by GREG KING. JIFF 2014 brings audiences new films from Israel and Jewish themed films, including award winning films from 43 major international festivals. JIFF is an opportunity to challenge our preconceived ideas on religion, politics, news. The opening night film is the drama Gett: The Trial Of Vivianne Amsalem, about the tribulations faced by a Jewish woman who wants to get a divorce. The film won the Best …
DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Directors: Andrew Wight, John Bruno, Ray Quint. Filmmaker James Cameron embarks on his own personal voyage to the bottom of the sea in this documentary that records his 2012 dive to the Challenger Deep, some 36,000 feet below sea level. But Deepsea Challenge is also something of a vanity project for the director who has given us some of the most commercially successful films of …
THE INAUGURAL SCANDINAVIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2014 – REVIEWS
by GREG KING Scandinavian crime fiction is all the rage at the moment, particularly following the international success of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy from Sweden, and tv shows like The Killing and Borgen, etc. Capturing the zeitgeist for all things Scandinavian at the moment, Palace cinemas have launched the inaugural Scandinavian Film Festival which is screening around the country in July. Here in …
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THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY FILM SHOW PODCAST EPISODE #80
This week on The Good The Bad The Ugly Film Show Adam, Dave, Nick and Greg take a look at new release films ‘The Babadook’, ‘Ida’, ‘My Sweet Pepperland,’ ‘‘The Trip To Italy’and ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’. This episode also sees Dave give a mini review of X-Men: Days Of Future Past. To listen to the show you can download it for free from our Podcast Channel – Listen/Download here …
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MONSTERFEST 2013
by GREG KING. The annual Monsterfest festival of horror films hits Melbourne's Nova Cinema from November 21. Featuring a line up of some of the most bizarre and gory horror films to blow your mind, Monsterfest kicks off with a special screening of the classic The Exorcist, to be introduced by Linda Blair herself. Regarded as one of the best horror films ever made, The Exorcist was directed by William Friedkin …
JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013
by GREG KING JIFF 2013…A FESTIVAL WORTH WAITING FOR JIFF is back with a show-stopping line-up of 51 Israeli and Jewish-themed features, documentaries and shorts from around the globe. Building on its dynamic reinvention in 2012 under the helm of Director Eddie Tamir, the Festival will explore the full spectrum of Jewish experience in all its rich complexity, via an incredible 50 Australian premiere screenings, …
