Review: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
byKing Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is not a role lightly undertaken. Playing any of Shakespeare’s…
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Film Review: Like Crazy (2016)
byNot to be confused with the exceptional 2011 film starring Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin, Like Crazy (or to use its Italian title, La Pazza…
Film Review: Ella (2016)
byNot to be confused with Elle, the hard to watch rape revenge film from Paul Verhoeven which is out in cinemas at the same…
Film Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
byEach day we make choices. Perhaps they are mostly simple choices, but they are choices nonetheless. Sometimes we are forced to summon our inner…
Film Review: Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2016)
byIn 2004 Australian author Helen Gardner published Joe Cinque’s Consolation. Gardner’s seminal work reported on events that happened in Canberra in 2004, when Anu…
Film Review: Inferno (2016)
byTo steal a quote from Ben “Yatzee” Croshaw – Dante’s Inferno is history’s first recorded work of self-insert fan fiction. Born 750 years ago,…
Film Review: Francofonia (2015)
byIn the historical community there’s a joke that all of Russian history can be summed up in five words: ‘But then it got worse’….
Film Review: Zero Days (2016)
by‘War. War never changes’ comes the saying that begins every instalment of the Fallout games. It’s a strange state of affairs that the most…
Film Review: Under the Shadow (2016)
byThe Iran-Iraq war started in September of 1980 and lasted eight years. An estimated one million people died in a war which saw Saddam…
Trailer: Deepwater Horizon
byDeepwater Horizon Director: Peter Berg Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell Synopsis: A story set on the offshore drilling…