BRING HER BACK Reviewed by GREG KINGDirectors: Danny and Michael PilippouStars: Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Philips, Sally-Anne Upton. Adelaide filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou began their careers making short horror films for their You Tube channel. They broke through to feature films with their acclaimed, award-winning debut Talk To Me in 2022, which established them …
WONKA
WONKA Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Paul KingStars: Timothee Chalamet, Olivia Colman, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, Calah Lane, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Keegan-Michael Key, Jim Carter, Rakhee Thakar, Natasha Rothwell, Rich Fulcher, Sally Hawkins.Timothee Chalamet steps into the shoes of Willy Wonka, the master chocolatier created by author Roald Dahl in 1964 and previously played on …
THE LOST KING
The Lost King Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Stephen FrearsStars: Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Harry Lloyd, Mark Addy, Lee Inglesby.In 2012 amateur historian Phillipa Langley discovered the final resting place of famed fifteenth century monarch King Richard III under a carpark in the centre of Leicester. Most of what contemporary audiences know of Richard, the last of the Plantagenet dynasty, is based …
PADDINGTON 2
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Paul KingStars: voices of Ben Whishaw, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon; Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Tom Conti, Julie Walters, Ben Miller, Richard Ayoade, Joanna Lumley.Paddington, the marmalade loving bear from the wildest jungles of Peru who found a new home in the suburbs of …
MAUDIE
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Aisling WalshStars: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Gabrielle Rose, Zachary Bennett, Billy MacLennan, Lawrence Barry.Most biopics of artists depict them as troubled, flawed characters suffering for their art and dealing with their own obsessions and insecurities and personal demons. Maudie is no different as it gives us a touching portrait of Maude Lewis, who …
X + Y
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Morgan Matthews Stars: Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall, Eddie Marsan, Martin McCann, Jo Yang.This moving drama about an autistic teenage maths prodigy is something of a cross between A Beautiful Mind, The Big Bang Theory and an adolescent RainMan. The film itself has been based on director Morgan Matthews' own 2007 documentary Beautiful Young Minds, which looked at the …
