Film Review: Going in Style (2017)
Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin and Christopher Lloyd – with a cast list like that you know that Going in Style is going…
Article: Living in the Material World? An Analysis of Personal Shopper
Olivier Assayas’ psychological thriller Personal Shopper is many things – ‘easy to understand’ is not one of them. It’s a ghost story, a murder…
Film Review: A Silent Voice (2016)
The latest in a string of excellent anime films to hit Australian cinemas following last year’s Your Name and The Red Turtle comes A…
Film Review: Zach’s Ceremony (2016)
Australian cinema can now lay claim on having made its own version of Boyhood. In 2009 Aaron Petersen began the ten year journey of…
Film Review: Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
Full disclosure: I didn’t grow up with the Smurfs. My childhood had a large animated blue hole where Papa Smurf and the gang should…
Film Review: Clash (2016)
The Arab Spring. It’s one of those topics that everyone knows the name of, but very few of us over here in the West…
Film Review: A Man Called Ove (2015)
Swedish cinema can lay claim to giving the cinematic world more than its fair share of great drama. Think of Ingmar Bergman giving us the…
Film Review: The Death and Life of Otto Bloom (2016)
The career of Xavier Samuel can best be summarised with the expression “One for you. One for me”. Arguably the best of the current…
Film Review: The Dancer (2016)
It’s that time of year again when the tricolore flutters in the breeze, the air smells faintly of baguettes and the works of Albert Camus…
Film Review: The Salesman (2016)
After making what many consider to be the best film of 2011 with his masterpiece A Separation and competing for the Palme d’Or with…