ALL OF US STRANGERS reviewed by GREG KING Director: Andrew Haigh Stars: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy. Adam (Andrew Scott, from the queer themed Handsome Devil, etc) is a gay middle-aged screen writer who lives by himself in a high-rise apartment block in London, although the building itself seems almost deserted. He spends most of his time listening to vinyl records and watching 80s …
LEAN ON PETE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Andrew Haigh Stars: Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Travis Fimmel, Amy Seimetz, Lewis Pullman, Steve Zahn, Alison Elliott, Bob Olin. Lean On Pete is a gritty coming of age story about a boy and his love for a horse, but it is a far cry from the more family friendly films like Black Beauty, The Black Stallion, etc. Fifteen-year old Charley Thompson (played by …
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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