The Best Movie Reviews
by GREG KING Strange Creatures is a road movie in which two estranged brothers – Nathan and Jed – embark on a journey to spread their late mother’s ashes on the country property where they grew up. Along the way they come to explore their differences and find some common ground. The film is the debut feature for writer/director Henry Boffin (the tv series Metrosexual, etc). It is screening at the Melbourne …
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HIGH & LOW: JOHN GALLIANO Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Kevin MacDonald. From Oscar winning filmmaker Kevin MacDonald (Touching The Void, etc) comes High & Low, a revealing documentary about the rise and fall of legendary iconoclastic fashion designer John Galliano, who has been acclaimed as one of the greatest designers of the twentieth century. Galliano rose to prominence in …
HOW TO HAVE SEX reviewed by GREG KING Director: Molly Manning-Walker Stars: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley, Laura Ambler. What a salacious eye-catching title! But rather than a documentary this is another in the cycle of coming-of-age films featuring a group of horny teenagers on a sex and alcohol fuelled holiday in a sun-drenched exotic location. It …
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ariane Louis-Seize Stars: Sara Montpetit, Felix-Antoine Benard, Noemei O'Farrell, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, Marie Brassard, Gabriel-Antoine Roy. What a great title! Evocative, yet strange enough to whet the appetite for what is essentially a blend of horror, black comedy, teen romance and coming of age …
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Justin Simien Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny De Vito, Jared Leto, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chase W Dillon, Creek Wilson, Charity Jordan. Disney seems to be lacking in creativity at the moment because all they seem to produce are live action remakes of their animated classics, endless sequels and spin offs from some of their successful …
Reviewed by GREG KING Happy 50 Director: Eric Lavaine Stars: Lambert Wilson, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Franck Dubosc, Lionel Abelanski, Jerome Cammandeur, Lysiane Meis, Caroline Angalade, Valerie Crouzet, Sophie Duez, Alice Llenas. Director Eric Lavaine reunites most of the cast of his 2014 ensemble comedy Barbecue and brings them back to reprise their characters for this sequel, which was one of the hits of …
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, …
