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Green Book Movie Review

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:26:04 +0000

Side-stepping the back and forth conversation regarding Green Book’s historical accuracy for now, one is impressed with the film’s expansive entertainment value. It is engaging, uplifting and features some very strong acting performances. There are confronting moments but the film focuses most strongly on the budding friendship developing between its two main players.

Italian American Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) is a salt of the earth kind of guy who is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a hyper intelligent and cultured man of colour through the American South for a musical tour in the sixties. They couldn’t be more opposite.

The oppression in the South at the time towards people of colour becomes the catalyst for the two finding common ground. That racism is not shown in even a close manner to its actual horror at that time and in this way the film does present a revisionist history of events. It would have been very easy for the filmmaker to overwhelm the audience with how truly awful it was back then.

The film’s goal is to entertain while delivering a soft message and in that matter it excels. It does oversimplify a very negative and complex situation. People’s advancement towards overcoming racism will always happen in small steps and Green Book succeeds in providing one of those steps.

Rob Hudson
www.greenbook.com.au

Win a double pass to see the Oscar buzz movie Green Book starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali!

admin — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:22:59 +0000

Thanks to eOne we have ten in season passes to giveaway to the upcoming Oscar buzz film Green Book!

Award winning actors Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali star in Green Book, a film inspired by a true friendship. In need of a driver for his 1962 concert tour, world-class black pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Ali) recruits Tony Lip (Mortensen), a tough-talking Italian-American from the Bronx. As this mismatched pair set out on their journey, they must rely on the “Green Book” to guide them to safe establishments in America’s segregated south – but they’ll need more than a book to understand each other.

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival, Mortenson and Ali make a winning double act in this humorous and heartwarming film.

Directed by Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary) and starring Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic), Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) and Linda Cardellini (Bloodline) and is in Australian Cinemas January 24, 2019!
www.greenbook.com.au

To enter this great competition just fill out the entry form below.

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Competition will be drawn 20 January 2019, winners will be notified by mail.

Captain Fantastic Competition

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:35:20 +0000

We have five double in season passes to give away to Captain Fantastic!

Viggo Mortensen stars in Captain Fantastic, the hilarious and heartfelt journey of a father raising his six children off-the-grid in the American wilderness. Far from the modern world, Ben (Mortensen) teaches his kids survival skills and home-schools them with a challenging curriculum of science, philosophy, literature and a healthy dose of anarchy.

But when tragedy strikes, the family is forced to leave their self-created paradise and re-enter society. As the kids face the perils and excitement of an unfamiliar world, Ben begins to question the choices he has made for his family.

Directed by Matt Ross (Best Director, Un Certain Regard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival).

www.bleeckerstreetmedia.com

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Competition will be drawn 7 September 2016, winners will be notified by mail.