Reviewed by GREG KING Director:Mohsen Makhmalbaf Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Abbas Sayah, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami Running time: 74 minutes. The latest film to emerge from the gradually burgeoning film making culture of Iran is the visually stunning and lyrically beautiful Gabbeh. Like the recent The White Balloon, Gabbeh initially seems a deceptively simple story, but it reveals much about the …
MOTHER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director:Albert Brooks Stars:Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds, Rob Morrow, Lisa Kudrow, Isabel Glasser, Peter White, John C McGinley A number of complex Oedipal issues and dysfunctional family relationships are put under the microscope in this quite funny comedy from writer/director Albert Brooks (Defending Your Life, Lost In America, etc), who has often been described as the west …
THE RELIC
Reviewed by GREG KING Director:Peter Hyams Stars: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, James Whitmore, Linda Hunt, Clayton Rohner, Chi Muoi Lo, Robert Lesser Running Time:110 minutes Alien in the museum? This glib one-liner is probably the best way to describe Peter Hyams' new horror film The Relic. Hyams has always been a very good director of genre thrillers such as Capricorn One, Sudden Death, etc, and …
A SELF MADE HERO
A Self Made Hero Reviewed by GREG KING Director:Jacques AudiardStars:Matthieu Kassovitch, Nadia Barentin, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anouk Grinberg, Albert Dupontel, Jean-Louis TrintignantRunning Time:105 minutes In any war, the first casualty is always the truth! And so it seems with this wry and cynical comic drama from France that offers a wonderfully subversive and ironic comment on the myth of the heroic French …
TURBULENCE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Robert Butler Stars: Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Ben Cross, Hector Elizondo, Rachel Ticotin, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Hicks The obvious temptation here would be to casually dismiss Turbulence as Airport 97! But thankfully this gripping yet often implausible and outrageously over the top thriller is much better than anything contained in that overblown series of disaster …
THE STUPIDS
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: John Landis Stars: Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna, Mark Metclafe, Matt Keeslar, Christopher Lee, David Cronenberg, Costa Gavras, Norman Jewison. Probably the most aptly titled film in recent memory, The Stupids is so bad it's almost offensive. The film starts off as being just plain stupid, and it only gets worse! After the success of True Lies and …
