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 […]
ELLE
To anyone increasingly frustrated by a lack of originality or who reckons cinema today is ‘too safe,’ Elle has you covered. Opening with the brutal home invasion and sexual assault of its title character (Isabelle […]
DIRECTOR DAVID FARRIER TALKS ‘TICKLED’
“It’s about a tickling competition but then it gets a lot darker and I don’t really want them to know anything more than that.” New Zealand journalist, TV personality, andTickled director/star David Farrier sat down to […]
KILLING GROUND
Silence is golden for a good horror film. Killing Ground isn’t the first shocker to be filmed in the isolation of the Australian bush, and based on the success of the formula, deployed to no […]
BORN TO BE BLUE
Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker biopic had the opportunity to riff off any number of Chet Baker tunes and titles. The Whitlams’ ‘Thank you (for loving me at my worst)’ might have suited even better. Thankfully […]
HIGH-RISE
It’s none too helpful when a film’s characters, and in this case its narrator, in no uncertain terms tell us exactly what we should think about it. An adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel expositing […]
THE NEON DEMON
The Nicolas Winding Refn film for people who don’t like Nicolas Winding Refn, in The Neon Demon his, particular way of doing things, just works. A Director conversely lambasted and celebrated for heralding a counter-intuitively […]
BEING 17
To put it bluntly, it’s a very touching movie that could have done a lot more with less. French drama Being 17 chronicles some months in the lives of teenagers and high school adversaries Damien […]
THE FAMILY FANG
A lesser film spends a lot of time explaining itself. A good film doesn’t have to. Jason Bateman’s second feature directorial effort has an unusual, and to its credit original premise which it spends a […]
PROOF
“It’s a beautiful film, it’s an absolutely beautiful film. I felt like I was almost watching another person that’s how long ago it was.” Proof star Hugo Weaving joined Margaret Pomeranz and the crew of […]
SPLIT – SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO
The first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Split just landed and it’s got a lot of people excited. Following on from the Director’s (once dubbed the next Spielberg) 2015 low-budget, critical hit The Visit, also […]
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER
Do you like shows about serial killers, sociopaths and those pesky, none-too-slightly unhinged stalwarts of horror flicks that go bump in the night? Mining our collective fascination revived 25 years ago with The Silence of […]
GHOSTBUSTERS
Did you watch Ghostbusters on TV last week? The classic 80’s comedy doing the rounds on the networks in light of its remake/reimagining/reboot’s largely redundant release? Then you might want to wait a little bit […]
STAR TREK BEYOND
Star Trek remains one of the most popular shows on television because, like its crew, we were always willing to let the Enterprise take us somewhere new, somewhere shocking, and in Star Trek Beyond, somewhere […]
BETRAYAL
Chemistry can make or break a show – in Betrayal, it’s everything, and deployed to sublime effect. It’s a tale as old as time – three people, established friends and lovers, outwardly in happy, committed […]
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
As if flipping through the pages of the iconic strip, the Hayes Theatre Company has joyously brought Charlie Brown and co to life. Simply staged with a local cast of six, the musical’s episodic approach […]
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
Margot Robbie was never just going to be a damsel in distress. In the latest adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan series, the Australian is Jane, who, having left the wilds of Africa, is now ensconced in dreary 19th […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
You can always rely on Hollywood to up the ante. Finding new landmarks to destroy was never going to be enough. Teasing the annihilation of a rebuilt, reinforced White House, only one stop in a […]
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP
Austen-lite – the author’s trademark disdain for polite society is on full display in Whit Stillman’s condensed, easily consumable ode to the Bath legend’s inestimable literary canon. Any fan of Austen or Wilde alike will […]
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