Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Valerie Donzelli Cast: Valerie Donzelli, Jeremie Elkaim, Gabriel Elkaim, César Desseix, Michele Moretti, Beatrice de Stael. Despite the title, Declaration Of War is not a war movie. Rather this film, which opened the recent French Film Festival in Melbourne, is a heartfelt and deeply personal story about a young couple [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Stern Hosted by Ira Glass. Radio with pictures? This American Life is a popular radio show broadcast on WBEZ in Chicago that reaches millions of listeners every week around the world. This American Life is hosted by Ira Glass, who has been presenting the show since it first aired [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Adrian Grunberg Stars: Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Peter Stormare, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Dolores Heredia, Bob Gunton, Peter Gerety, Patrick Bauchau, Dean Norris. Get The Gringo is an unusual and violent prison drama that marks a return to form of sorts for Mel Gibson as the flawed action hero. Most of [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jermaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma Thompson, Bill Hader, David Rasche, Alice Eve, Mike Colter, Nicole Scherzinger, Rick Baker. By the time most franchises reach the third film in the series, they have grown tired and lazy, and merely seem to [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Njuri Bilge Ceylan Stars: Taner Birsel, Muhammet Uzuner, Firat Tanis, Ahmet Mumtaz, Taylan, Ercan Kesal, Murat Kilic, Safak Karali, Emre Sen, Nihan Okutcu. This slow paced police procedural about an investigation into a murder will not appeal to fans of gritty tv shows like C.S.I., et al, with their graphic [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod Stars: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci, Colm Meaney, Phlip Glenister. A beautiful looking but rather prosaic adaptation of the classic 1885 French novel by Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami is a powerful tale about sexual intrigue, ambition, scandal and manipulation and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: James Watkins Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Roger Allam, Shaun Dooley. This Gothic supernatural thriller is dull and singularly lacking in decent scares, especially when compared to director James Watkins’ previous film Eden Lake, a contemporary horror film ensconced in the torture porn genre, and which starred Michael [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Duigan Stars: Nammi Le, Peter O’Brien, Andrew Hazzard, Ivay Mak, David Field, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Eamon Farren, Simon Garratt, John Duigan. This is Australian writer/director John Duigan’s first film in nearly a decade, and is his first Australian-made film since 1993’s Sirens. Duigan is the director behind modern Australian classics [...]
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