Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: James MangoldStars: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Live Schreiber, Breckin MeyerBlast From The Past, indeed!Queen of the romantic comedy, Meg Ryan returns to safe territory with this fluffy, light weight, undeniably formulaic farce in which a 19th century duke travels to modern day New York via a time portal and romances a jaded, high powered marketing executive. A healthy …
CORKY ROMANO
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Rob PrittsStars: Chris Kattan, Peter Falk, Chris Penn, Peter Berg, Matthew Glave, Fred Ward, Richard Roundtree.Sort of like a cross between The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, The Sopranos and Analyze This, Corky Romano is a deliberately silly, low brow Mob comedy that has its moments.Chris Kattan (from Saturday Night Live, etc) is a comic who has a very physical …
RABBIT PROOF FENCE
Rabbit Proof Fence Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Phillip NoyceStars: Kenneth Branagh, Deborah Mailman, Everlyn Sampri, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Garry MacDonald.After several big budget Hollywood thrillers (Patriot Games, The Bone Collector, etc), Phillip Noyce returns home for this rather small scale but very topical film exploring one of the more controversial chapters of …
KANDAHAR
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Mohsen MakhmalbafStars: Nelofer PaziraGiven the US sanctioned war against terrorism that is currently devastating much of Afghanistan, this new film from acclaimed Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh, etc) is both timely and has an immediacy and urgency. Kandahar gives audiences an insight into a land that few know about, and, in uncompromising fashion, explores …
SORORITY BOYS
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Wally WolodarskyStars: Michael Rosenbaum, Harland Williams, Barry WatsonFollowing in the stiletto heels of such cross-dressing classics as Some Like It Hot and Tootsie comes this rather feeble, laboured and largely unfunny sophomoric comedy. Sorority Boys is yet another film in the recent string of juvenile college comedies full of gross out and potentially offensive …
THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Woody AllenStars: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, David Ogden Stiers, Dan Aykroyd, Charlize TheronThere was a time when Woody Allen was capable of writing very funny screwball comedies that placed his neurotic alter ego in strange situations. But over the past decade his films have become more introspective and analytical of his own troubled personal life, and, consequently, …