TRAP Reviewed by GREG KING Director: M Night Shyamalan Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Hayley Mills, Jonathan Langdon, Saleka Shyamalan, Alison Pill, Kid Cudi, M Night Shyamalan, Marc Bacolol, Marnie McPhail. Trap is the latest film from M Night Shyamalan, and like so much of his oeuvre it is driven by an intriguing premise. But as with so many of his previous films it begins to lose momentum and …
THE KILLER
The Killer Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Fincher Stars: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, Gabriel Polanco, Kerry O'Malley. Written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en, etc) and based on Alexis Nolent’s graphic novel of the same name The Killer is a neo-noir thriller that eschews most of the usual tropes of the hitman/assassin genre and is …
MARLOWE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Neil Jordan Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Danny Huston, Jessica Lange, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Francois Arnaud, Daniela Melchoir. Philip Marlowe is the tough talking cynical private detective first created by author Raymond Chandler in 1939 in the novel The Big Sleep. Marlowe has since featured in many novels and has been portrayed …
NOVEMBER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Cedric Jimenez Stars: Jean Dujardin, Anais Demoustier, Sandrine Kiberlain, Lyna Khoudri, Saraj Afcahin, Jeremie Renier. A mix of fact and fiction this tense drama is set against the backdrop of the series of coordinated terrorist attacks that shook Paris in November 2015. 130 people were killed and over 400 injured in the attacks that targeted the Stade de France soccer …
CAIRO CONSPIRACY
CAIRO CONSPIRACY Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tarik Saleh Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Jawad Alkwil, Ahmed Laissoui, Medhi Debhi, Makram Khoury, Ramzi Choukair. Adam (Tawfeek Barhom, from The Rhythm Section, etc) is the son of a fisherman from the small rural village of Manzala. He earns a state sponsored scholarship to study at the prestigious Al Azhar University in Cairo, the internationally …
MISSING
Missing Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Will Merrick, Nicholas D Johnson Stars: Storm Reid, Nia Long, Ken Leung, Joaquim De Almeida, Tim Griffin, Daniel Henney, Amy Landecker, Megan Suri, Tracy Vilar. Not to be confused with the 1982 thriller of the same name that starred Jack Lemmon as a man desperately searching for his son in Chile following a military coup, Missing is a tense, engaging and elaborate …
