MEGALOPOLIS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Francis Ford Coppola Stars: Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Le Beouf, Jon Voight, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, James Remar, Talia Shire, D B Sweeney, Balthazar Getty, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman. From revered Oscar winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, …
FERRARI
FERRARI reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Mann Stars: Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Gadon, Jack O'Connell, Gabriel Leone, Derek Hill, Ben Collins. Michael Mann’s first film since 2015’s Black Hat is a biopic about iconic former racing car driver turned entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, who, at one stage, was the second most famous man in Italy, behind the Pope. …
HOUSE OF GUCCI
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, Jack Huston, Reeve Carney, Camille Cottin. Trashy melodrama about the downfall of the luxury fashion house of Gucci. In March 1995 Maurizio Gucci, the CEO of the famous fashion house, was shot dead on the steps outside his Milan office by a couple of assassins hired by his …
THE LAST DUEL
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck, Harriet Walter, Marton Csokas, Zeljko Ivanek, Alex Lawther, Clare Dunne, Clive Russell, William Houston, Nathaniel Parker. Acclaimed director Ridley Scott made his directorial debut 44 years ago with the visually sumptuous The Duellists. Set during the Napoleonic era, the drama starred Harvey Keitel and …
THE REPORT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Scott Z Burns Stars: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Morrison, Douglas Hodge, Tim Blake Nelson, Matthew Rhys, Scott Shepherd, Corey Stoll, Maura Tierney, Sandra Landers, Scott Shepherd. Washington 2009. Obama is in the White House. Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J Jones (Adam Driver) has been tasked by his boss, Democratic …
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018 – reviews
ALL REVIEWS WRITTEN BY GREG KING LAST UPDATED AUGUST 17, 2018 THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE. The struggles faced by idiosyncratic and maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam in trying to bring to the screen his long gestating passion project about Don Quixote have been well detailed in the fascinating 2002 documentary Lost In La Mancha. That film told of the storms that destroyed sets, the lack of financial …
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