Film Review: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
byDirector Eli Roth takes a well deserved break from traumatising adults and embarks on a new challenge with The House With a Clock in…
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Film Review: Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017)
by“There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. The cardinal sin is dullness” – Frank Capra Jill Bilcock has been editing films for over…
Film Review: Ocean’s 8 (2018)
byWhy ask eleven men (or twelve, or thirteen) to do a job that will only take eight women, and who will do it in…
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,…
Film Review: The Dinner (2017)
byHerman Koch, a Dutch writer and actor, wrote a novel called Het diner in 2009 which turned out to be a runaway success. Becoming…
Film Review: Brooklyn (2015)
byThe Oscars are almost in session, and we Australians know all too well what that means: February film releases. The highly-acclaimed Brooklyn arrives on…
Film Review: Carol (2015)
byCarol, directed by Todd Haynes, is a sumptuous reverie. Adapted by Phyllis Nagy from the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, the…
Film Review: Truth (2015)
byFew people might think documents are exciting, and fewer still that a story about them would make for a compelling Hollywood movie. Yet there…
Film Review: Cinderella (2015)
bySixty-five years after the Disney animated classic, director Kenneth Branagh has created a Cinderella for 21st century audiences. A timeless fairy tale, there isn’t…
Film Review: National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)
byThere is a certain intimacy to watching live theater, one that can often refuse to translate to cinema. Under Benedict Andrews’ direction, National Theatre…