by GREG KING Sophia Turkiewicz is an Australian filmmaker (Silver City, and lots of television work, etc) who has long been conflicted over her feelings regarding her mother Helen. But it was in her mother’s twilight years, as Helen was slipping into dementia and was put into a nursing home, that she came to know… Continue Reading »
ONCE MY MOTHER
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Sophia Turkiewicz. Sophia Turkiewicz is an Australian filmmaker (Silver City, and lots of television work, etc) who has long been conflicted over her feelings regarding her mother Helen. When she was only seven, Sophia’s mother left her at a convent/orphanage in Adelaide for a couple of years. For a… Continue Reading »
THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY FILM SHOW PODCAST EPISODE #82
This week on The Good The Bad The Ugly Film Show Adam, Nick and Greg take a look at new release films ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’, ‘The Fault In Our Stars’, ‘Grace Of Monaco,’ ‘‘Omar,’ and ‘Rising From Ashes’. This episode also contains interviews with Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. To listen to the show you… Continue Reading »
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE.
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jim Jarmusch Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, John Hurt, Jeffrey Wright. Jim Jarmusch is one of the darlings of the American independent film scene, but he is also something of an acquired taste. His films are often existential in nature and explore loners and outcasts struggling to find their place in the world. His latest film is sure to please afficionadoes of his minimalist style. However, it unlikely to win over new converts. Only Lovers Left Alive offers an unconventional take on the mythology of vampires familiar to audiences through a series of horror films. But this is a far cry from the twee romance of Twilight,… Continue Reading »
THE OTHER WOMAN.
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Nick Cassavetes Stars: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, Kate Upton, Don Johnson, Nicki Minaj. First bimbos club? Written by first time feature film writer Melissa Stack, The Other Woman initially seems like another variation on The First Wives Club, but rather than three middleaged divorcees combining forces to seek revenge on the husbands who dumped them for younger more attractive trophy wives, this laboured and terribly dull comedy sees three women gang up on the one man who played with their affections and betrayed them romantically. Cameron Diaz, fresh from committing an unnatural sex act with a … Continue Reading »
THE BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL
by GREG KING. Screening around Australia in late November is a showcase of some of the finest cinema from Britain. The opening night film is the crowd pleasing One Chance, the biopic of Paul Potts, the inaugural winner of Britain’s Got Talent. Other films include Good Vibrations, which screened at MIFF, the delightful comedy Austenland,… Continue Reading »