By GREG KING The edgy, tense and suspenseful thriller Wish You Were Here is an impressive debut feature from Kieran Darcy-Smith, a Sydney-based actor and short filmmaker who is part of the filmmaking collective known as Blue Tongue, which includes siblings Nash and Joel Edgerton. Their films include David Michod’s award winning Animal Kingdom and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Scott Hicks Stars: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner, Jay R Ferguson, Riley Thomas Stewart, Adam Lefevre. Former pharmaceutical salesman Nicholas Sparks writes schmaltzy romantic novels about loss, love and renewal that are perfect fodder for the screen. The Notebook is probably the best adaptation of one of his sappy [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Emilio Estevez Stars: Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen, James Nesbitt, Emilio Estevez, Tcheky Karyo, Matt Clark, Spencer Garrett. “You don’t choose a life; you live one.” This moving, life affirming and uplifting story is something of a deeply personal project for writer/director Emilio Estevez. This is his [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rob Heydon Stars: Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Stephen McHattie, Carlo Rota. Love and other drugs? A poor man’s Trainspotting? Based on the novella Three Tales Of Chemical Romance from Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy could be considered a follow up of sorts to the 1996 cult classic Trainspotting as it [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith Stars: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, Teresa Palmer, Antony Starr. The edgy, tense and suspenseful thriller Wish You Were Here is another fine film from the film making collective known as Blue Tongue, which includes siblings Nash and Joel Edgerton. Their films include David Michod’s award winning Animal Kingdom [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joseph Cedar Stars: Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf, Alma Zack, Aliza Rosen, Micah Lewensohn. With Footnote New York-born Israeli writer/director Joseph Cedar has created an intellectual comedy that will prove to be something of an acquired taste for discerning audiences. The film’s exploration of Talmudic scholarship, the poisonous [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jean-Marc Vallee Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Helene Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier, Alice Dubois. Fresh from its screenings at the recent French Film Festival here in Australia, the beguiling drama Café De Flore receives a limited commercial release. Spanning two different time frames forty years apart, Café De Flore [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini Stars: Falk Hentschel, Sofia Boutella, George Sampson, Tom Conti, Stephanie Nguyen, Delphine Nguyen, Elisabetta Di Carlo, Ali Ramdani, Kaito Masai, . This is a cliched and unnecessary sequel to 2010’s Streetdance, which, inexplicably, proved to be a huge success at the box office. In the [...]
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