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ALL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEWS WRITTEN BY GREG KING CUCKOO. A German/US co-production, this offbeat and strange drama is the sophomore feature for German born filmmaker Tilman Singer and follows his striking 2018 debut Luz. The film is vaguely disorienting. We meet Gretchen (played by Hunter Schafer, from the tv series Euphoria, etc), a surly 17-year-old American who reluctantly heads off to the Bavarian …
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CHALLENGERS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Luca Guaganigmo Stars: Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor. Italian filmmaker Luca Guaganigmo doesn’t repeat himself, but most of his films deal with connections. Whether it be the relationship between Elio and Oliver in the gay themed Call Me By Your Name, the various characters in the sundrenched setting of A Bigger Splash or even the teen cannibals on the …
COUP DE CHANCE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Woody Allen Stars: Lou de Laage, Melvin Poupard, Niels Schneider, Valerie Lemercier, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Gregory Gadebois. Although out of favour in the US, Woody Allen is still a revered filmmaker in France, and fittingly enough his fiftieth film as a filmmaker is actually set and shot in France. And, surprisingly enough, the dialogue is in French, …
CAT PERSON Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Susanna Fogel Stars: Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Fred Melamed, Christopher Shyer, Liza Koshy, Josh Andres Rivera, Isaac Cole Powell, Michael Gandolfini. Fatal attraction indeed. “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” This quirky psychological thriller …
Caravaggio's Shadow Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michele Placido Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert, Tedua, Brenno Placido, Michele Placido, Maurizio Donadoni, Micaela Romazzotti, Lolita Chammah, Gianfranco Gallo, Vinicio Marchioni, Alessandro Haber, Moni Ovadia. Caravaggio's Shadow, a lavish Italian/French co-production from actor turned director Michele Placido looks at the …
The Creator Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gareth Edwards Stars: John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Allison Janney, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Ralph Ineson, Michael Esper, Veronica Ngo, Marc Menchaca. Ever since HAL refused to open the bay door in Stanley Kubrick’s 1967 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey AI has been seen as the convenient villain in numerous Hollywood sci-fi …
THE POOL Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Ian Darling. Located on the edge of the famous Bondi Beach in Sydney, the Bondi Icebergs pool was established in 1929 and is steeped in history. It is estimated that …
GLADIATOR II Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Tim McInnerny, Derek Jacobi, Rory McCann, Matt Lucas, Yuval Gonen, Peter …
SATURDAY NIGHT Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jason Reitman Stars: Gabriel La Belle, Cory Michael Smith, Matt Wood, Dylan O'Brien, Willem Dafoe, J K Simmons, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Rachel Sennott, Ella Hunt, Emily Fairn, …
