PURE SCUM – interview with GIDEON ARONIBy GREG KINGPure Scum is a gritty low budget drama shot guerilla style, and at nights, on the streets of Melbourne. It follows Ayden and Jesse, two recent high school graduates, on a night fuelled by drugs and alcohol. After they are involved in a hit and run accident, the pair flee the scene, they make a number of bad decisions which leads them into the darker …
GOOD FORTUNE
GOOD FORTUNE Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Aziz AnsariStars: Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sherry Cola, Kristen Henley, Erik Estrada Loaiza.This amiable comedy from writer/director and star Aziz Ansari comes across like a Trading Places for the new millennium. Former stand-up comic Ansari (from tv series Parks And Recreation, etc) makes his …
GRAND MAISON PARIS
GRAND MAISON PARIS Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Ayuko TsukaharaStars: Takuya Kimura, Kyoka Suzuki, Ok Taec-yeon, Yuta Tamamori, Kanichiro, Ayako Yoshitani, Anne Nakamura, Patrick Descamps, Yannick Renier, Ai Tominaga, Yoshinori Masakado, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Ikki Sawamura. Reality tv cooking shows and dramas such as The Bear have made kitchens, chefs and food preparation both exciting and sexy, and …
GLADIATOR II
GLADIATOR II Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Ridley ScottStars: Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Tim McInnerny, Derek Jacobi, Rory McCann, Matt Lucas, Yuval Gonen, Peter Mensah. Gladiator was a great movie, and even though it entertained us it didn’t really need a sequel. But here we are, 24 years later with Gladiator II. Written by David …
GREEDY PEOPLE
GREEDY PEOPLE Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Potsy PonciroliStars: Himesh Patel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lily James, Tim Blake Nelson, Uzo Aduba, Traci Lords, Simon Rex, Jim Gaffigan, Jose Maria Yazpik, Joey Lauren Adams, Neva Howell. This blackly comic and atmospheric low budget crime drama from director Potsy Ponciroli (Old Henry, etc) and writer Mike Vukadinovich (tv series Runaways, etc) is set …
GHOSTLIGHT
GHOSTLIGHT Reviewed by GREG KINGDirectors: Kelly Sullivan and Alex ThompsonStars: Keith Kupferer, Kathleen Mallen Kupferer, Tara Mallen, Dolly De Leon, Matthew C Yee, Hannah Dworkin, Tommy Rivera-Vega, Alma Washington, H B Ward, Dexter Zollicoffer. Dan Mueller (played by Keith Kupferer, from Widows, etc) is a blue-collar construction worker for the local council, but he is a volatile ball of barely …
