THE CROW Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rupert Sanders Stars: Bill Skarsgard, FKA Twigs, Danny Huston, Sami Bouajila, Laura Birn, Isabella Wei, Josette Simon. An ugly mix of gothic superhero movie, love story and revenge drama with supernatural undertones, this is a pointless, unnecessary, dark and gratuitously violent reboot of Alex Proyas’ 1994 film The Crow. That film was, unfortunately, most notable …
ALIEN ROMULUS
ALIEN ROMULUS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Fede Alvarez Stars: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Aileen Wu, Isabele Merced, Spike Fearn, Ian Holm. Alien Romulus is the seventh film in the Alien franchise that began way back in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s superb fusion of sci-fi and horror. It is a legacy sequel that pays lip service to the original films. The film is set in the year …
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 – REVIEWS
ALL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEWS WRITTEN BY GREG KING CUCKOO. A German/US co-production, this offbeat and strange drama is the sophomore feature for German born filmmaker Tilman Singer and follows his striking 2018 debut Luz. The film is vaguely disorienting. We meet Gretchen (played by Hunter Schafer, from the tv series Euphoria, etc), a surly 17-year-old American who reluctantly heads off to the Bavarian …
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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 …
STING
STING Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kiah Roache-Turner Stars: Ayla Browne, Ryan Corr, Penelope Mitchell, Noni Hazlehurst, Robyn Nevin, Jermaine Fowler, Danny Kim, Sylvia Colloca, Lee Perry. Anyone afraid of snakes and creepy crawlies should probably look away now. In the vein of Arachnophobia and Eight Legged Freaks and their ilk comes yet another horror film featuring a nasty, lethal and alien spider …
MAXXXINE
MAXXXINE Reviewed by GREG KING Stars: Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Kevin Bacon, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito, Halsey, Moses Sumney, Lily Collins, Simon Prast, Chloe Farnworth, Larry Fessenden, Toby Huss. Sex, religion and violence are again the key driving forces behind the dramatic action in this final instalment in Ti West’s trilogy of slasher horror films starring Mia Goth. …
