This week on The Good The Bad The Ugly Film Show Dave, Greg and Nick take a look at new release films ‘The Giver’, ”I Origins,’ ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ Night Moves,’ ‘Tarzan,’ and ‘Step Up: All In′ . This episode also contains an interview with Brenton Thwaites, Brit Marling, Megan Fox, Jesse Eisenberg, Briana Evigan, Adam… Continue Reading »
NERDS IN LOVE -interview with Stan Walker
by GREG KING Nerds In Love is a short comedy film from director Sean Rodrigo, and it stars former Australian Idol winner Stan Walker. It is set largely in a supermarket. Nothing ever really happens to Emilio (played by comedian Lawrence Leung). Until one day while working night-shift as a cleaner in a suburban shopping… Continue Reading »
NOAH
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Darren Aronofsky Stars: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Marton Csokas, Mark Margolis, voices of Nick Nolte, Frank Langella. Darren Aronofsky’s films have often been concerned with themes of obsession and tortured characters (The Fountain, Black Swan, etc), and his seriously flawed take on the Biblical parable of Noah is no exception. But this is not the tale of Noah and his ark as you might remember from Sunday school readings. Rather, Aronofsky and his regular collaborator Ari Handler have taken liberties of Biblical proportions with the familiar tale that occupied a mere 97 verses in the book of Genesis. According to the accepted Biblical story Noah was a sort of prophet who was commanded by the vengeful God to build an ark to save all manner of wildlife from the apocalyptic flood that he was going to send to wipe out mankind and its wickedness from the face of his earth. Noah was aware of the inherent evil nature of man from an early age when he witnessed his father brutally killed by a group of hunters. And he has seen how rapacious humans have laid waste to the land.… Continue Reading »
NYMPHOMANIAC
Reviewed by GREG KING Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Shia Le Beouf, Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, Stacy Martin, Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe. Danish auteur Lars Von Trier is one of contemporary cinema’s enfants terrible, who has established a reputation for controversy through his confronting and deliberately provocative films. The sexually explicit and graphic Nymphomaniac will… Continue Reading »
NONSTOP
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Linus Roache, Corey Stoll, Michelle Dockery, Lupita Nyong’o, Scoot McNairy, Omar Metwally. Nonstop is not the type of film you want to sit through if you’re planning on flying anywhere in the near future. But otherwise it is a slick, efficiently directed suspense… Continue Reading »
NEED FOR SPEED
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Scott Waugh Stars: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Harrison Gilbertson, Michael Keaton, Scott Mesudi, Rami Malek, Ramon Rodriguez, Imogen Poots. Rev heads and action fans anxious for the arrival of the next instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise can get their adrenaline rush and fix of car porn with Need… Continue Reading »