Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Joseph Kosinski Stars: Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo, Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau. The visually stunning sci-fi drama Oblivion is the sophomore film from director Joseph Kosinski, who previously gave us the equally dazzling Tron: Legacy. Although hailing from a background as a visual artist and an architectural… Continue Reading »
OUR IDIOT BROTHER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jesse Peretz Stars: Paul Rudd, Kathryn Hahn, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Shirley Knight, Hugh Dancy, T J Miller. The rather politically incorrectly titled Our Idiot Brother is a mildly amusing and quirky character driven comedy about a well-meaning slacker who accidentally creates chaos for his three… Continue Reading »
ONE DAY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Lone Scherfig Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott. At first this heartbreaking romantic drama seems like a variation of Same Time, Next Year, the 1978 Robert Mulligan drama in which Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn carried out an illicit affair over the course of 25 years, meeting… Continue Reading »
OVERHEARD 2
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Alan Mak and Felix Chong Stars: Shaun Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Kenneth Tsang, Michelle Ye, Woo Fung, Kong Ngai, Felix Lok, Kwok Fung. This pacy thriller about high finance, greed, corruption, betrayal, murder and revenge is a sequel of sorts to Alan Mak and Felix Chong’s 2009 thriller Overheard.… Continue Reading »
ORANGES AND SUNSHINE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jim Loach Stars: Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving, Richard Dillane. In the ‘50’s and ‘60s, thousands of British children were removed from their natural families and deported to Australia and other countries in a shameful social experiment. It was the austere and ultra-conservative post war years, and the children… Continue Reading »
OCEANS
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Directors: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzard. Lovers of the National Geographic style of documentary and television wildlife documentaries will certainly enjoy Oceans, the new documentary from Disney and French filmmakers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzard (the Oscar nominated Travelling Birds, etc). Perrin and Cluzard take us on an underwater journey with… Continue Reading »