Film Review: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
byIt is no surprise that dreams, fantasy and perceptions of reality are a big part of The Eye Has to Travel. After all, Diana…
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Film Review: 2 Days in New York (2012)
byJulie Delpy is an old hack at the writer-director-actor role and the proof of her experience is in the pudding of 2 Days in…
Film Review: Sound of my Voice (2011)
byWatching Zal Batmanglij’s debut film Sound of My Voice feels a bit like putting together an incomplete jigsaw puzzle. Assembling the edge pieces is…
Film Review: Robot and Frank (2012)
bySet in the very near future, Robot and Frank tells the tale of Frank (Frank Langella), a man with dementia who is living alone…
Wednesdays With Woody: Cassandra’s Dream (2007)
byThe third of Allen’s London films, Cassandra’s Dream, much like Match Point is a film within which what we know as “Woody Allen” is…
Film Review: God Bless America (2012)
byComedian turned director Bobcat Goldthwait made quite an impression on Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) audiences with his 2009 feature World’s Greatest Dad. This…
Film Review: Dead Europe (2012)
byHot on the heels of the successful miniseries adaptation of the very popular 2008 Christos Tsiolkas novel The Slap, Dead Europe is Tony Krawitz‘s feature film…
Film Review: The Sessions (2012)
byBased on a 1990 article written by the real Mark O’Brien, entitled On Seeing A Sex Surrogate, The Sessions is a film about a physically…
Wednesdays with Woody: Scoop (2006)
byWoody Allen’s 2006 film Scoop was released perfectly between sport inspired Match Point and crime thriller Cassandra’s Dream. The tagline is simple, ‘The perfect…
Film Review: The Master (2012)
byFreddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) a WWII veteran turned drifting vagrant, wakes up on the ocean-liner of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a writer and…