Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Poppy Stockell This revealing and detailed documentary charts the highs and lows of the stellar career of John Farnham, from his early success in 1967 with the cheesy novelty hit Sadie The Cleaning Lady, a song which haunted him for many years after, through to his spectacular comeback to… Continue Reading »
THE FABELMANS
The Fabelmans Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Mateo Zoryan, David Lynch, Oakes Fegley, Judd Hirsch, Jeannie Berlin, Sam Rechner, Julie Butters, Keeley Karsten, Sophia Kopera, Chloe East. The Fabelmans is Steven Spielberg’s poignant and deeply moving and revealing personal memoir about the people and… Continue Reading »
FALL
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Scott Mann Stars: Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mason Gooding. With its vertiginous camera work, the small budget thriller Fall is ultimately scarier and more terrifying than most recent horror movies. When the film opens Becky Connor (Grace Caroline Currey, from Shazam!, etc), her husband Dan (Mason Gooding) and… Continue Reading »
FLUX GOURMET
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Peter Strickland Stars: Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie, Fatma Mahomed, Ariane Labed, Makis Papadimitriou, Richard Bremmer. Food, sex and art are three of the key ingredients in the latest bizarre cinematic concoction from British director Peter Strickland, who is based in Hungary. This black comedy is an absurdist satire of the… Continue Reading »
FALLING FOR FIGARO
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ben Lewin, Hugh Skinner, Joanna Lumley, Gary Lewis, Shazad Latif. This enjoyable if somewhat formulaic romantic comedy comes from Australian filmmaker Ben Lewin, who gave us The Sessions with Helen Hunt and John Hawkes in 2012. Successful and ambitious fund manager Millie (Danielle Macdonald, who played an aspiring singer in… Continue Reading »
FULL TIME
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Eric Gravel Stars: Laura Calamy, Nolan Arizmendi, Sasah Lemaitre Cremaschi, Anne Suarez, Genevieve Mnich, Agatha Dronne, Mathilde Weil, Cyril Guei. Julie (Laura Calamy, from the comedy Antoinette In The Cevennes, etc) is a single mother who works as the head chambermaid in a prestigious five-star hotel in Paris. She lives… Continue Reading »