Film Review: Personal Shopper (2016)
byPersonal Shopper is a film that feels incomplete. A jigsaw puzzle halfway done and in terms of coherent plot it isn’t far off Lynchian….
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Film Review: A Silent Voice (2016)
byThe latest in a string of excellent anime films to hit Australian cinemas following last year’s Your Name and The Red Turtle comes A…
Film Review: Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
byPicking up eighteen months after the events of the last season, the movie adaptation of ABC series Dance Academy (2010-2013) sees Tara (Xenia Goodwin)…
Film Review: Zach’s Ceremony (2016)
byAustralian cinema can now lay claim on having made its own version of Boyhood. In 2009 Aaron Petersen began the ten year journey of…
Film Review: The Country Doctor (2016)
byFilms predicated on the chasm between city and country people can often fall into the territory of twee without much effort – farmyard geese…
Film Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
byJust for a second let’s put to one side the claims of whitewashing that have dogged Rupert Sanders’ Hollywood reboot of Ghost in the…
Film Review: Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
byFull disclosure: I didn’t grow up with the Smurfs. My childhood had a large animated blue hole where Papa Smurf and the gang should…
Film Review: Clash (2016)
byThe Arab Spring. It’s one of those topics that everyone knows the name of, but very few of us over here in the West…
Article: Just how Lego is The LEGO Batman Movie?
byThe new Lego film, The LEGO Batman Movie certainly looks like Lego, but it doesn’t feel like the bright, bold bricks we love from…
Film Review: The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
byNearly everyone had to have been pleasantly surprised by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The LEGO Movie a few years ago. The jokes were sharp,…