Film Review: Land of Mine (2015)
Beginning with the title, Land of Mine is not a particularly subtle film, but it is layered, tense and moving, and there’s much pleasure…
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Film Review: Swiss Army Man (2016)
It’s a pleasure to go into Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Swiss Army Man and see recognisable actors in different roles. Daniel Radcliffe has been spanning…
Film Review: Maggie’s Plan (2015)
Maggie’s Plan has an extremely strong pedigree. Writer/Director Rebecca Lee still has some strong indie cred from last decade’s The Ballad of Jack and…
Film Review: The Measure of a Man (2015)
The French title for Stéphane Brizé’s latest film is ‘Le Loi du Marche’ which, when literally translated, means ‘Market Law’. This title does give…
Film review: The BFG (2016)
Spielberg is a virtuoso of inclusive ‘big’ cinema. His broad demographic appeal spans all ages. While adult stories have been his focus of late,…
Film Review: Central Intelligence (2016)
“Saving the world takes a little Hart and a big Johnson” says the tagline of Central Intelligence, the new film by Rawson Marshall Thurber…
Film Review: Goldstone (2016)
Filmmaker Ivan Sen returns to the world of his previous film Mystery Road with his new thriller Goldstone, which continues the adventures of Aboriginal detective…
Film Review: The Wait (2015)
For audiences of the mainstream who subsist on the endless supply of samey films that tumble from the Hollywood conveyor belt, European cinema can…
Film Review: Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
The year is 1980 – a gallon of petrol costs 79 cents. The Empire Strikes Back makes the greatest parental reveal in film history,…
Film Review: Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
Fourteen years on from the original Ice Age, it’s hard to believe that we have now come to the fifth of the franchise, Collision Course,…