Category Archives: Comedy

ONE FOR THE MONEY

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Julie Anne Robinson Stars: Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara, Daniel Sunjata, John Leguizamo, Sherri Shepherd, Debbie Reynolds, Debra Monk, Nate Mooney, Adam Paul, Fisher Stevens, Patrick Fischler, Ana Reeder, Annie Parisse, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Leonardo Nam, Gavin-Keith Umeh, Louis Mustillo. The comic crime film One For The Money has been released [...]

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THIS MEANS WAR

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: McG Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Til Scwheiger, Chelsea Handler, Angela Bassett, Jenny Slate, Abigail Spencer. This is a moderately entertaining romantic comedy about two CIA spies who discover they are dating the same woman, and then use the full resources of the agency to spy on each [...]

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MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Simon Curtis Stars: Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Emma Watson, Zoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones, Dougray Scott, Derek Jacobi. Hollywood created a superstar, but fame was the steep price Marilyn Monroe had to pay for her image. There are lots of apocryphal stories concerning the behaviour [...]

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ANY QUESTIONS FOR BEN? Rob Sitch interview

by GREG KING. Any Questions For Ben? is the first feature film from the Working Dog team (The Castle, The Dish) in over a decade. As director Rob Sitch, who co-wrote the film with his usual collaborators Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner explains, other things just seemed to take priority. All of them have families [...]

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ANY QUESTIONS FOR BEN?

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rob Sitch Stars: Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor, Daniel Henshall, Christian Clark, Felicity Ward,Lachy Hulme, Rob Carlton, Tracy Mann, Alan Brough, David james, Ed Kavalee, Chantelle Raleigh, Liliya May, John Howard, Rob Sitch.   This  romantic comedy is the third feature film from the Working Dog team, and their first in [...]

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THE ARTIST

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michel Hazanavicius Stars: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Malcolm McDowell, Missi Pyle, Ed Lauter, Beth Grant, Joel Murray, Ken Davitian, Basil Hoffman. This black and white silent film about silent movies has become the darling of the current awards season – and it’s easy [...]

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A FEW BEST MEN

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Stephan Elliott Stars: Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Tim Draxl, Laura Brent, Olivia Newton-John, Rebel Wilson, Jonathan Biggins, Steve Le Marquand. In the early 70s Australian filmmakers gave the British public a taste of some uniquely Australian larrikin humour with films like The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie and Barry [...]

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YOUNG ADULT

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jason Reitman Stars: Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe, Jill Eikenberry, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Bekins, J K Simmons. Young Adult is a dark, bleak and uncomfortable comedy written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Juno, etc), who manages to create believable, flesh and blood but deeply [...]

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