Top 10 of 2016
Each year we are happy to compile our collective lists of what we all deem to be our Top films theatrically released in Australia…
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Film Review: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
It can be so heartening to see the quality of films on offer for the younger audience. On the animation front they’re spoilt for…
Film Review: Collateral Beauty (2016)
You shouldn’t normally judge a film by its title, but in the case of David Frankel’s Collateral Beauty it wouldn’t actually be a bad…
Film Review: Gimme Danger (2016)
There can’t be many people more revered in the history of rock and roll than Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges. A living…
Film Review: Goodbye Berlin (2016)
One of the biggest German literary successes of the last few years was a young adult novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf. Kind of like a…
Film Review: The Founder (2016)
There’s an interesting trend with current biopics to depict the shady beginnings of current market empires. There’s The Social Network charting Facebook’s beginnings as a…
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
It’s been five years since we bid farewell to Harry Potter on screen and lost our will to live through to November. Harry Potter…
Film Review: The Phoenix Incident (2015)
The tagline for The Phoenix Incident is “blurring the line between fiction and reality”. Perhaps more appropriate would be “blurring the line between entertainment and…
Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Nocturnal Animals opens with a jarring and disorienting sequence, one which is likely to fascinate and perturb viewers in equal measures. Middle aged and…
Film Review: Café Society (2016)
There’s something a little off-putting about a Woody Allen film these days. His constant relevance (at least one project a year) means the conversations…