Review – The Great Gatsby
If you want, you can eat an entire chocolate cake, there is nothing stopping you besides a lack of willpower. Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ has the drive, and it’s the equivalent to… Continue reading
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Review – The Act of Killing
History is written by the victors and in the documentary ‘The Act of Killing’, the violent memories of real-life Indonesian death squad leaders are re-created in a surreal filmmaking landscape. The importance of… Continue reading
Review – The Hangover Part 3
When it comes to the ‘The Hangover’ sequels, we’re being punished for having a good time with the first film. If ‘Part 2’ was a clone of its predecessor, Part 3 is the… Continue reading
Review – The Call
From a 911 emergency call centre in America, operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) fields the pleas for help with ease while the distressed callers hauntingly echo throughout the facility. Stabbings, shootings, suicide attempts,… Continue reading
Review – A Place for Me*
The emotional shrapnel of a divorce scars a family of writers in ‘A Place for Me’. An acclaimed author (Greg Kinnear) and his teenage children (Lily Collins and Nat Wolff) are silently suffering… Continue reading
Review – Star Trek Into Darkness
The Star Trek franchise has always been known for its thoughtfulness while being grounded in the human experience of scientific endeavors and exploration; the core of all great science fiction. Director JJ Abrams… Continue reading
Review – Drift
When it comes to Australian surf safaris on film it’s a bit of a desert. Sure, on the documentary side there are lots of great surfing flicks, but for a country surrounded in… Continue reading
Review – Spring Breakers
The ideals of freedom, paradise and the American dream pulse in a neon coloured, bubble-gum scented descent into darkness in ‘Spring Breakers’, one of the most potent pieces of satire and filmmaking to… Continue reading
Review – The Place Beyond the Pines
Robbing banks, crooked cops and politics don’t really factor into the any parental mantra, but co-writer/director Derek Cianfrance squeezes it into his guide to fatherhood in ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ that, unfortunately,… Continue reading
Review – Iron Man 3
Clothes make the man, but does the armour make the Iron Man? Rather than lift Tony Stark/Iron Man’s stakes on the mythic superhuman scale, writer/director Shane Black strips back the character in ‘Iron… Continue reading
Review – Oblivion
High above the scorched landscape of planet Earth that has been destroyed by alien invaders called ‘Scavs’ there sits a flash living space featuring a large glass-bottom pool where the film’s characters frolic.… Continue reading
Review – Saving General Yang
After a seven year absence the director of ‘Freddy versus Jason’, ‘Bride of Chucky’ and ‘Warriors of Virtue’ (yes, the Kung-Fu kangaroo film), Ronnie Yu is back … and as mediocre as ever… Continue reading
Review – Trance
Amnesia, long lost lovers, slimy villains; sounds like a soap opera but it’s all packed into ‘Trance’, the new film from filmmaker Danny Boyle. While Boyle’s frenetic direction excels, the film is always… Continue reading
Review – Warm Bodies
‘Warm Bodies’ constructs the Frankenstein like zom-rom-com that isn’t as grotesque as the idea sounds. It’s humorous, sweet and has unexpected depth that superbly elevates it well above the genre bending gimmick it… Continue reading
Review – Sound City
For those about to rock, we salute you. ‘Sound City’ is a fond acknowledgement of a special time when a studio produced several albums that signaled key moments in music history. It’s indulgent… Continue reading