Film Review: Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
byThor has always been the weird Avenger. Even in a team that includes smartarses in suits of armour, super soldiers, giant green rage monsters,…
Anthony Hopkins
Film Review: Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
byIt’s been ten years – yes, an entire decade has gone by! – since the world first got a glimpse of what was to…
Film Review: Kidnapping Mr Heineken (2014)
byDaniel Alfredson’s movie about the abduction and ransom of the Heineken brewery CEO in 1983 seems, despite an excellent cast, somehow less than the…
Film Review: Red 2 (2013)
byIt would be easy to dismiss this as an $84 million waste of time. Going with the motto, ‘bigger is better’, Red 2 (penned by Jon and Erich Hoeber and based on Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Marvel characters) can never be accused of being dull or slow, but they might have gone a bit too big.
Film Review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
byFinally getting a theatrical release in Australia (strangely after the release of the two films Woody Allen made after it; Midnight In Paris and…
Film Review: Hitchcock (2012)
byAfter the premiere of his highly successful film North by Northwest, all Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) can focus on are critics claiming he’s over the…
Wednesdays with Woody: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
byYou Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger sees Woody Allen continuing the trend to shoot in and around London instead of his classic movie…
12 Days of Christmas Films: Dr Seuss’ The Grinch (2000)
byWhile Dickens’ Scrooge was particularly brooding and harsh character who ultimately seeks redemption, Dr. Seuss’s Grinch is a diabolical, soulless, and cruel being.