FUZE Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: David MackenzieStars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sam Worthington, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Saffron Hocking, Alexander Arnold, Honor Swinton Byrne, Luke Mably, Iain Fletcher, Samuel Oatley.A construction crew working in London uncover an unexploded WWII bomb. An army specialist bomb squad led by Major Will Tranter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is called in to defuse it. A …
CALLE MALAGA
CALLE MALAGA Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Maryam TouzaniStars: Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane, Maria Alfonsa Rosso, Ghali Errazqi, Miguel Garces,This is another bittersweet but charming and feel-good drama about an elderly woman asserting her independence and rediscovering her sexuality and love at a late stage of her life.Seventy-nine-year-old Maria Angeles (played by Carmen Maura) has …
MICHAEL
MICHAEL Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Antoine FuquaStars: Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Nia Long, Miles Teller, Larenz Tate, KeiLyn Durrell Jones, Mike Myers, Jamal R Henderson, Tre Horton, Rhyan Hill, Joseph David-Jones, Kendrick Sampson, Deon Cole.Michael Jackson was, arguably, the biggest and most influential music star of the 80s, with hit albums like 1984’s multi-Grammy award winning Thriller …
I SWEAR
I SWEAR Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Kirk JonesStars: Robert Aramayo, Shirley Henderson, Maxine Peake, Peter Mullan, Scott Ellis Watson, Steven Cree, David Carlyle, Francesco Piacentini-Smith.This inspiring and enjoyable but bittersweet Scottish biopic is based on the story of John Davidson, a young boy you developed Tourette Syndrome as a teenager in the 1980s and later became an activist …
THE STRANGER
THE STRANGER Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Francois OzonStars: Benjamin Voison, Pierre Lottin, Rebecca Marder, Denis Lavant, Hajan Bouzaouit, Abderrahmana Dekhani, Swann Arlaud.Faithfully adapted from the 1942 novella written by Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus, The Stranger is an existential crime drama set in Algiers in 1938. At that time Algiers was a favoured destination for Europeans as it …
WOLFRAM – Interview with WARWICK THORNTON
WOLFRAM - interview with WARWICK THORNTONby GREG KINGWolfram is the latest film from award winning indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton. It stars Thomas Wright, Deborah Mailman, Joe Bird, Matt Nable, Pedrea Jackson. The film is set in the Hatches Creek wolfram mining field in the Northern territory and it explores how aboriginal children were exploited for their labour and mistreated. The film also …
