Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Neil Marshall Stars: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Daniel Dae Kim, Sasha Lane, Thomas Haden Church, Sophie Okonedo, Mark Stanley, Brian Gleeson, Stephen Graham. This is a messy, gory and visually ugly reboot of Hellboy, the graphic novel character originally brought to the screen by Guillermo del Toro in 2004. Here David Harbour (from the tv series Stranger Things, etc) steps into the role of the half demon/half human paranormal vigilante and defender against the forces of darkness played previously by Ron Perlman, Continue reading
BREAKING HABITS
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Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Robert Ryan. This documentary follows Sister Kate, the founder of the Sister of the Valley, an unorthodox order of nuns who grow and sell marijuana and medicinal cannabis. Sister Kate is not a real nun. She was formerly Christine Meeusen, who was once a corporate consultant whose job took her around the world. Then her bigamist conman husband left the family, taking all the money with him, leaving her to raise their three children. She reinvented herself as Sister Kate, a self-styled “anarchist, activist nun”, and Continue reading
BURNING
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Lee Chang-dong Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jun Jong-seo. South Korea’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Oscars and winner of the FIPRESCI critics’ prize at Cannes, Burning is a visually gorgeous but enigmatic and somewhat dull psychological thriller that will leave many wondering in the audience what the fuss is all about. Introverted aspiring writer Lee Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in, from Six Flying Dragons, etc) is an affable young man from a rural farming community who has recently graduated from Continue reading
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sara Colangelo Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael Garcia Bernal, Parker Sevak, Michael Chernus, Rosa Salazar. Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a forty-year old dedicated, and compassionate kindergarten teacher in Staten Island. But she seems stuck in a sort of midlife crisis. Her homelife is rather dull, and to try and add some spark she has enrolled in an adult poetry writing class in New York, run by the handsome Simon (Gael Garcia Bernal). But he is initially dismissive of her work, calling it derivative. Then one day she Continue reading
MID90S
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jonah Hill Stars: Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, Gio Galicia, Olan Prenatt, Na-kel Smith, Ryder McLaughlin. Actor Jonah Hill makes his directorial debut with this low budget, nostalgic, semi-autobiographical coming of age tale set against the backdrop of LA’s skateboarding community. Mid90s is loosely based on Hill’s own experiences in the California skateboard scene. It has the same authenticity, rawness and honesty that marked Larry Clarke’s controversial Kids, which was shot during the mid 90s. Hill has shot Continue reading
