Film Review: A Royal Night Out (2015)
It’s so nice to see extras getting into their roles. All too often, extras in crowds betray a lacklustre commitment to chanting, laughing or…
Film Review: While We’re Young (2015)
While writer-director Noah Baumbach brought to us the wistfulness of youth in Frances Ha, this time he has chosen to take a step back from this…
Film Review: Chappie (2015)
From the time he burst onto the scene with his memorable pseudo-apartheid piece District 9, South African director Neil Blomkamp has been on a…
Film Review: Manny Lewis (2015)
Much-loved comedian Carl Barron caused quite the to-do in July last year when he took the stage in Sydney, as audience members soon became…
Film Review: Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Never has a woman’s love of dogs been expressed with such bafflement as Mila Kunis does in Andy and Lana Wachowksi‘s Jupiter Ascending. While one might…
Film Review: Citizenfour (2014)
Edward Snowden, or Ed, as he likes to be called, is the iconic spy of the 21st century. In January 2013, he began sending…
Film Review: The Imitation Game (2014)
“Sometimes it is the people no-one imagines anything of who do the things no-one can imagine.” Thus is the theme for director Morten Tyldum’s…
Film Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit series has thrown almost everyone into mutually exclusive camps: the haters and the indifferent. For what is essentially a bit…
Film Review: Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Tim Burton’s films have always held the kind of decoration you’d expect on a Christmas tree, and bar The Nightmare Before Christmas, this is…
Film Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
You may be a bit perplexed about the choice of Chris Columbus‘ adaptation of JK Rowling‘s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone for a memorable…