Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gary McKendry Stars: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Yvonne Strahovski, Ben Mendelsohn, Adewale Akinnuaye-Aghaje, David Whiteley, Lachy Hulme, Firass Dirani, Nick Tate, Matthew Nable, Billie Brown, Grant Bowler, Michael Dorman. This formulaic but exciting action thriller is not a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Troy Nixey Stars: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson, Julia Blake, Garry McDonald, Alan Dale, Nicholas Bell. Shot in Melbourne in 2009, this is a remake of a 1973 horror film about a couple who move into a big old house that is occupied by malevolent creatures. That [...]
by GREG KING. “There is something lush about the surface of a Bertolucci film. I think he is the perfect synthesis of style and content really,” enthuses ACMI curator Roberta Ciabarra. Ciabarra is overseeing the forthcoming special retrospective season on the noted Italian director, whose career has spanned fifty years. “He is remarkably vital and [...]
by GREG KING After a morning of interviews and media calls, screen funnyman Steve Carell still looks relaxed and comfortable fielding questions in a plush hotel suite that has been decked out like a recording studio with lights, cameras and microphones. Carell was in town to promote his latest film, the darker edged romantic comedy [...]
by GREG KING The 12th Lavazza Italian Film Festival commences in Melbourne on September 14. To find out more about this year’s festival, I spoke to the director of the festival Elysia Zeccola Hill, who actually oversees all the film festivals at Palace Cinemas. Her job is to facilitate all of the foreign language film [...]
by GREG KING Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the Melbourne International Film Festival runs from July 21 until August 7, and screens at Greater Union, Kino, ACMI and Forum cinemas. With 329 films screening (115 shorts and 214 features), a plethora of special events and a program dedicated to looking back over the 60 year history [...]
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