BOOKWORM Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ant Timpson Stars: Nell Fisher, Elijah Wood, Michael Smiley, Vanessa Stacey, Morgan O'Reilly. Bookworm is the sophomore directorial feature from New Zealand filmmaker Ant Timpson, who is better known as a writer and producer on a number of weird and often gory horror film such as The Greasy Strangler and The ABCs Of Death, etc. Bookworm is more of a family friendly …
LONGLEGS
LONGLEGS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Osgood Perkins Stars: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka. This disturbing thriller about a female FBI agent on the trail of a creepy serial killer has been compared by many critics to the Oscar winning classic The Silence Of The Lambs. But for me it is a little derivative and not in the …
TWISTERS
TWISTERS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Lee Isaac Chung Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney, David Corenswet, Harry Hadden-Patton, Sasha Lane, Katy O’Brian, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, Tunde Adebimpe, James Paxton. In 1996 filmmaker Jan De Bont and writer Michael Crichton gave audiences a thrill ride with the blockbuster disaster film …
SIDONIE IN JAPAN
SIDONIE IN JAPAN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Elise Girard Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Tsuyoshi Ihara, August Diehl. Sidonie Perceval (played by iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert) is a widowed author, who has not written anything since the death of her husband Antoine and has instead been living a reclusive lifestyle. She is drawn out of her isolation when she travels to Japan for a book tour to …
THE BIKERIDERS
THE BIKERIDERS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jeff Nichols Stars: Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Norman Reedus, Toby Wallace, Damon Herriman, Boyd Holbrook. In the 60s and early 70s, the biker exploitation movie was a popular subgenre of its own. Many of them were produced by the independent American International Pictures. That period yielded dozens of biker films like Angels As …
SUNFLOWER
SUNFLOWER Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gabriel Carrubba Stars: Liam Mollica, Luke J Morgan, Daniel Halmarick, Sal Galofaro, Elias Anton. As with Of An Age, last year’s opening film at MIFF, Sunflower is a locally produced gay coming of age drama and love story that has a deep personal resonance for its director and is informed by his own experiences. After a couple of short films …