Film Review: Zach’s Ceremony (2016)
byAustralian cinema can now lay claim on having made its own version of Boyhood. In 2009 Aaron Petersen began the ten year journey of…
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Film Review: The Country Doctor (2016)
byFilms predicated on the chasm between city and country people can often fall into the territory of twee without much effort – farmyard geese…
Film Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
byJust for a second let’s put to one side the claims of whitewashing that have dogged Rupert Sanders’ Hollywood reboot of Ghost in the…
Film Review: Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
byFull disclosure: I didn’t grow up with the Smurfs. My childhood had a large animated blue hole where Papa Smurf and the gang should…
Film Review: Clash (2016)
byThe Arab Spring. It’s one of those topics that everyone knows the name of, but very few of us over here in the West…
Article: Just how Lego is The LEGO Batman Movie?
byThe new Lego film, The LEGO Batman Movie certainly looks like Lego, but it doesn’t feel like the bright, bold bricks we love from…
Film Review: The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
byNearly everyone had to have been pleasantly surprised by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The LEGO Movie a few years ago. The jokes were sharp,…
Film Review: A Man Called Ove (2015)
bySwedish cinema can lay claim to giving the cinematic world more than its fair share of great drama. Think of Ingmar Bergman giving us the…
Film Review: Power Rangers (2017)
byThink of a TV show, movie, or even a toy from the 90s and there’s a good chance it’s being remade or rebooted into…
Film Review: Life (2017)
byA good sci-fi looks into the future and tells you what could be. A great sci-fi looks into the future and can also tell…