Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Thomas Vinterberg Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe, Maria Bonnevie, Helene Reingaard Neumann. The Danish drinking culture is put under the microscope in this new feature from director Thomas Vinterberg, an adherent of Lars Von Trier’s Dogma school of filmmaking. Mads Mikkelsen is reunited with Vinterberg, who directed him in The Hunt, the tense 2012 drama about a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of molesting one of his students. Here plays another teacher. Martin is a jaded and weary Continue reading
THE NEST
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sean Durkin Stars: Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Oona Roche, Charlie Shotwell, Michael Culkin, Adeel Akhtar, Wendy Crewson. The sophomore feature from writer/director Sean Durkin is a moody character piece about toxic obsession and a disturbing study of a dysfunctional marriage and a family falling apart. There are also some intensely personal elements to the drama as Durkin has drawn upon his own past to shape the film and its psychological insights. The film opens in America in the mid-80s, the Reagan era of materialism and Continue reading
EARWIG AND THE WITCH
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Goro Miyazaki Stars: voices of Taylor Henderson, Vanessa Marshall, Richard E Grant, Dan Stevens, Pandora Colin, Logan Hannan. This is the latest film from Japan’s famed animation Studio Ghibli, which has given us such fantasies as Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away. The studio is renowned for its colourful animation and wonderfully imaginative stories. Earwig And The Witch is the first fully 3D computer-generated animation from the studio, and it has been directed by Goro Miyazaki, the son of Studio Ghibli’s legendary Continue reading
WILD THINGS
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Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Sally Ingleton. The film’s subtitle A Year On The Frontline of Environmental Activism tells you all you need to know about this documentary from veteran award-winning filmmaker Sally Ingleton. This is the first feature documentary from Ingleton whose career spans some thirty years and whose documentaries explore social issues. Australia has a rich history of environmental activism that has preserved many numerous wilderness areas from development. Wild Things traces the history of environmental activism in Continue reading
WRONG TURN
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mike P Nelson Stars: Matthew Modine, Charlotte Vega, Bill Sage, Dylan McTee, Adain Bradley, Adrian Favela, Emma Dumont, Vardaan Arora, Daisy Head. This is an attempt to reboot the horror franchise that began in 2003 with Alan McElroy's gory film about a group of hapless victims who were stalked by monstrous mountain men. The film yielded five sequels of diminishing quality as it delved into more grotesque territory such as cannibalism and inbred rednecks and other depravities. Now McElroy himself helms this reboot of the Continue reading
