Actors love to play against type. Some take it to another level. Channing Tatum, only recently dubbed the sexiest man alive, wouldn’t necessarily be the first choice for a down on his luck anti-hero who […]
Category: Reviews
ATOMIC BLONDE
You’ve seen Atomic Blonde before, you’ve just never seen it like this. Now undeniably one of the world’s biggest action stars, Charlize Theron has teamed up with David Leitch, one half of the uncredited Directing […]
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
Rarely has a film in modern memory replete with so many exceptional actors been so poorly cast. Luc Besson’s $180 million adaption of the beloved French comic series and the most expensive indie ever made […]
THE BIG SICK
The best creative output is all too often autobiographical, but art doesn’t always do the best job of imitating life. Comedian and Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani, playing a thinly-fictionalized version of himself, quickly falls […]
DUNKIRK
Dunkirk is a lot of things. Counter-intuitively, Christopher Nolan’s latest is better defined by what it isn’t. It is not a war film, at least not in the traditional sense. Set amidst the large-scale military […]
A MONSTER CALLS
Some of the best films ever made chronicle the sad, terrible, fixating and/or fantastical ways we deal with grief. This is not one of them. Centred on English schoolboy Conor’s (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to come […]
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
The dispiriting irony of this latest series of Apes films in that it trades so heavily on nostalgia for one of the greatest science-fiction stories ever realised that it so desperately hopes you haven’t seen. […]
FILM HAWK
One of a number of enjoyable films about films and their champions, Film Hawk, more than most, opts for a very inside baseball look at one of the industry’s well-known figures. Bob Hawk is a […]
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
Homecoming is the best Spider-Man film in fifteen years. It took a long time, but they’ve done him justice. Never before has someone, who actually looks like a teenager to boot, ever nailed the nonchalant, […]
BABY DRIVER
High expectations are the worst. There are few fans of Edgar Wright who wouldn’t salivate at the prospect of The World’s End and Hot Fuzz Director taking on another much-loved series of tropes, in this […]
MCLAREN
Only the second and last driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix with his name on the bonnet, Bruce McLaren’s formidable legacy gets a fairly laudable treatment in Roger Donaldson’s new documentary. No stranger […]
THE BEGUILED
There are two films here – you might like one of them, and you may struggle to like both. Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, based on the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, itself adapted by Don […]
PACMEN
No one wants to see how the sausage is made. You might however want to see this film. The Republican primary season of 2016 will inevitably be the subject of countless films and documentaries. One […]
OTHERLIFE
Fixing on a great idea or something you haven’t seen before isn’t easy – watching any flick is that much better when you know the filmmakers have floored their premise. Home-grown Aussie sci-fi OtherLife asks […]
THE FARTHEST
Imagine knowing that the first time extra-terrestrial life hears a human voice, it might be yours. Or better yet, Chuck Berry. Charting the Voyager project from the get-go to, as Star Trek fans can attest […]
MY NAME IS EMILY
Uplifting if wildly uneven, My Name is Emily will leave you with a smile on your face and no doubt scratching your head. Emily (Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch) has had a rough time. Her […]
WIND RIVER
Taylor Sheridan. Remember that name. The Actor turned Writer and now Director blew away audiences with Sicario in 2015 and only a year later turned over Hell or High Water, the criminally underrated Oscars dark […]
THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS
Let’s go with glass half full. The debut feature by Portugese Director Jose Pedro Lopes, The Forest of Lost Souls, at least for the first Act, is engrossing horror. Set upon dying in a forest […]
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Director Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro is not a film that lends itself to casual nor […]
IT’S NOT YET DARK
An uplifting story for film-tragics, anyone familiar with the impact of Motor Neuron Disease, or both, It’s Not Yet Dark, unlike the many fictional stories that no doubt inspired its central figure, is all the […]
BETTER WATCH OUT
It’s one thing to be knocked off your feet by a top horror flick, it’s another entirely to find out they shot it down the road from your childhood home. Set in a quiet suburban […]
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
Compelling if flawed, the one thing you can’t fault here is the title. Driving right at the heart of the radically different notions that makes this film tick, The Other Side of Hope manages to […]
