Film Review: Life, Animated (2016)
byIt is not really fitting to be laughing at a boy with autism, but in Roger Ross Williams’s documentary Life, Animated, he provides the…
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Film Review: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
byOver a period of four years The Beatles went from a group of four Liverpool youths playing in the backrooms of pubs to changing…
Film Review: Spin Out (2016)
bySmall town Australia can be a strange place. The long stretches of distance and landscape breeds a distinct kind of person who anyone that…
Film Review: The Red Turtle (2016)
byHow wonderful it is to praise something with authenticity. With great pleasure I walked out of The Red Turtle, the latest Studio Ghibli production….
Film Review: Snowden (2016)
byRoughly two years have passed since Laura Poitras released her documentary Citizen Four. That first-hand account of her meetings with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden…
Film Review: Yoga Hosers (2016)
byThe cast of the new Kevin Smith film, Yoga Hosers looks just like the defense fighting for Johnny Depp in the case filed by ex-spouse Amber Heard. Longer-term…
Film Review: La Belle Saison (2015)
byLa Belle Saison is French for ‘summertime’, that time of year with the radiating sun and the slow lazy afternoons. It literally means ‘the…
Film Review: Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
byIt’s been 12 years since Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) graced the big screen, and quite a bit has changed. Bridget returns in Bridget Jones’s…
Film Review: Pete’s Dragon (2016)
byDisney’s done it again. And I don’t just mean killing off the parents in the opening scene (because Disney = #orphanlife). With director David…
Film Review: Sully (2016)
byRight now Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks both share the quality of unfussily ‘getting the job done’ with Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the subject of…