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: 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 [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Luc Besson Stars: Michell Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse, Susan Woolridge, Benedict Wong. This is an earnest and reverent biopic about the courageous and inspirational Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winning head of the pro-democracy movement in Burma who spent nearly two decades under house arrest. [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi, Alexandre Steiger, Daniel Martin, Phillippe Torreten, Sylvie Testud. Rebellion is based on the real life hostage crisis that happened in Ouvea, an island off New Caledonia, in April 1988. It is the lead up to the general election in France, and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Daniel Auteuil Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sabine Azema, Emilie Cazanave. Prolific and popular French actor Daniel Auteuil makes his long awaited directorial debut with this handsome looking but old-fashioned and bucolic provincial period melodrama. The Well-Digger’s Daughter is a remake of Marcel Pagnol’s [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Terence Davies Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Barbara Jefford, Ann Mitchell, Harry Hadden-Paton. This old fashioned, downbeat and dreary drama is based on a play written by Terrence Rattigan, which was previously filmed by Anton Litvak in 1955, with a cast that included Vivien Leigh and Kenneth [...]
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