Film Review: Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Kong: Skull Island is a strange beast of a movie. It is the third American reboot featuring “The Eighth Wonder of the World”. While…
Film Review: Manchester By The Sea (2016)
Few filmmakers have had such a strong and profound effect on contemporary cinema in the span of just three feature films as writer, director,…
Film Review: Dial M For Murder (1954)
Produced at the height of the first 3D phase in 1953 (which for anyone who was sentient at the time mercifully only lasted the…
Film Review: The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Based on the adventure novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs between 1912 and 1965, the latest Hollywood adaptation of Tarzan, as is the post-Dark Knight custom now,…
Film Review: Maggie’s Plan (2015)
Maggie’s Plan has an extremely strong pedigree. Writer/Director Rebecca Lee still has some strong indie cred from last decade’s The Ballad of Jack and…
Film Review: Goldstone (2016)
Filmmaker Ivan Sen returns to the world of his previous film Mystery Road with his new thriller Goldstone, which continues the adventures of Aboriginal detective…
Film Review: Warcraft (2016)
Video game adaptations in the movies are a strange beast. The nineties brought us the likes of Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon and Streetfighter….
Film Review: Pawno (2015)
Set on a single day in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and focusing on a number of its more colorful inhabitants, Pawno marks the…
Film Review: Youth (2015)
After his Oscar winning critical darling The Great Beauty, Italian writer/director Paolo Sorrentino delivers another masterpiece with Youth, a meditation on what it means…
Film Review: 99 Homes (2014)
“When you work for me, you’re mine”. A searing critique on American capitalism framed around the financial crisis, 99 Homes establishes its intensity from…