Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ben Affleck Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Victor Garber, Chris Messina, Clea Duvall, Scoot McNairy, Bob Gunton, Philip Baker Hall, Kyle Chandler, Tate Donovan, Rory Cochrane, Zeljko Ivanek, Titus Welliver,Richard Kind, Richard Dillane. As an actor Ben Affleck has made a few dud choice like Gigli, [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Asghar Farhadi Stars: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi, Babek Karimi. This searing drama from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (About Elly, which screened at MIFF 2010, etc) deservedly won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The film begins deceptively simply, with a middle class couple approaching [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jafar Panahi Documentary. This Is Not A Film is a faux day-in-the-life documentary from Iranian director Jafar Panahi, and was created as a response to the 20-year ban imposed on him by the fundamentalist regime that rules Iran. Panahi is a serious filmmaker whose films have been branded seditious by [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, Mozhen Marno, Navid Negahban, Parviz Sayyad. This is a powerful and moving drama, based on a on the non-fiction book written by French Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, which brought the barbaric practice of stoning women for adultery to the attention of the west. [...]
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