MAY DECEMBER reviewed by GREG KING Director: Todd Haynes Stars: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Chris Tenzis, Gabriel Chung, Elizabeth Yu, Kelvin Han Yee. This richly layered, melodramatic but deliberately ambiguous character study from director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, etc) is inspired by the real-life case of Mary Kay Letourneau, a 34-year-old schoolteacher who was convicted of …
SUBURBICON
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: George Clooney Stars: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac, Noah Jupe, Mickey D Cohen, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basraba. Set in a neat, homogenous suburban neighbourhood, this deft mix of black comedy, film noir crime thriller and social commentary lays bare the darker underbelly of 50s America, exposing a seething hotbed of racism and violence. With its elements of …
MAGGIE’S PLAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rebecca Miller Stars: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Travis Fimmel, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Wallace Shawn. I find Greta Gerwig an annoying screen presence, especially given her penchant for playing flighty, self-centred and kooky characters in those quirky New York based hipster romantic comedies from the likes of Noah Baumbach with whom she has regularly …
SEVENTH SON
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sergei Bodrov Stars: Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Antje Traue, John Desantis, Jason Scott Lee. Jeff Bridges will forever be the "dude" from The Big Lebowski. But since winning an Oscar a couple of years ago for Crazy Heart he seems determined to piss away whatever cinematic goodwill he has left with …
STILL ALICE
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmloreland Stars: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart, Hunter Parrish, Shane McCrae. Julianne Moore has consistently delivered wonderful, nuanced and brilliant performances throughout her career, and she thoroughly deserves an Oscar. She has previously been unsuccessful from four nominations, but her fifth nomination, for Still …
NONSTOP
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Stars: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Linus Roache, Corey Stoll, Michelle Dockery, Lupita Nyong'o, Scoot McNairy, Omar Metwally. Nonstop is not the type of film you want to sit through if you're planning on flying anywhere in the near future. But otherwise it is a slick, efficiently directed suspense thriller set on a trans-Atlantic flight. An aeroplane makes for …
