MEGALOPOLIS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Francis Ford Coppola Stars: Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Le Beouf, Jon Voight, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, James Remar, Talia Shire, D B Sweeney, Balthazar Getty, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman. From revered Oscar winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, …
JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL 2024 – interview with MANISAY OUDOMVILAY
28TH JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL – interview with MANISAY OUDOMVILAY by GREG KING 2024 sees the twenty-eighth edition of the Japanese Film festival, and it has now grown into the largest festival of Japanese cinema in the world. This year’s selection offers a diverse range of films, stories that celebrate unexpected connections, The opening night film is Mom, Is That You? There is a retrospective series of …
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MIDAS MAN
MIDAS MAN Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joe Stephenson Stars: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Eddie Marsan, Emily Watson, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Ed Speelers, Jonah Lees, Blake Richardson, Campbell Wallace, Leo Harvey-Elledge, Adam Lawrence, Darci Shaw, Jay Leno, Eddie Izzard. Most people are aware that Brian Epstein was the manager of The Beatles, and he steered them to global fame and success in the 60s changing …
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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MR BLAKE AT YOUR SERVICE
MR BLAKE AT YOUR SERVICE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gilles Legardinier Stars: John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Emilie Dequenne, Philippe Bas, Eugenie Anselin. Andrew Blake (played by John Malkovich) is a successful businessman who is grieving the death of his beloved wife Diane four months earlier. He first met her at a mansion in France forty years earlier and it was love at first sight. The couple were …
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. …
