Film Review: The Snowman (2017)
byWith a decent hiatus between innings it’s with great anticipation audiences were looking forward to Tomas Alfredson’s directorial return. Coming off the back of Tinker…
Michael Fassbender
Film Review: Alien: Covenant (2017)
byYou know the feeling when you are really digging a song. There’s that one line so ambiguous and catchy it sets off your endorphins,…
Film Review: Assassin’s Creed (2016)
byAfter finding success with the cold-blooded Snowtown and blood-stained Macbeth, Australian director Justin Kurzel has found himself on a very fertile career path. But…
Film Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
byEach day we make choices. Perhaps they are mostly simple choices, but they are choices nonetheless. Sometimes we are forced to summon our inner…
Film Review: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
byThe next instalment of the quasi reboot featuring X-Men: First Class and then Days of Future Past is X-Men: Apocalypse. With the film featuring most of…
Film Review: Steve Jobs (2015)
bySteve Jobs comes to the screen in a different form than many expected and anticipated, but it still succeeds thanks to Aaron Sorkin’s sharp and…
Film Review: Macbeth (2015)
byAdaptations of William Shakespeare‘s plays are often reduced to the colourful melodramatics that The Bard’s writing exudes. A familiar stage setting brings the wordplay and character dynamics…
Film Review: Men, Women & Children (2014)
byYou are reading this on the internet, probably with another tab opened on social media. There’s also probably a phone in your pocket, which…
Film Review: Frank (2014)
byIn this eccentric comedy, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), a struggling musician, joins a weird music band led by Frank (Michael Fassbender): a man who always…
Film Review: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
bySteve McQueen really does have a thing for the embattled and imprisoned protagonist. His three feature films to date have focused on an Irish republican leading a hunger strike in Hunger, a sex-addict slipping deeper into the despair of his compulsion in Shame, and now the agonising capture and slavery of freeman Solomon Northrop in 12 Years a Slave.