Film Review: Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
The first Mission Impossible was a forgettable film, but there’s a part that stuck in the cultural memory and set the series on its…
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Film Review: The Wife (2017)
For too long, women’s abilities, ambitions and achievements have been sidelined by, and for, men. And for too long, this has been masked and…
Film Review: Whitney (2018)
Directed by Kevin Macdonald, Whitney is the most recent documentary about the life and struggles of singer Whitney Houston. It is released only a…
Film Review: Funny Cow (2017)
Funny Cow is the stage name, and only credited name, of the film’s heroine. A dishevelled soul, battling low self worth, blatant sexism and…
Film Review: RBG (2018)
Gender Equality Advocate. Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Notorious RBG. At 85-years-old, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become somewhat of an unexpected pop…
Film Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Bust out the champers. It’s time to party because Mamma Mia is back. With the stage musical returning to Melbourne just last week, it’s…
Review: National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2018)
I can only imagine how daunting it must be to contemplate adapting the Scottish play for stage and then wonder how on earth you…
Film Review: Skyscraper (2018)
The Rock continues to cash in with his latest blockbuster, Die Hard Skyscraper. Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball, We’re the Millers,…
Film Review: What Will People Say (2017)
Iram Haq’s What Will People Say is a harrowingly personal film. Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) is a 16-year-old Norwegian who’s susceptible to the allures of…
Film Review: Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017)
“There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. The cardinal sin is dullness” – Frank Capra Jill Bilcock has been editing films for over…