Film Review: How to Change the World (2015)
byWritten by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 17 September 2015 With a clickbaity title and glowing endorsements from Greenpeace, you could be excused for thinking…
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Film Review: Citizenfour (2014)
byWritten by Angus Tonkin Originally published 11 February 2015 Edward Snowden, or Ed, as he likes to be called, is the iconic spy of…
Film Review: 20,000 Days On Earth (2014)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 2 September 2014 20,000 Days On Earth is effectively a staged documentary that purports to follow Australian born…
Film Review: What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
byWritten by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 2 September 2014 Hollywood’s obsession with the undead has become an international epidemic, with New Zealand the latest…
Film Review – Locke (2014)
byWritten by Joanna Di Mattia Originally published 28 August 2014 Constructing a building. Dismantling a life. These are the dual organizing principles of Steven…
Film Review: Omar (2013)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 June 2014 “You can’t become a freedom fighter by just watching”. Taking at its heart the Israeli/Palestine…
Film Review: Adult World (2013)
byWritten by Chloe Sesta Jacobs Originally published 3 April 2014 When we meet the ‘eccentric’ wannabe poet Amy (Emma Roberts), she is sticking her…
Film Review: White Elephant (2012)
byWritten by Chloe Sesta Jacobs Originally published 3 April 2014 Father Julian (Ricardo Darin) and Father Nicolas (Jeremie Renier) are working in the poverty-stricken…
Film Review: The Outlaw Michael Howe (2013)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 30 January 2014 The year is 1815, the place: Van Diemen’s Land. After being established as a penal…
Film Review: Fly Me To The Moon (2012)
byIn most romantic films, the good girl gets the good guy, vindicating all of the audiences’ wildest dreams. Without changing the formula too much, Pascal Chaumeil’s Fly Me To The Moon manages to throw a curve ball into the mix, concocting a situation where two good guys are competing for the affections of a despicable female lead.