BIRD Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Andrea ArnoldStars: Barry Keoghan, Nykiya Adams, Franz Rogowski, Jason Buda, Frankie Box, Jasmine Jobson.Bird is Andrea Arnold’s first new feature film in eight years, but this sometimes bleak contemporary urban drama and coming of age tale easily taps into her familiar milieu of biting social concerns, gritty realism, working class struggles and humanism. It is also …
POOR THINGS
POOR THINGS Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Yorgos LanthimosStars: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Kathryn Hunter, Suzy Bembra, Jerrod Carmichael, Hanna Schygulla, Margaret Qualley, Vicki Pepperdine.Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos makes weird but oddly compelling and visually arresting dramas and absurdist comedies. His resume includes films such as Dogtooth, The Lobster, The …
THE OLD OAK
The Old Oak Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Ken LoachStars: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson, Trevor Fox, Chris McGlade, Col Tait, Chrissie Robinson, Chris Gotts, Jen Patterson, Arthur Oxley, Joe Armstrong, Andy Dawson.This is widely regarded as likely to be the final film from revered 86-year-old British director Ken Loach, who for over six decades has championed the working class and their …
THE FAVOURITE
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Yorgos LanthimosStars: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Houkt, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss, Jennifer White, James Smith.With films like The Lobster and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer to his credit, idiosyncratic Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has become something of a critic’s favourite and a darling of the art house circuit. But his latest film, the arch and …
AMERICAN HONEY
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Andrea ArnoldStars: Sasha Lane, Shia LeBeouf, Riley Keough.British filmmaker Andrea Arnold has given us a sometimes bleak view on listless British youth with films like Fish Tank, but with her latest film she has turned her discerning view on America. We are introduced to a motley crew of youngsters who travel around America's midwest selling magazine subscriptions door …
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Billy O'BrienStars: Max Records, Christopher Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Karl Geary, Christina Baldwin, Raymond Brandstrom, Lucy Lawton, Dee Noah.This gripping low budget psychological thriller mixes the familiar coming of age themes with outright horror tropes and a touch of the supernatural. Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver (played by Max Records, the misunderstood young …
