“Oh highest virtue, you who lead me through these circles of transgression, at your will, do speak to me, and satisfy my longings.” The above exchange is from the 10th Canto of the first part […]
Category: Reviews
CAFE SOCIETY
Yes, you’ve seen it all before. Jesse Eisenberg, in a role Director Woody Allen would no doubt have played himself were he 40 years younger, moves to Hollywood in the guise of New York-native Bobby […]
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
I’m writing this review on a train. I looked up as the carriage sped between Kings Cross and Martin Place and saw a row of houses, in this case devoid of people. Imagine if there was […]
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
The Magnificent Seven. More like, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt. and five other guys. There’s nothing here you haven’t seen before. Except Denzel on a horse. He looks great on a horse. And Pratt. As if […]
AAAAAAAAH!
Did a disease wipe out our collective consciousness and set us back eons on the evolutionary scale? Did we ever really develop as a species beyond a simian mentality? Are a group of people in […]
WIENER-DOG
It’s OK to laugh. Such advice proves prudent with Wiener-Dog, Todd Solondz’s sickly dark comedy about an adorable canine who flits between a motley crew of eccentric homes and owners. Unassuming and always attentive, Wiener-Dog, […]
THE MIND’S EYE
The Mind’s Eye starts out like a lot of other films. It is not like other films. Zack vagrantly wanders through the wilderness until he is set upon by two cops. Pretty standard, until he […]
SNOWDEN
Oliver Stone just can’t help himself. Edward Snowden, the subject of Stone’s new biopic, is easily one of the most contentious figures in recent political memory. The centre of a very current debate, his fate […]
SULLY
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways plane was on a regular flight from New York’s LaGuardia to Charlotte, North Carolina, when the unprecedented happened. A flock of birds flew directly into the flight path, […]
DON’T BREATHE
Like any good fright, Don’t Breathe came from out of nowhere. The surprise smash, made for under $10 million, knocked Suicide Squad from the top spot at this weekend’s box office, proving that however much you hype […]
BEN-HUR
Expectations are a nasty business. The best-selling nineteenth-century novel, based on, of all things, the best-selling book of all time, the Bible, was turned into a stage-play that ran for over two decades, before being […]
WAR DOGS
Did you like Scarface? Or Goodfellas? Or The Wolf of Wall Street? Good, so did the guys who made War Dogs, and they really want you to like it too. The term ‘based on a […]
SUICIDE SQUAD
Animals’ classic hit opens with the line ‘There is a house in New Orleans, they call the rising sun.’ Suicide Squad too opens with the line, and the song, zooming in on of all things […]
EMO THE MUSICAL
Emo The Musical, as its title might suggest, likes to make fun of things. Emos. Public schools. Awkward teenagers. Religious groups. Really, really dark music. They all get a skewing in this quirky, original Australian […]
FEAR ITSELF
A film that goes bump in the night, Fear Itself is an excellent, extensive, feature visual essay on the cogs and spurs that go into making any good horror flick. Presented with deliberately unnerving narration, […]
CHRISTINE
Reviewing a film like Christine presents an endearing conundrum for any critic, here going to the very core of the film. Christine is based on an infamous live-TV event in the 1970’s that occurred on […]
SUNTAN
Switching gears midway through a film isn’t always a bad thing. Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou) arrives at his new home and passing holiday destination for many – a beautiful Greek Island, surviving with 800 residents in […]
CHEVALIER
A celebration of all things man, Chevalier’s escalating Olympics of masculine one-upmanship is something to which a lot of dudes will very much relate. Confined to a yacht in the Aegean Sea, a group of […]
FRANK & LOLA
Michael Shannon, leagues ahead of even this exultantly talented cast, nails it again in Matthew Ross’ new romantic thriller. Frank (Michael Shannon) loves Lola (Imogen Poots). Frank is a struggling chef. Lola is a struggling […]
BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN
Who is, Slenderman? Imprinted on the popular consciousness after years of online obscurity, the highly-publicized stabbing of a 12-year-old in Waukesha, Wisconsin, reportedly to appease the Slenderman, brought the little known pocket of digital folklore harshly […]
LOUIS THEROUX: MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE
What do you do when the group you’re trying to expose, as would be expected, don’t play ball? Make a film to spite them. Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie takes a bunch of frustrated documentarians, […]
JASON BOURNE
When The Maltese Falcon became a hit, the studio soon followed with a slew of trailers for similar films with footage from the then recent smash, trading almost purely off nostalgia to plug flicks that so desperately […]
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