Sam Spruell, Alain Chabat, voices of Elizabeth Debicki, John Goodman.Twenty years after he gave us The Fifth Element, director Luc Besson returns to the futuristic sci-fi genre with this flawed …
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Jason EisenerStars: Rutger Hauer, Jason Bateman, Brian Downey, Gregory Smith, Molly Dunsworth.Like Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, Hobo With A Shotgun actually began life as one of the fake trailers in the Grindhouse experience. The title basically says all you need to know about this extra-violent take on the vigilante genre.Rutger Hauer (from Blade Runner, etc) plays …
THE RITE
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Mikael HafstromStars: Anthony Hopkins, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones, Colin O'Donoghue, Marta Gastini, Alice Braga, Rutger Hauer.Hannibal Lecter does exorcisms?Even though it is nearly forty years old, William Friedkin’s 1973 frightfest The Exorcist is still the benchmark by which all other films about demonic possession will be judged. And so it is with the lacklustre …