Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Goran Stolevski Stars: Elias Anton, Thom Green, Hattie Hook. The opening night film of the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2022 was Of An Age, a queer themed drama and coming of age tale that seems to draw inspiration from the likes of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset and the classic Brief Encounter. The film is set in 1999 and centres around Nikola (Elias Anton, from the miniseries Barracuda, etc), a 17-year-old of Serbian descent. He has recently graduated from high school. He is supposed to be performing …
INNER WEST FILM FESTIVAL – interview with GREGORY DOLGOPOLOV
by GREG KING INNER WEST FILM FESTIVAL – interview with GREGORY DOLGOPOLOV In one of The Inner West’s most unifying and collective moments yet, this pulsating slice of urban Sydney will now play host to its very own film festival, with The Inner West Film Fest rolling out for the very first time from 31 March through to 2 April. Across venues including the legendary Marrickville Golf Club, Dendy Cinemas Newtown, and Palace Norton Street in Leichhardt, The Inner West Film Fest will tap into the values of the area and boast a diverse, inclusive and utterly fascinating …
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JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4
Reviewed by GREG KING Stars: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Ian McShane, Bill Skarsgard, Shamier Anderson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Laurence Fishburne, Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Clancy Brown, Natalia Tena, Aimee Kwan. Keanu Reeves returns as the taciturn, virtually indestructible lone wolf assassin John Wick in this fourth installment in the successful franchise that has continually raised the bar in terms of staging kinetic action sequences. The 2014 original boasted some of the best stunt choreography and kinetic action sequences from a …
THE LONELY SPIRITS VARIETY HOUR – interview with PLATON THEODORIS
by GREG KING Interview with PLATON THEODORIS When verbose radio host Neville Umbrellaman lands in hospital, a group of unexpected performers crash his show The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour. The quirky low budget independent Australian feature The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour. The film is adapted from Nitin Vengurlekar’s theatre show The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour, and has achieved success with critics. Audiences around the country will get an opportunity to see the film and hear from director Platon Theodoris and the star and writer of the film Nitin …
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CHAMPIONS
Champions 2023 Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Bobby Farrelly Stars: Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Cheech Marin, Ernie Hudson, Matt Cook, Kevin Iannucci, Joshua Felder, Madison Tevlin, James Day Keith, Bradley Edens, Ashton Gunning, Matthew Von Der Ahe, Tom Sinclair, Alex Hintz, Casey Metcalfe, Barbara Pollard, Alexandra Castillo. Marcus Marakovich (Woody Harrelson) is an assistant minor league basketball coach who hopes to make it to the NBA. He is a bit of a hot head who often argues with the head coach over tactics and strategies, which has seen him unable …
TILL
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Chinonye Chukwu Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Haley Bennett, Whoopi Goldberg, Frankie Faison, Jalyn Hall, Sean Patrick Thomas, Tosin Cole, John Douglas Thompson Based on a true story, Till is a film full of pain, grief, anger, and it is a powerful howl of outrage against a blatant miscarriage of justice that has never been rectified. In 1955 14-year-old Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall, from tv series All American, etc) was holidaying with his cousins in Mississippi. A native of Chicago Emmett was an outgoing, high spirited, …
EMPIRE OF LIGHT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sam Mendes Stars: Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Tanya Moodie, Tom Brooke, Hannah Oslow. The latest film from Oscar winning director Sam Mendes (Skyfall, 1917, etc) is something of a love letter to the cinema and the effect of films on our lives. But it is something of a tepid love letter when compared to films like the glorious Cinema Paradiso and the like. The film is set in the dreary coastal town of Margate, which has seen better years, and most of the drama centres around the art deco Empire …
CREED III
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael B Jordan Stars: Michael B Jordan, Jonathan Majors, Tessa Thompson, Mila Davis-Kent, Jose Benavidez, Florian Munteaunu, Phylicia Rashad, Thaddeus James Mixson jr, Spence Moore II, Wood Harris. The third film in a popular series tends to be a bit of a mixed bag quality wise – for every Rocky III and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade there are half a dozen The Godfather Part 3s. And that is the problem with this third film in the Creed series, which itself is a spinoff from the Oscar winning 1976 film Rocky which starred …