Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Bay Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Maheen II, Eiza Gonzalez, Garret Dillahunt, Kier O'Donnell, A Martinez, Jackson White. Two bank robbers (Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Maheen II) hijack an ambulance to escape from a botched bank robbery. Inside the ambulance is Cam Thompson (Eiza Gonzalez, from Baby Driver, etc) a dedicated paramedic who is working to keep a …
THE GUILTY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Antoine Fuqua Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Christina Vidal, Adrian Martinez, Riley Keough, Peter Skarsgaard, Ethan Hawke, Paul Dano, Eli Goree, Christiana Montoya. "Broken people save broken people.” Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a cop who has been demoted for some unspecified incident and is now working night shifts at the Los Angeles Police Department’s 911 dispatch …
WILDLIFE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Paul Dano Stars: Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp. The opening night film for the Melbourne International Film Festival this year was Wildlife, a small coming of age drama which marks the directorial debut for Paul Dano, an actor better known for playing troubled and eccentric characters in films like Little Miss Sunshine and Prisoners, etc. Wildlife …
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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STRONGER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Gordon Green Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Clancy Brown, Lenny Clarke, Danny McCarthy, Patricia O'Neil, Carlos Sanz. Peter Berg’s 2016 drama Patriots Day looked at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured hundreds more, and the massive police manhunt for the terrorists that …
LIFE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Daniel Espinosa Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Ariyon Bakare, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya. Some mad movie scientist has spliced together the DNA of Alien, John Carpenter’s The Thing and Gravity, and the result is Life, a slick claustrophobic sci-fi thriller. This extra-terrestrial creature feature is familiar stuff and ticks all the right …
