PRESENCE Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Steven SoderberghStars: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, Callina Liang, West Mulholland, Julia Fox. Steven Soderbergh’s latest film is a low budget supernatural haunted house tale that could be a distant cousin of the supernatural Paranormal Activity series. But unlike those films, which drew upon the found footage aesthetic, in Presence all of the …
PADDINGTON IN PERU
PADDINGTON IN PERU Reviewed by GREG KING.Director: Dougal WilsonStars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Julie Walters, Samuel Joslin, Madeleine Harris, Imelda Staunton, Carla Tous, Hayley Atwell, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant. This is the third film in the series following the adventures of everybody’s favourite marmalade loving bear, and it is full of the …
PIECE BY PIECE
PIECE BY PIECE Reviewed by GREG KINGDocumentaryDirector: Morgan NevilleStars: Pharrell Williams. “If life was like a Lego box we could shape it how we like,” says multi-Grammy award winning singer, hip hop artist and record producer Pharrell Williams. Thus we get this unconventional and genre-defying documentary about Williams, best known for his Oscar-nominated song Happy, from …
PERFECT DAYS
PERFECT DAYS Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Wim Wenders Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arise Nakano, Aoi Yamada.This slow-moving, gently paced minimalist drama from revered German filmmaker Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, etc) is set in Japan and reveals his great appreciation for Japan, its culture and traditions. A German/Japanese coproduction Perfect Days was nominated for an Oscar, becoming the …
PRISCILLA
PRISCILLA reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Sophia CoppolaStars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Tim Post, Lynne Griffin.In 2022 Baz Luhrmann gave us Elvis, his flashy, flamboyant Oscar nominated biopic of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Now Sophia Coppola gives us a different take on Elvis in this superficial biopic that views his legend through the perspective of …
POOR THINGS
POOR THINGS Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Yorgos LanthimosStars: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Kathryn Hunter, Suzy Bembra, Jerrod Carmichael, Hanna Schygulla, Margaret Qualley, Vicki Pepperdine.Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos makes weird but oddly compelling and visually arresting dramas and absurdist comedies. His resume includes films such as Dogtooth, The Lobster, The …
