Film Review: The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
byThe world is veering off its axis. The moon has the blue shimmer of a stove-top burner. Clocks have stopped working. And in the…
Bill Murray
Film Review: Isle of Dogs (2018)
byAnimation is the perfect medium for Wes Anderson. The auteur of pastel symmetry likes to mould the world to fit his preferred aesthetic, so…
Film Review: Before I Fall (2017)
byAfter a dearth of teen films in 2016 (with the exception of dystopian sci-fi in Allegiant and The 5th Wave), 2017 is already off…
Film Review: The Jungle Book (2016)
byRudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is brought to life in Disney’s first live-action adaptation of the year. Justin Marks‘ screenplay is a darker take on…
Film Review: Aloha (2015)
byAloha is the latest film offering from writer/ director Cameron Crowe, and while it has all the elements of a good film it just…
Film Review: St Vincent (2014)
bySt Vincent is a great opportunity for Bill Murray to do what Bill Murray does best. But, what’s the issue with that? This is…
Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
byWhen SNL recently made a fake trailer for a fake new Wes Anderson film called The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders and quoted The…
Film Review: The Monuments Men (2014)
bySet during the closing days of World War 2, the latest directorial effort from George Clooney details the titular group who were tasked with…
Film Review: A Glimpse Inside The Mind of Charles Swan III (2012)
byThe best way to describe Charles Swan III is that it feels like an unfunny episode of Family Guy, in which the plot walks off on tangents so wild that it’s easy to forget the primary storyline.
Film Review: Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
byBill Murray is an absolute God of the film world, a Mecca of Cool, the King of Kings, and he’s developed into quite the actor in his old age. In Hyde Park on Hudson Mr Murray tackles FDR in an interesting time in his life, a week in 1939 when the King and Queen of England (Elizabeth and Bertie) make the first trip to America of any royal, to ask for support in the looming war.