Film Review: Avengers: Endgame (2019)
byThere’s never been a film quite like Endgame because the Marvel Cinematic Universe stands alone in the history of blockbuster entertainment. Eventually the superhero…
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Film Review – Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
bySicario: Day of the Soldado (Spanish for ‘Hitman: Day of the Soldier’) is the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s much acclaimed tension-filled, dispassionately patient, action-thriller Sicario….
Film Review: Deadpool 2 (2018)
byIn 2016 in these very pages I wrote about how Deadpool was breaking the dull, factory-like mould of superhero movies. I wondered if audiences…
Film Review: Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
byTen years and eighteen films have built towards Infinity War. This has to be one of the most ambitious undertakings that anyone has ever…
Film Review: Only the Brave (2017)
by“All men are created equal. But then, a few became firefighters.” – Joe Biden Anyone who grows up in country Australia knows there are few…
Film Review: Hail, Caesar! (2016)
byIt has been a while since co-directors and co-writers Joel and Ethan Coen have made a straight up comedy – eight years in fact,…
Film Review: Sicario (2015)
bySicario (Spanish for ‘hitman’) is another slow-burn, tension-filled thriller for director Denis Villeneuve. Following in the footsteps of the simmering, morally ambivalent Prisoners, the…
Film Review: Everest (2015)
byEverest is based on best-selling book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, a member of the 1996 expedition, a character in the film and…
Film Review: Labor Day (2013)
byJason Reitman has an impressive resume to date and it’s full of unconventional romances: America’s love of smoking in Thank You for Smoking; coping with…
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…