Film Review: Robin Hood (2018)
byAs Otto Bathurst‘s Robin Hood begins, Friar Tuck (Tim Minchin) implores us to forget everything we think we know about Robin Hood. It’s an ambitious thought. You…
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Film Review: Ready Player One (2018)
byWith Easter around the corner, it’s only fair that we get to watch a film tribute to Easter eggs. I’m talking about the pop…
Film Review: Una (2016)
byAdapted from David Harrower’s play, Blackbird, Una directed by Benedict Andrews, is a film intended to push buttons. This is Andrews’ first feature and good…
Film Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
byIt doesn’t seem like too long ago, but only last year Disney breathed fresh life into cinema’s greatest ever space political drama. With four billion…
Film Review: Mississippi Grind
byThere’s little better advertising for the writing of a character and an actor’s performance than being happy to watch them do almost nothing, making…
Film Review: Black Sea (2014)
byThere will come a day when all the Nazi gold stashed away around the world will have been found, and scriptwriters will need to…
Film Review: Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
byWith a title like Exodus: Gods and Kings, you can be pretty sure you know what you are going to get with this film;…
Thievish Thursdays: Animal Kingdom (2010)
byFilm Blerg’s companion piece to The Straits (airing Thursday nights on ABC) focuses on crime in the Australian media. Week 3 of Thievish Thursdays looks…
Film Review: Animal Kingdom (2010)
byBy James Madden. Viewed 09.06.10 Amidst the buzz and the hoopla that so rarely hits the Australian film industry comes David Michod’s feature film…
Recently and lazily viewed
byOkay, so there’s a lot that I’ve seen of late, and like the lazy person that I was when I started this blog with…