Film Review: Sully (2016)
Right now Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks both share the quality of unfussily ‘getting the job done’ with Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the subject of…
rough night
Film Review: Nerve (2016)
“Most things aren’t black and white. The internet is neither good nor bad; it just depends on how you use it” say Ariel Schulman…
Film Review: Free State of Jones (2016)
October 1862. The second year of the bloodiest conflict in US history tears apart the fabric of the country as it feeds steadily more…
Film Review: Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Directed by Travis Knight, Kubo and the Two Strings is the fourth animated feature film from the Laika studios. Voiced by Charlize Theron, Matthew…
Film review: Broke (2016)
‘How the mighty have fallen’, when a footballer errs and winds up a disgrace. For Australians, to see their heroes of the field fall…
Film Review: Indignation (2016)
Indignation, based on the 2008 novel by Philip Roth, begins with Marcus Messner’s philosophical musings on death. He considers how every choice we make…
Film Review: Suicide Squad (2016)
In Hollywood blockbuster terms, we’re now living in an age of the cinema of moments. When you look at the biggest films out there,…
Film Review: Embrace (2016)
“Why do so many people hate their bodies and what can we do about it?” After having three children, Taryn Brumfitt hated how she…
Film Review: Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Set in the dense Amazon rainforest is Colombia’s entry for Best Foreign Film at last year’s Academy Awards, Embrace of the Serpent. Based on…
Film Review: Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
After the immense success of John le Carre’s The Night Manager earlier this year on the small screen, following on its heels is Susanna White‘s large-screen rendering of Our Kind…