Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Dean Israelite Stars: Jonny Weston, Sofia Black d’Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Virginia Gardner, Amy Landecker, Gary Weeks, Gary Grubbs. This sci-fi teen drama involving time travel is like Back To The Future for the Twitter generation. David Raskin (Jonny Weston) is something of a science geek who has inherited… Continue Reading »
THE INFINITE MAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Hugh Sullivan Stars: Josh McConville, Hannah Marshall, Alex Dimitriades. This is the second local production in as many months to feature time travel as a key narrative device. And I found the quirky The Infinite Man to be far more entertaining and enjoyable than the recent sci-fi head turning Predestination,… Continue Reading »
PREDESTINATION
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Michael and Peter Spierig Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Christopher Kirby. I came, I watched, I left scratching my head. Predestination is a mind bending time travel sci-fi drama that raises a lot of questions but struggles to provide adequate answers. It’s one of those puzzling and complex… Continue Reading »
PREDESTINATION – interview with Michael and Peter Spierig
by GREG KING The opening night film at MIFF 2014 was Predestination, a mind-scratching sci-fi thriller that plays around with the conventions and paradoxes of time travel. It is based on a short story written by Robert Heinlein, and stars Ethan Hawke as a “temporal agent” on one final mission, and Sarah Snook in a… Continue Reading »
SOURCE CODE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Duncan Jones Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright. Source Code is the sophomore film from Duncan Jones, the son of rock star David Bowie, and is a wonderful follow-up to his debut feature, the intriguing low budget sci-fi film Moon, which was a study of paranoia, isolation,… Continue Reading »
THE TIME MACHINE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Simon Wells, Gore Verbinski (uncredited) Stars: Guy Pearce, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba. Like the recent “re-imaginings” of classic films Planet Of The Apes and Get Carter, this updated version of The Time Machine is a completely unnecessary remake that adds little, and ultimately fails to improve on the… Continue Reading »
