Film Review: Tomb Raider (2018)
byTo recount what actually happened in the original Tomb Raider film is a tough ask. Never mind that it rates 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, that…
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Film Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
byEach day we make choices. Perhaps they are mostly simple choices, but they are choices nonetheless. Sometimes we are forced to summon our inner…
Film Review: Jason Bourne (2016)
byAfter a nine-year hiatus, he’s back. Jason Bourne, directed by Paul Greengrass, is the direct sequel to The Bourne Ultimatum, with the screenplay by…
Film Review: The Danish Girl (2015)
bySomething smells like Oscar bait. Or maybe it’s just Tom Hooper. The Danish Girl has more than a whiff of Hooper’s usual winning formula…
Film Review: Burnt (2015)
byBradley Cooper + food. Who could ask for anything more? While our television screens remain saturated with cooking competitions, cinema is slowly getting in…
Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)
byImagine someone has a great video on their phone to show you. Do you want them to keep the phone in their pocket and…
Film Review: Ex Machina (2015)
byA great many science fiction stories have wrestled with the idea of artificial intelligence. In the case of the recent Battlestar Galactica reboot, and…
Film Review: Testament of Youth (2014)
byAdapted from her memoirs of the same name, Testament of Youth chronicles the early life of English novelist and poet Vera Brittain, whose idyllic…
Film Review: Seventh Son (2014)
bySeventh Son is pretty easy to enjoy, with a grizzly Jeff Bridges and an elegantly evil Julianne Moore at the helm. If entertainment is…
Film Review: Son Of A Gun (2014)
bySet in the seedy world of prisons and the mafia in Australia is Son of A Gun, directed by Julius Avery and with a…