Pain and Gain isn’t an action-packed comedy, it’s offensive, boring and way too drawn out. Failing to be entertaining on the most basic of levels, around the halfway mark you’re wondering how it could possibly continue. Whether the encompassing parody is deliberate or not it is very unsettling.
Ever sympathetic to historical baddies and outcasts, Coppola uses the opportunity to shine a light back on us, and the sick obsessive behaviours of western civilisation.
We’re all familiar with how heist movies work, since Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s franchise broke down every step of the heist to show how clever…
The Cosmic Psychos are a Melbourne pub-rock-punk band that formed back in the 80s. Three genuine Aussie blokes who were most definitely in the…
It has been more than 10 years since Nick Frost, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright teamed up to make Shaun Of The Dead, thus beginning the aptly named “Cornetto Trilogy”, and finally, the trilogy comes to a close with The World’s End.
Debuting at MIFF 2012, it seems a little strange that brothers Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ 100 Bloody Acres (writing and directing) had to open in the US to generally rave reviews before making it to Australia. It’s a good thing it made it back at all because this is one Australian film deserving of a wider audience.
Hot off the heels of the big reveal on Gossip Girl, Penn Badgley stars as the troubled rocker Jeff Buckley in the biopic of…
Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. That’s the motto most musicians lived (and I use the term ‘lived’ lightly) by in the 70s and…
The film’s plot moves briskly enough from one forced cliché to the next that’s punctuated by some well-staged action sequences (including one atop a speeding bullet train). The pace is also advantageous in speeding past some of the fairly large plot-holes, especially considering the talent that collaborated on the screenplay
Orchestra of Exiles, by Academy Award-nominated director Josh Aronson, recounts one of these lesser-known narratives, that of Bronislaw Huberman and the founding of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra.