Film Review: Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
byIf you’re willing to suppress rational thought, Fast & Furious 6 is exhilarating and often humorous, sometimes unintentionally so.
Film Review: The Great Gatsby (2013)
byThough the highly anticipated release of Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation has been met with stern objection, lovers of the novel will find this newly imagined The Great Gatsby plays more like a love letter to Fitzgerald, thanking him for creating a tragically beautiful tale that transcends the ages and is relevant in a social context, even today.
Film Review: One Mile Above (2011)
byDirected byJiayi Du, and adapted from a book by Chang Chia-Lu and Cheng Hsiao-Che, the film is quietly absorbing and beautifully shot, and suggests that with enough motivation we harbour resilience and tenacity beyond what we thought possible.
Film Review: Happiness Never Comes Alone (2012)
byHappiness Never Comes Alone is a perfect date night movie with a fantastic soundtrack, many references to cinema classics such as Casablanca, West Side Story and Singin’ in the Rain, and old school physical comedy so perfectly timed it elicited a rare out loud chortle from this humble reviewer on more than one occasion.
Film Review: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2012)
byA rock doco in the spirit of The Devil and Daniel Johnston and Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is at both immersing and terribly bemusing, leaving the audience to wonder what could have been when the curtain is finally drawn on the would-be super group.
Film Review: The Hangover Part III (2013)
byThe Hangover Part III sings a bit of a different tune to the two films that came before it – there’s no big night out, no drugs, no booze and no hangover to deal with. This is a heist film with the same goofy, everything goes wrong, chaotic flavour we’ve seen before.
Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
byThere have been numerous films exploring the various impacts reverberating from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but The Reluctant Fundamentalist, directed by Mira Nair, adopts a different, more internally-driven perspective.
Cultastrophe at Cinema Nova
byBringing his sense for the ridiculous and celebrating the uncelebratable, writer, curator and educator Zak Hepburn has come to Cinema Nova with a program of cult classics for your late Friday night enjoyment.
Film Review: Dead Man Down (2013)
byThe slow intertwining of these narrative threads unfortunately gifts the audience with a particularly unfocused and muddled film. Dead Man Down seemingly wants to present itself as possessing a complex story with in-depth characters. B
Film Review: Snitch (2013)
byI think everyone who saw The Scorpion King way back in 2002 was a little surprised that The Rock didn’t get himself an Oscar nomination. Of…