Film Review: American Ultra (2015)
byLet’s smoke some weed and kick some arse! That’s not quite so much the premise of American Ultra, but more likely something the filmmakers…
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Film Review: Graceful Girls (2015)
byAnyone who has ever participated in dance should appreciate Olivia Peniston Bird’s debut feature Graceful Girls. On the contrary, if exaggerated smiles, sequins, and…
Film Review: Oddball (2015)
bySet in the sleepy Victorian coastal town of Warrnambool, Oddball is based on the true story of a white maremma dog set with the…
Film Review: Kill Me Three Times (2014)
bySet in Eagles Nest in Western Australia, Kill Me Three Times makes wonderful use of a gorgeous landscape. The luminous colours are the greatest…
Film Review: Pixels (2015)
byPixels is marketed as an action/comedy/sci-fi movie. The trouble is, it’s got intermittent action, precious little comedy, and the science fiction is restricted to…
Film Review: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
byThe young adult science fiction/dystopian future thing is like, so hot right now, but the overabundance of films in this genre in recent years has…
Film Review: Life (2015)
byThere is a bitter-sweet quality to director Anton Corbijn’s film Life, in that we already know the fate of one of the lead characters,…
Film Review: The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
byThe Duke of Burgundy is one of those films that can’t really be described; it can only be experienced. There’s about one of these…
Film Review: Straight Outta Compton (2015)
byIn the late 80s, five young men from Compton, LA, released an album that revolutionized a musical genre and brought many social battles thriving across…
Film Review: We Are Your Friends (2015)
byDirector Max Joseph delivers easy viewing with his first feature, We Are Your Friends. Cole Carter (Zac Efron) is an aspiring DJ, trying to…