Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mira Nair Stars: Riz Ahmed, Live Schreiber, Keifer Sutherland, Kate Hudson, Om Puri, Martin Donovan, Nelsan Ellis, Imaad Shah, Chris Smith. Based on the 2007 novel written by Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a moody, contemporary political thriller that explores big themes in a world living under the spectre [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Steven Soderbergh Stars: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta Jones, Channing Tatum, Vinessa Shaw, Ann Dowd, Mamie Gummer, Peter Freidman. Sex, lies and pills? Steven Soderbergh is a prolific filmmaker who works in a diverse range of genres, and he moves easily between mainstream, big budget studio projects and smaller [...]
by GREG KING Swerve, the new film from writer/director Craig Lahiff (Heaven’s Burning, Black And White, etc), is the kind of pacy thriller and crowd pleasing genre piece that Australian filmmakers do not make enough of. There are lots of twists and turns in the formulaic plot that involves the usual tropes of the noir [...]
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: Heitor Dhalia Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Emily Wickersham, Sebastian Stan, Nick Searcy, Socratic Otto, Joel David Moore, Michael Pare, Sam Upton, Ted Rooney, Hunter Parrish, Susan Hess. Gone is an okay thriller that breathes some life into a familiar formula about the girl who cried [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Madden Stars: Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas, Ciaran Hinds, Jesper Christensen. The Debt is a solid remake of Israeli director Assaf Bernstein’s 2007 thriller Ha Hov, that initially screened in the Israeli Film Festival. This solid psychological thriller unfolds in two time frames. In [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Kaden Leos, James Biberi. Maverick Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn makes tough, unflinchingly brutal and uncompromising dramas like his Pusher trilogy and the physically bruising Bronson. For his first American film, Refn [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Singleton Stars: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Nyqvist, Elisabeth Rohm, Victor Slezak, Denzel Whitaker. Abduction is a big budget attempt to present hunky Twilight star Taylor Lautner as an action hero, a sort of high school Jason Bourne. While his legion [...]
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