Film Review: A Few Less Men (2017)
The nottly anticipated follow-up to 2011 British-Australian co-production and terribly flat, worn-out “comedy” trying desperately to cash in on the success of both the…
Film Review: Jasper Jones (2017)
In 2009 Fremantle based writer Craig Silvey released the novel Jasper Jones and it quickly became a hit with critics and readers alike. In…
Review: National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land (2016)
In 1975 when Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land first opened at the Old Vic in London, the “two Sirs” Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John…
Film Review: Le Ride (2016)
It seems impossible, living in a nation so inured with its sporting heroes that the names of the first team to tackle the Tour…
Film Review: Office Christmas Party (2016)
Buoyed by the increasing cult status of such classic Christmas fair as Elf, Die Hard and Love, Actually (many screenings of such films in…
Film Review: American Honey (2016)
One word that comes to mind when thinking about the filmography of English director Andrea Arnold is atmospheric. Her films feel more like set…
Film Review: Café Society (2016)
There’s something a little off-putting about a Woody Allen film these days. His constant relevance (at least one project a year) means the conversations…
Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
When SNL recently made a fake trailer for a fake new Wes Anderson film called The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders and quoted The…
Film Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Avengers fans rejoice, there is a new instalment to the successful Marvel Studios franchise and it packs quite a punch. Super soldier Steve Rogers…
Film Review: The Lego Movie (2014)
Once upon a time, as an adult, one would have been judged and potentially scoffed at for going to see a kids movie without…