MIFF Review: Jayne Mansfield’s Car (2012)
byThe latest film from Billy Bob Thornton as writer/director reteams him with co-writer Tom Epperson (with whom he wrote the excellent crime drama One…
The latest film from Billy Bob Thornton as writer/director reteams him with co-writer Tom Epperson (with whom he wrote the excellent crime drama One…
Although Into The Abyss, the new Werner Herzog documentary was supposed to be screened during the festival, what was actually shown (without any announcement…
The prolific and brilliant Takashi Miike returns to MIFF (he has two other films showing; Ace Attorney and For Love’s Sake) with the stunning…
In much the same way he tackled a completely genre different to his typical comedic work with his pseudo-documentary Zelig in the early eighties,…
“Remember, if it bends its comedy. If it breaks, its not”. Woody Allen ended the eighties by combining the plight of the intelligent, but…
After a long and troubled release history (the film was shelved in 2009), culminating for Australian audiences in a decision for its release straight…
After cutting his teeth as an assistant director, Adrian Grunberg makes an assured directorial debut with Get The Gringo, a gritty prison film unlike…
“You can have her now at the old price… Which is anything you want to give me. Anything at all”. “You know what turns…
The first Men In Black film was a fun, comic book style adventure that successfully combined the odd couple pairing of the ultra-serious Tommy…
After a decade of critical and commercial success making fairly accessible comedies in the seventies with the likes of Annie Hall and Manhatten, Woody…