Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Jonathan GlazerStars: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston, Cameron Bright, Anne Heche.A haunting meditation on love, loss and grief, with supernatural undertones, Birth continues the eclectic range of roles that Nicole Kidman seems attracted to since her Oscar-winning turn in The Hours (Dogville, etc).Kidman plays Anna, a wealthy New York widow celebrating her …
BAISE MOI
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh ThiStars: Karen Bach, Raffaela AndersonTwo angry, man-hating young women embark on a cross country killing spree in this confronting new film best described as a Gallic version of Thelma And Louise, or even Natural Born Killers, albeit with heaps of attitude. This confronting film has been banned in some 23 countries, and has caused …
BLACK KNIGHT
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Gil JungerStars: Martin Lawrence, Kevin Conway, Tom WilkinsonThis unfunny and tedious variation on Mark Twain's classic tale A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court proves once and for all that the term "a Martin Lawrence comedy" is something of an oxymoron. (Okay, Big Momma's House, Bad Boys and Blue Streak were passably entertaining, but for the most part …
BEIJING BICYCLE
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Wang XiaoshuiStars: Cui Lin, Li Bin.The latest film from Columbia Tristar's Silk Screen collection, Beijing Bicycle is an occasionally funny but nonetheless acutely observed film which again explores how the individual triumphs over an often impersonal system. As Vittorio De Sica's classic humanist tale The Bicycle Thief became a metaphor for the chaos of post-war Italy, …
BEHIND ENEMY LINES
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: John MooreStars: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson.Behind Enemy Lines is just the first in a number of gung-ho, unswervingly patriotic, but rousingly exciting military-themed movies from Hollywood, set in some long forgotten war zones, that seem to have inadvertently tapped into the current international crisis as the war against terrorism wages.While war rages in central …
BEDAZZLED
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Harold RamisStars: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones, Paul Adelstein, Toby Huss, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Doyle-Murray.The old aphorism about being careful what you wish for is at the centre of this new comedy from Harold Ramis (Analyze This, etc). Working with co-writers Peter Tolan (Analyze This) and Larry Gelbart (creator of …