Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Renee Webster Stars: Sally Phillips, Erik Thomson, Alexander England, Ryan Johnson, Josh Thompson, Ben Mortley, Cameron Daddo, Asher Yasbincek, Caroline Brazier, Myles Pollard, Roz Hammond, Hayley McElhinney. What do women want? Gina (British actress Sally Phillips, from the Bridget Jones trilogy, etc) is a middle-aged woman stuck in a loveless marriage with …
HIVE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Blerta Basholi Stars: Yllka Gashi, Cun Lajci. Something of a companion piece to the harrowing Quo Vadis, Aida? Hive is another story to emerge from the horrors of the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. Based on real events and set in the aftermath of the conflict, Hive explores the cost of the war from a different perspective. A Kosovan/Macedonian and Swiss co-production, Hive …
HOLMES & WATSON
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Etan Cohen Stars: Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Kelly Macdonald, Pam Ferris, Ralph Fiennes, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Hugh Laurie, Noah Jupe, Lauren Lapkus, Michael Culkin. My list of the worst films of 2018 has just had a late addition with Holmes & Watson, an execrable and terribly unfunny piece of nonsense that will have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spinning in …
HALLOWEEN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Gordon Green Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Will Patton, Andi Matichak, Haluk Bilginer, Nick Castle, Rhian Rees, Jeffereson Hall, Toby Huss, Dylan Arnold, Drew Scheid, Virginia Gardner. Set forty years after the events of the original, David Gordon Green’s take on John Carpenter’s classic genre defining slasher film from 1978 works effectively as a direct sequel. …
BOOK WEEK – interview with Heath Davis
by GREG KING The sophomore feature film for writer/director Heath Davis Book Week has its premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 15. It screens again on August 18. Book Week follows high school English teacher, Nicholas Cutler (played by Alan Dukes) who thinks his life is about to change for the better when he learns his trashy zombie novel is going to be published. But his life soon …
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: A MONSTER HOLIDAY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Stars: voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Fran Drescher, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Mel Brooks, Molly Shannon, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Parnell, Joe Jonas, Asher Blinkoff. The animated Hotel Transylvania series has given Adam Sandler some of the biggest box office hits of his career, so it’s …
