Great ideas don’t always work. Alexander Payne’s Downsizing was one of the most anticipated films of an already packed year. An original conceit debuting to early plaudits, if formidable, rendered too grandly here derails this […]
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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
No series has to factor with a greater weight of expectations than Star Wars. It shows. Having to reckon with its predecessors’ legacy to deliver, like its forbears, something both original and dependently familiar here […]
BORG VS MCENROE
Finally, a sports movie that’s actually about sport. Invariably, football, rugby, Olympian and yes, tennis movies, including Battle of the Sexes, use their competitive backdrop to tell a larger story. Whether it be overcoming adversity, […]
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
The second best Cannes psychological drama starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman to be released in the past five months, both fans and detractors of Yorgos Lanthimos should know what to expect. Obliquely visited upon […]
PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN
There are three stories here, and as much as this film might blur the boundaries they are very, very different. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, as the title might suggest, relates to the creator […]
THE DISASTER ARTIST
Get ready for the film about ‘the worst movie ever made’ that wants to be the Best Picture of the year. If you haven’t seen the participatory crowd-favourite phenomenon that is The Room (what are […]
LUCKY
The last film yet released starring the late, prolific Harry Dean Stanton, this is one for the fans, and fans alone. The elderly Lucky (Stanton) lives his days routinely, hopping amongst the locales of his […]
JUSTICE LEAGUE
Who let this happen? Who, no doubt having seen Dawn of Justice, surmised that those behind Watchmen and Man of Steel, rather than, say, any of their more dexterous contemporaries, were the ones to raise […]
THINGS YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Kenneth Branagh casting himself as the lead in his own movie; Close-ups of Kenneth Branagh; Lots of close-ups of Kenneth Branagh; A moustache that alone merited this movie being made in 3D; A moustache-guard (to […]
DETROIT
Sometimes, less is more. Kathryn Bigelow’s drama revolving around the 1967 Detroit riots and one infamous incident involving Police Officers and several locals had very grand ambitions. Attempting a three act structure to depict the […]
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
One of the latest to hit Aussie shores from Cannes, Neil Gaiman fans won’t be the only ones left wanting. The prolific writer somehow only a marginal fixture in Hollywood, How to Talk to Girls […]
MARY SHELLEY
Mary Shelley may have liked her most recent biopic, but she wouldn’t have written it. Starring Elle Fanning in the lead role, together with Douglas Booth (Percy Shelley), Tom Sturridge (Lord Byron) and Bel Powley […]
SUBURBICON
Suburbicon wants you to think it’s another Coen Brothers classic. Written by the redoubtable pair, Grant Heslov, George Clooney and directed by the latter, it may look and feel like their golden era but lands […]
THOR: RAGNAROK – A CHECKLIST
Irreverent opening extravaganza of little relevance to main story – check A lauded indie/out of left field Director (Taika Waititi) to give the Marvel Cinematic Universe a much needed injection of new – check Return […]
THAT GOOD NIGHT
John Hurt’s last film yet released, itself a reminder of our own merciless mortality, That Good Night’s formidable focus is regretfully the subject of this ineffectual production. Ralph (Hurt), a reclusive, clearly affluent scribe, whose […]
CARGO
Cargo is every emerging filmmaker’s dream. A short, lauded at Tropfest, captures studio eyes with a premise more than worthy of a fully funded feature, here adapted to thrilling if flawed effect. Taking over as […]
SWEET COUNTRY
Sometimes it’s never too early to reckon a film has the makings of a classic. Sweet Country’s setting may be of a time and place yet it is a film that figures well beyond it’s […]
HAPPY DEATH DAY
Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve seen Groundhog Day more than once? The latest low-budget horror laughathon from Jason Blum begs the comparison not simply by marrying the convention with a cavalcade of […]
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Blade Runner 2049’s most enduring legacy, not unlike it’s predecessor, will no doubt be it’s ability to defy interpretation. Fairly one of the two most anticipated films of 2017, the deftness of the film’s contributions […]
LOVING VINCENT
Taking painting by numbers to a whole new level – Vincent Van Gogh is fittingly the subject of the first ever fully painted feature film. A panoply of the Dutch master’s works are intermingled throughout […]
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
Sports movies are generally more about sports than not – but this is not a sports movie. Billie Jean King’s face-off with Bobby Riggs is the stuff of tennis legend and fittingly the subject of […]
KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
If you stop to think about Kingsman for a minute, you might not like it. This holds whether you go in looking for a pure action-romp, here indulgent and purposely affronting even beyond the already […]
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