John Wick Chapter 4 Reviewed by GREG KING Stars: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Ian McShane, Bill Skarsgard, Shamier Anderson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Laurence Fishburne, Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Clancy Brown, Natalia Tena, Aimee Kwan. Keanu Reeves returns as the taciturn, virtually indestructible lone wolf assassin John Wick in this fourth installment in the successful franchise that …
JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Colin Trevorrow Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Campbell Scott, DeWanda Wise, Isabella Sermon, B D Wong, Omar Sy, Mamoudou Athie, Justice Smith, Dichen Lachman. This is the sixth and supposedly final film in the Jurassic franchise that began way back in 1993 with Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic …
FRIENDS AND STRANGERS – interview with director James Vaughan
by GREG KING Friends and Strangers is the debut feature film for writer/director James Vaughan. It is a comedy/drama about young twentysomethings fumbling their way through life. The film was shot on location around Sydney in 2019, and Vaughan spent the best part of a year editing it. Greg spoke to James about the origins of the film, about how autobiographical the story or the characters were, the casting, and …
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JOURNEY’S END
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Saul Dibb Stars: Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Toby Jones, Tom Sturridge, Stephen Graham, Rupert Wickham. A timely release sees this powerful and moving drama about the horrors of war, the senseless slaughter of a generation of young men, and the futility of it all, reach our screens to commemorate the centenary of the end of WWI, “the war to end all …
JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 – interview with Eddie Tamir
by GREG KING The Jewish International Film Festival is screening in Sydney and Melbourne. In Melbourne the festival screens at the Classic Cinema in Elsternwick, the Lido in Hawthorn and the Cameo in Belgrave. It runs until November 21, and will screen some 80 features and documentaries. The opening night film was the critically acclaimed bittersweet road movie The Interpreter. Closing the festival is The …
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JIRGA
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Benjamin Gilmour Stars: Sam Smith, Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad, Mohammad Mosam, Kefeyat Lag Humani. This low budget drama is the sophomore feature film from Australian writer/director Benjamin Gilmour, and follows his 2007 drama Son Of A Lion, which was set in post 9/11 Pakistan. Gilmour is familiar with the region and has chosen to set his new film in Afghanistan. Jirga deals …
