North by Northwest has recently been restored and is being showcased at the Astor Theatre in a 4K DCP (digital cinema package) print. Enhancing the original 1950s production values in its VistaVision wide aspect ratio, no other Hitchcock film was so extensively filmed on location.

Set in the 1970s, Berberian Sound Studio is based around the life of a sound engineer who works on an Italian horror film. Soon life begins to imitate art. The film is practically made for film lovers, leaving the viewer dizzy with the excitement of which we crave so much from good cinema, both visually and audibly. 

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger sees Woody Allen continuing the trend to shoot in and around London instead of his classic movie home of New York City.

Without question a film about a group of women coming together before a wedding will only cause people to immediately strike similarities with the 2011 box office smash, Bridesmaids. Whether Bachelorette will reach the same acclaim, following or financial success as Bridesmaids is doubtful, and this review will not contradict this.

In a world of reboots, sequels and reimagining’s it comes as no surprise that a Bourne film without Matt Damon would hit the big screen.

It is that exciting time of the year again when Melbourne’s iconic grand dame of cinema, The Astor, releases it’s new season calendar of film.

It is as if Jane Fonda had never been away from the silver screen and here she delights us in her return to the French cinema since starring in Jean-Luc Goddard’s Tout Va Bien in 1972.

Alice Tate (Mia Farrow) has been wrapped in cotton wool for almost 16 years with her affluent husband, Doug (William Hurt). They live in a vast New York apartment with their children, the live in nanny, a maid and a swarm of personal assistants who cater to Alice’s every whim and need.

Someone in Hollywood believes in making a major movie star out of Robert Pattinson. After scoring millions of fans from the Twilight films, the brooding young star is now being lined up in a series of high profile dramas.

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy is notable for being the first Woody Allen film starring Mia Farrow, who would go on to be his muse on and off the screen in thirteen films.