Reviewed by GREG KINGDocumentaryDirector: Lixin Fan.After seeing this documentary from China I am never going to complain about catching a crowded train in peak hour in Melbourne ever again.In China every year millions of peasants from the countryside make their way into the big cities to toil away in menial jobs to earn good money to make a better life for their families. Most of them have …
LITTLE JOHNNY – Interview with RALPH MOSER
by GREG KING.We’ve all heard some of those "little Johnny" jokes, now we can discover their origin. Little Johnny is a new animated mockumentary that discovers the "real boy" behind the jokes, and also looks at his dysfunctional family that provided the inspiration for much of the humour. The film itself is the brainchild of Ralph Moser and his co-director Dean Murphy and screenwriter Stewart Fainchey. The three …
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: George BerlantiStars: Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl,The premise of the most unlikely people being unexpectedly thrust into the role of parenthood and having to bring up someone else’s baby is not new.Previously we have had Three Men And A Baby, in which carefree bachelors Ted Danson, Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg raised a baby abandoned by a former girlfriend. In …
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN – interview with THOMAS ALFREDSON
By GREG KING.From Sweden, the home of ABBA, Volvo, IKEA and SAAB, comes this unusual vampire tale. Based on the best selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let The Right One In tells the story of the connection between Oskar, a 12 year old who is being bullied at school, and Eli, a young girl who moves into the apartment next door. At first Eli seems painfully shy, introverted. She turns out to be …
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LIFE AS A HOUSE
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Irwin WinklerStars: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jamey Sheridan, Mary Steenburgen, Jena MaloneWhile the title may not exactly sound riveting, Life As A House is a moving and beautifully written drama that explores a number of serious and important themes with surprising honesty and intelligence - themes like family, death, alienation, teenage …
LUMUMBA
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Raoul PeckStars: Eriq EbouaneyFrom the Oliver Stone paranoid conspiracy theory school of film making comes this Ghandi-wannabe biopic depicting the rise to power and fall from grace of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo after achieving independence from the yoke of Belgian colonialism. But this low budget biopic is a little muddled, and lacks Stone's …
