Film Review: Mistress America (2015)
Following his 2012 indie hit Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach reteams with his co-writer and star, Greta Gerwig for Mistress America. Having tackled differences between…
Film Review: Burnt (2015)
Bradley Cooper + food. Who could ask for anything more? While our television screens remain saturated with cooking competitions, cinema is slowly getting in…
Film Review: Miss You Already (2015)
Any woman who has ever experienced a troubled relationship with her best friend is likely to identify with Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss You Already. Hardwicke…
Film Review: Cut Snake (2014)
More than a full year after it debuted at MIFF, Cut Snake finally has its cinematic release in Australia. A gritty local crime thriller…
Film Review: The Visit (2015)
Most people know M. Night Shyamalan as the guy who peaked early with The Sixth Sense, trotted out some semi-respectable storylines in Unbreakable, Signs,…
Film Review: American Ultra (2015)
Let’s smoke some weed and kick some arse! That’s not quite so much the premise of American Ultra, but more likely something the filmmakers…
Film Review: Graceful Girls (2015)
Anyone who has ever participated in dance should appreciate Olivia Peniston Bird’s debut feature Graceful Girls. On the contrary, if exaggerated smiles, sequins, and…
Film Review: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
The young adult science fiction/dystopian future thing is like, so hot right now, but the overabundance of films in this genre in recent years has…
Film Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Winner of this year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl promised to be a tearjerker, and…
Film Review: The Gift (2015)
Kids will be kids, and kids can be cruel, but karma’s a bitch so be mindful at school. If Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut was…