Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jean-Marc Vallee Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Griffin Dunne. Matthew McConaughey continues the career renaissance that began with the courtroom drama The Lincoln Lawyer and continued with Killer Joe, The Paperboy and Mud, and a brief but telling appearance in Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street. And now… Continue Reading »
THE FIRST GRADER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Justin Chadwick Stars: Oliver Litondo, Naomie Harris, Alfred Munyua. Based on the true story of Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, The First Grader tells the moving story of an 84 year-old Kenyan farmer and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school. In 2003, the Kenyan government… Continue Reading »
TABLOID
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Errol Morris. Tabloid is the new film from veteran Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who has been making important films for thirty years. His previous insightful and revealing films include The Fog Of War, about Robert McNamara, who was one of the principal architects of the Vietnam War;… Continue Reading »
SOUL SURFER
Soul Surfer Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sean McNamara Stars: Annasophia Robb, Carrie Underwood, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid. From a young age, Bethany Hamilton (Annasophia Robb) had “salt water in her blood.” Born into a family of surfers, the teenager was a surfing prodigy destined for greatness until a shark attack left her with only… Continue Reading »
THE ROUND UP
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Roselyn Bosche Stars: Jean Reno, Hugo Leverdez, Melanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Udo Schenk. This powerful and deeply moving film depicts one of the most shocking and shameful episodes of French history. In the early hours of July 16, 1942 the French police, at the direction of the Nazis, rounded up… Continue Reading »
CONVICTION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tony Goldwyn Stars: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo, Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis, Peter Gallagher, Ari Graynor. Hilary Swank was obviously on the lookout for more Oscar bait when she chose Conviction as her next film project. Part courtroom drama, part prison film, Conviction is based on a true story… Continue Reading »