Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Roger Michell Stars: Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson. Morning Glory is a snappy comedy set against the background of a low rating morning television news show which is hoping to turn its fortunes around. When Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is sacked from her job as executive news… Continue Reading »
MR POPPER’S PENGUINS
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mark Waters Stars: Jim Carrey, Angela Lansbury, Carla Gugino, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Madeline Carroll, Olivia Lovibond, Clark Gregg, David Krumholtz. Audiences seem to have a fascination with penguins on screen. The delightful animated Happy Feet was a huge box office success, and we reveled in the scene stealing antics of… Continue Reading »
MRS CAREY’S CONCERT
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Directors: Robert Connolly and Sophie Raymond This is not another of those films like Mr Holland’s Opus in which a dedicated teacher transforms the lives of their disadvantaged students through music. Rather this is a fascinating documentary that takes us inside a private girl’s school in Sydney and the music… Continue Reading »
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX – interview with MORITZ BLEIBTREU
By Greg King “We could not have made this film in Germany ten years ago,” German actor Moritz Bleibtreu says of his new film The Baader Meinhof Complex, which opened the Festival of German Films in Melbourne recently. Part thriller, part historical drama, part character study, The Baader Meinhof Complex traces the rise of the… Continue Reading »
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Clint Eastwood Stars: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Margo Martindale, Lucia Rijker Clint Eastwood is one of the best American film makers around, and as he gets older, he also seems to get better. Now the wrong side of 70, he is aware that he can no longer play… Continue Reading »
MEAN MACHINE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Barry Skolnick Stars: Vinnie Jones, David Hemmings, Jason Flemyng, Ralph Brown With the recent welter of disappointing and largely unnecessary remakes that have added little to the original (Planet Of The Apes, Get Carter, and even The Time Machine) it is refreshing to come across a remake that actually stands… Continue Reading »