All films reviewed by GREG KING Last updated May 28, 2021 THE AUDITION. This psychological drama and character study from German actress turned filmmaker Ina Weisse is a dark study in ambition, and obsession. This is her sophomore feature, following 2008’s The Architect. Anna Brodsky (played by veteran German actress Nina Hoss) is a violin teacher at a prestigious Berlin music conservatory who becomes …
MELBOURNE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL 2016 REVIEWS
ALL REVIEWS BY GREG KING UPDATED APRIL 23 2016. REMEMBERING THE MAN. Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding The Man, published posthumously in 1994, is one of the touchstones of queer culture here in Australia. Widely regarded as a seminal novel about being gay, love and life in the time of AIDS, the novel was a poignant story about his long time love for John Caleo. The pair first met when they were schoolboys at …
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 – REVIEWS
by GREG KING Last Updated March 23, 2016 MARGUERITE. Occasionally there are times when we get two films released dealing with similar themes or plot lines - we've had two Die Hard in the White House clones with Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, two volcano films with Dante's Peak and Volcano and two giant asteroids heading for Earth with Mimi Leder's Deep Impact and Michael Bay's Armageddon. And now we …
