Jake Gyllenhaal knows what a career-defining moment looks like – he’s had several. Hitting the big-time at twenty with cult favourite Donnie Darko, this generation’s Dustin Hoffman has continued to refine his image across any […]
Category: Reviews
Director Neil Armfield on Holding the Man and why it’s important
Note: spoilers “There was a time, it seemed not so long ago, when your friends at the ages of 30 and 40 were dying, people were going to funerals week after week. It’s really important […]
VACATION
Remember those family vacations you used to take as a kid? Remember those movies about family vacations you used to watch as a kid? Did your childhood also involve long, music-filled car trips where you […]
THE GIFT
Joel Edgerton has a lot of options open to him. Riding the wave of the Australian hit, the Animal Kingdom star can and has gone for a number of big-budget Hollywood roles, in Exodus: Gods and Kings, […]
ROBOT OVERLORDS
This had the potential to be an amazing movie. With the opening line already a slap in the face to conventional wisdom and logical plot development, on par with 2012‘s “the neutrinos have mutated” – this sci-fi […]
7 CHINESE BROTHERS
The lyrics of R.E.M’s lesser-known hit ‘7 Chinese Brothers,’ for which the film is named, do little to make sense of this elusive comedy, or at least make sense of the title. But that’s kind of […]
IRRATIONAL MAN
Woody Allen continues his love-affair with Dostoyevsky in the 2015 entry from the multi-talented creator who reliably churns out one feature every calendar year. This time, Allen’s muse is Emma Stone, well-cast as the deft […]
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
The latest popular ’60s TV show to get a modern remake, director Guy Ritchie has emerged from a series of awful missteps with a glitzy, stylish, action-filled adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. American super-agent Napoleon […]
Tripping on Sebastian Silva
With only six feature films under his belt, the thirty-something filmmaker Sebastian Silva, is enjoying a retrospective at MIFF and discussed his 2013 feature ‘Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus’. “It’s a movie based on […]
In The Mouth of Madness
Outspoken journalist, Michael Ware, shakes the foundations with his documentary, ‘Only The Dead’. “You’re watching one man’s descent into dark madness, but that would be the most wafer-thin reading of the film.” Australian journalist and […]
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
If you could star in your favourite movie, would you do it? Well these guys did. 11 year-olds Chris, Eric and Jayson saw cult classic Raiders of the Lost Ark on its initial release and […]
DANNY SAYS
A jukebox movie of sorts, Danny Says takes us through The Beatles, The Stooges, Iggy Pop and any number of famed 60’s/70’s acts, told through the eyes and experience of behind the scenes music icon […]
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Idol. Visionary. Demon. Saviour. Prick. A very complex picture of Apple CEO and inventor Steve Jobs gets painted in Alex Gibney’s biopic, one ofmany feature films and documentaries made following the controversial figure’s death. The […]
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION
The best Mission: Impossible since the original, Rogue Nation does not disappoint. Setting a high bar with an already widely-publicized pre-credits sequence where a presumably 53 year-old Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) hangs off the side […]
SELF/LESS
In 2009, Buffy creator Joss Whedon captured our imaginations with the short-lived Dollhouse, a sci-fi action series where the minds of deceased, frail, creative and/or uber-rich people could be implanted into living hosts or dolls, […]
RUBEN GUTHRIE
“Australians don’t want to be told we’re doing something wrong… we like to see ourselves on screen, but not criticized.” Brendan Cowell addressed a huge gathering at the Sydney Apple Store following a screening of […]
Song of the Sea
Song of the Sea had its Irish premiere earlier this evening at the Galway Film Fleadh. Glen Falkenstein sent us this review from the film’s Australian premiere at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Films routinely […]
Magic Mike XXL
Arriving at the Magic Mike XXL premiere, we were greeted by a line of shirtless men with more six-packs on display than a Dan Murphy’s on Origin night. Waiting nearby while my friend took a […]
Terminator Genisys
He’s back. A Terminator sequel/prequel/reboot/uncategorized instalment being inevitable, Director Alan Taylor (Thor 2) has gone the route of the recent Star Trek adaptations and set the summer blockbuster in an alternate yet very familiar timeline. […]
Mr Holmes – Clueless, my dear Watson
Based on Mitch Cullin’s novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, Sir Ian McKellen plays a 93-year-old Sherlock, wiling away his retirement on the Dover coast and slowly losing his great faculties. Replacing Dr Watson […]
OUT OF NATURE
The second feature from Norwegian star/writer/director, Ole Giaever, Out of Nature chronicles the weekend of frustrated officer-worker/family man, Martin (Ole Giaever), as he embarks on a solo mountain hike. Told through the narration of his inner […]
THE FALLING
The characters in this film spend most of its running time feeling disorientated and deeply confused… and so do we. The Falling stars Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams as Lydia, the first of many students […]
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