Film Review: Personal Shopper (2016)
Personal Shopper is a film that feels incomplete. A jigsaw puzzle halfway done and in terms of coherent plot it isn’t far off Lynchian….
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Film Review: The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
Nearly everyone had to have been pleasantly surprised by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The LEGO Movie a few years ago. The jokes were sharp,…
Film Review: The Boss Baby (2017)
Alec Baldwin returns, but this time it’s not as Trump. It’s as a baby. (So actually, still close enough). Based on Marla Frazee’s picture…
Film Review: Jasper Jones (2017)
In 2009 Fremantle based writer Craig Silvey released the novel Jasper Jones and it quickly became a hit with critics and readers alike. In…
Film Review: Aquarius (2016)
Clara is many things: a retired music critic, a widow, a cancer survivor, a mother to three adult children. Now she is a stumbling…
Film Review: Silence (2016)
The silence in the title of Martin Scorsese’s most recent film refers to the silence of the voice of God, when one is alone…
Film Review: Manchester By The Sea (2016)
Few filmmakers have had such a strong and profound effect on contemporary cinema in the span of just three feature films as writer, director,…
Review: National Theatre Live: No Man’s Land (2016)
In 1975 when Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land first opened at the Old Vic in London, the “two Sirs” Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John…
Film Review: Split (2016)
Is there a more frustrating director/screenwriter than M. Night Shyamalan? He builds up our hopes with the odd gem(The Sixth Sense), lowers our expectations…
Film Review: Perfect Strangers (2016)
Without knowing much about the promotional material associated with Perfect Strangers, it is still easy to conceive of the way that this film has…