Film Review: Won’t Back Down (2012)
byThis review contains vague spoilers. A grainy landscape sets the scene; from the first frame, the audience is aware of the bleak and harsh…
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Film Review: Warm Bodies (2013)
byIn case you somehow haven’t been paying attention, vampires are kind of a big deal right now. But this is not the cold, irredeemably evil, and occasionally camp vampire of years gone by. Generally speaking, modern vampires have taken the form of sensitive but slightly edgy romantic heroes, the type that feature in the fast expanding subgenre of paranormal romance films, TV shows and books.
Film Review: Jurassic Park 3D (1993)
byEqual parts exciting, amusing, frightening and spectacular, this is how it’s done. Go and see it on the big screen because the television doesn’t do it justice.
Film Review: Sleepwalk With Me (2012)
byBased on his one-man show of the same name and winner ‘Best of NEXT audience Award’ at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, Sleepwalk with Me is a stylised account of director Mike Birbiglia’s early days as a would-be stand-up comedian.
Film Review: Now is Good (2012)
byNow Is Good, writer/director Ol Parker’s follow-up to Imagine Me and You with a script adapted from Jenny Downham’s novel, sees grown up Dakota…
TV Recap: The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Episode 9
byThe story was moving a bit quicker this week in the second last episode of The Doctor Blake Mysteries titled ‘All That Glitters’. It was wonderful to see a very drunk Lucien (Craig McLachlan) tell the whole town what he thought of the visiting British Consul.
Film Review: Rust and Bone (2012)
byRust and Bone is emotionally raw film, contrasting aggression with genuine intimacy and stays with you long after you have left the cinema.
Film Review: The Croods (2013)
byIn all seriousness, what really elevates this movie is the attention to detail and visual splendour we have come to expect from big budget animation. Every hair, eye-twitch, leaf and breeze has been accounted for in this spectacular 98-minute action reel/nature documentary.
Film Review: Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
byBill Murray is an absolute God of the film world, a Mecca of Cool, the King of Kings, and he’s developed into quite the actor in his old age. In Hyde Park on Hudson Mr Murray tackles FDR in an interesting time in his life, a week in 1939 when the King and Queen of England (Elizabeth and Bertie) make the first trip to America of any royal, to ask for support in the looming war.
Film Review: Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)
byIn 1972 Father Lawrence Murphy of the St. John School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, became the first priest to be publically accused…