Film Review: Jasper Jones (2017)
byIn 2009 Fremantle based writer Craig Silvey released the novel Jasper Jones and it quickly became a hit with critics and readers alike. In…
Current Theatrical Releases
Film Review: Aquarius (2016)
byClara is many things: a retired music critic, a widow, a cancer survivor, a mother to three adult children. Now she is a stumbling…
Film Review: Bitter Harvest (2017)
byAbout twenty minutes into George Meneluk’s Bitter Harvest, you can’t help but feel the film is moving slightly fast. Barely developed characters are killed…
Film Review: T2 Trainspotting (2017)
byI’ll answer the first question on everyone’s minds. No, this isn’t another cash grabbing, exploitative sequel. In Danny Boyle’s hands how could T2 be…
Film Review: Fist Fight (2017)
byThe setting is the final day of a lower class public high school, the stars are Charlie Day and Ice Cube, the jokes are…
Film Review: The Family (2016)
byWhen much of our media is dominated by fad and ‘false news’, it is quite interesting to see a film about a truly false…
Film Review: The Great Wall (2016)
byThe Great Wall opens with prologue text that gives us some information about the Great Wall of China. It decidedly tells us that there…
Film Review: Hidden Figures (2016)
byThe current fascination with American race relations continues like never before in Oscar season 2017. The pallid white-fest of the previous years climaxed famously…
Film Review: Fences (2016)
by“Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in” – August Wilson, Fences. Boundaries, borders, divisions, and…
Film Analysis: Scorsese’s Cinema of Religion
byThere is no doubt that Martin Scorsese is most renowned for his Italian-American crime dramas of the ‘70s and ’80s. It would not be surprising…