JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Todd Phillips Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Steve Coogan, Zazie Beetz, Leigh Gill, Harry Lawtry, Bill Smitrovich, Jacob Lofland, Ken Leung. Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for his complex and nuanced performance as the damaged Arthur Fleck (aka Joker) in Todd Phillips’ 2019 drama Joker, which transcended the usual …
DESPICABLE ME 4
DESPICABLE ME 4 Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage Stars: voices of Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Sofia Vergara, Steve Coogan, Stephen Colbert, Joey King, Pierre Coffin, Chloe Fineman, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Madison Polan. The Despicable Me series, created by French filmmaker Pierre Coffin, has developed and expanded over the past 14 years, and the franchise …
THE LOST KING
The Lost King Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Stephen Frears Stars: 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 …
HOLMES & WATSON
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Etan Cohen Stars: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Kelly Macdonald, Pam Ferris, Ralph Fiennes, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Hugh Laurie, Noah Jupe, Lauren Lapkus, Michael Culkin. My list of the worst films of 2018 has just had a late addition with Holmes & Watson, an execrable and terribly unfunny piece of nonsense that will have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spinning in …
IDEAL HOME
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Andrew Fleming Stars: Steve Coogan, Paul Rudd, Jack Gore, Alison Pill, Jake McDorman. Santa Fe is the home for Erasmus Brumble (Steve Coogan, from The Trip series of films, etc), a celebrity chef who hosts his own cable television cooking show, and Paul (Paul Rudd, from Ant-Man, etc), his producer and live in lover. They have been a couple for ten years, but now they spend …
DESPICABLE ME 3
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Kyle Balda, Eric Guillon, Pierre Coffin Stars: voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Nev Scharrel, Jenny Slate, Steve Coogan, Pierre Coffin, Julie Andrews, Andy Nyman, Michael Beattie. With the successful Despicable Me franchise, Illumination Studios, the new kids on the block, have rivalled animation giants Pixar and Dreamworks …