Film Review: Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 9 March 2017 Kong: Skull Island is a strange beast of a movie. It is the third American…
Film Review: Manchester By The Sea (2016)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 31 January 2017 Few filmmakers have had such a strong and profound effect on contemporary cinema in the…
Film Review: Dial M For Murder (1954)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 18 July 2016 Produced at the height of the first 3D phase in 1953 (which for anyone who…
Film Review: The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 8 July 2016 Based on the adventure novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs between 1912 and 1965, the latest Hollywood…
Film Review: Maggie’s Plan (2015)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 4 July 2016 Maggie’s Plan has an extremely strong pedigree. Writer/Director Rebecca Lee still has some strong indie…
Film Review: Goldstone (2016)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 27 June 2016 Filmmaker Ivan Sen returns to the world of his previous film Mystery Road with his new…
Film Review: Warcraft (2016)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 13 June 2016 Video game adaptations in the movies are a strange beast. The nineties brought us the…
Film Review: Pawno (2015)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 18 April 2016 Set on a single day in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and focusing on a…
Film Review: Youth (2015)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 24 December 2015 After his Oscar winning critical darling The Great Beauty, Italian writer/director Paolo Sorrentino delivers another…
Film Review: 99 Homes (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 18 November 2015 “When you work for me, you’re mine”. A searing critique on American capitalism framed around…