Film Review: Denial (2016)
byDonald Trump and his “fake news” catchcry has recently forced the media and public into a discussion on truth and objectivity. But Trump and…
Film Review: Colossal (2016)
byColossal is the third feature film from writer-director Nacho Vigalondo, and is part comedy, part thriller, part fantasy. Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is broke, jobless and…
Film Review: Frantz (2016)
byIn crisp black and white, and unsettling for most of its long running time, autuer François Ozon has remade Ernest Lubitsch’s The Broken Lullaby (76 mins) into Frantz (113…
Film Review: Personal Shopper (2016)
byPersonal Shopper is a film that feels incomplete. A jigsaw puzzle halfway done and in terms of coherent plot it isn’t far off Lynchian….
Film Review: A Silent Voice (2016)
byThe 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: Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
byPicking up eighteen months after the events of the last season, the movie adaptation of ABC series Dance Academy (2010-2013) sees Tara (Xenia Goodwin)…
Film Review: Zach’s Ceremony (2016)
byAustralian 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: The Country Doctor (2016)
byFilms predicated on the chasm between city and country people can often fall into the territory of twee without much effort – farmyard geese…
Film Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
byJust for a second let’s put to one side the claims of whitewashing that have dogged Rupert Sanders’ Hollywood reboot of Ghost in the…
Film Review: Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
byFull disclosure: I didn’t grow up with the Smurfs. My childhood had a large animated blue hole where Papa Smurf and the gang should…