Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Zal Batmanglij Stars: Brit Marling, Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Davenia McFadden, James Urbaniak, Richard Wharton, Kandice Stroh, Alvin Lam, Constance Wu, Avery Pohl. It’s a coincidence that this low budget science fiction film about the inner workings of a mysterious [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jake Schreier Stars: Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Jake Strong, Jeremy Sisto. An award winner at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, this charming comedy from first time writer Christopher Ford and debutant director Jake Schreier is a wonderful and original take on the familiar odd [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Colin Trevorrow Stars: Mark Duplass, Jake M Johnson, Aubrey Plaza, Karan Soni, Jenica Bergere, Lynn Shelton, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jeff Garlin, Kristen Bell. The first feature film from director Colin Trevorrow, Safety Not Guaranteed is a quirky low budget comedy that takes its inspiration from an advertisement that was placed [...]
By GREG KING The edgy, tense and suspenseful thriller Wish You Were Here is an impressive debut feature from Kieran Darcy-Smith, a Sydney-based actor and short filmmaker who is part of the filmmaking collective known as Blue Tongue, which includes siblings Nash and Joel Edgerton. Their films include David Michod’s award winning Animal Kingdom and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jesse Peretz Stars: Paul Rudd, Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Steve Coogan, Rashids Jones, Kathryn Hahn, T J Miller, Shirley Knight, Hugh Dancy, Adam Scott, Sterling K Brown, Matthew Mindler. The rather politically incorrectly titled Our Idiot Brother is a mildly amusing and quirky character driven comedy about a [...]
by GREG KING “There are no virgins in this movie!” says Pollyanna McIntosh, when talking about the controversial new horror film The Woman. The Woman is a tough, confronting yet engrossing horror film that eschews the usual formula of serial killers, lots of blood and gore, and screaming virgins running and dying. The film actually [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Directors: Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost. This low budget, fly on the wall documentary is the antithesis of David Fincher’s award winning drama The Social Network, which chronicled the origins of social networking site Facebook. This fascinating and thought provoking cinema verite-style documentary looks at the consequences and pitfalls of [...]
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