Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Guy Ritchie Stars: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, Cary Elwes, Josh Hartnett, Bugzy Malone, Eddie Marsden, Peter Ferdinando, Max Beesley, Lourdes Faberes. Filmmaker Guy Ritchie gathers together most of his usual band of players for this exciting, action packed but cliched, formulaic globe-trotting spy… Continue Reading »
ON THE EDGE – interview with Jen and Sylvia Soska
by GREG KING The Soska sisters are favourites at Monsterfest here in Australia. Their latest film On The Edge screens at Monsterfest. It is a psychosexual thriller that centres on Peter (acclaimed porn star Aramis Sartorio, who gets more than he bargains for when he books a session with a dominatrix Mistress Santana (played by… Continue Reading »
ON THE LINE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Romuald Boulanger Stars: Mel Gibson, William Moseley, Paul Spera, Alia Seror-O’Neill, Nadia Fares, Kevin Dillon, Enrique Arce, Yoli Fuller, Ravin J Ganatra, Nancy Tate, John Robinson. This claustrophobic thriller mainly set in one location has garnered some of the worst reviews of Mel Gibson’s career. Gibson, a former A-lister, has… Continue Reading »
ON THE COUNT OF THREE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jerrold Carmichael Stars: Jerrold Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, JB Smoove, Henry Winkler. Emmy award winning television writer, producer and stand-up comic Jerrold Carmichael makes his feature film directorial debut with this blackly comic buddy film about two best friends who make a suicide pact. Val (played by Carmichael) and… Continue Reading »
THE OUTFIT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Graham Moore Stars: Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Johnny Flynn, Zoey Deutch, Simon Russell Beale, Nikki Amuka-Bird. Not to be confused with the 1973 crime drama of the same name that was based on a novel by Donald E Westlake and which starred Robert Duvall as a former prisoner out for… Continue Reading »
ORPHAN: FIRST KILL
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: William Brent Bell Stars: Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Matthew Finlan, Hiro Kanagawa, Samantha Walkes. In 2009, the horror film Orphan introduced us to Leena Klammer (played by Isabelle Fuhrman), a psychopathic woman in her thirties who looks like a ten-year-old girl due to hypopituitarism, a rare glandular disorder… Continue Reading »