Film Review: The Shallows (2016)
Nancy is getting some alone time. A medical student spooked out of her studies after being unable to prevent her mother from succumbing to…
Film Review: Lights Out (2016)
It’s a simple concept. A creature that inhabits the shadows and cannot visibly exist in the light. It breeds a certain kind of paranoia,…
Film Review: Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
After the immense success of John le Carre’s The Night Manager earlier this year on the small screen, following on its heels is Susanna White‘s large-screen rendering of Our Kind…
Film Review: Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
Indigenous Australian director Wayne Blair has made quite a name for himself in Australia in recent years for the feel-good hit The Sapphires in…
Film Review: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
Fourteen years on from the original Ice Age, it’s hard to believe that we have now come to the fifth of the franchise, Collision Course,…
Film Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
If you haven’t understood the appeal of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by the age of twelve, you’ve probably missed the boat. The teenage bit…
Film Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
There aren’t many films for which I smile at the mere thought of them. It’s just so rare to find a comedy that hits…
Film Review: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
This certainly isn’t Alice’s Wonderland – that quaint dreamscape of Lewis Carroll’s, where twisted logic and thoughts aloud craft both perfect linguistic sense and utter…
Review: National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2015)
It’s safe to say that this is not something to take your kids to. After all, as they say, kids can be cruel, and…
Film Review: The Daughter (2015)
In fictional worlds, there are no jolly returns to childhood homes. It can be accepted that, after a long absence, a man now grown…