Film Review: The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Stepping away from the amusing but not exactly articulate Minions, Illumination Entertainment is back with some quality animation in The Secret Life of Pets….
The Act of Killing
Film Review: London Has Fallen (2016)
Does every action movie post 9/11 have to be about terrorists? It would seem so. London Has Fallen sees leaders from all over the…
Film Review: Gods of Egypt (2016)
Another reviewer has described Alex Proyas’s Gods of Egypt as ‘one hot mess’, and that would seem to be a fairly accurate description. With…
Film Review: The Look of Silence (2014)
The Look of Silence is the second documentary from director Joshua Oppenheimer to examine the mass genocide in Indonesia in the late 1960s. It…
Film Review: The Assassin (2015)
The latest film from world cinema auteur Hsiao-Hsien Hou will not be to everyone’s tastes. Those expecting a period martial arts extravaganza in the…
Film Review: American Ultra (2015)
Let’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…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: Only the Dead (2015)
Michael Ware is a fascinating individual with insights into dark truths many of us may only glimpse in a life time. He is the…
TV: True Detective, An Analysis
True Detective‘s first season won five Emmys and the adulation of audiences craving philosophically engaging crime drama. At first glance, the finale seemed to…
Film Review: Partisan (2015)
Partisan is the debut film of Australian writer/director Ariel Kleiman, a grim coming of age tale set in the outskirts of an unnamed city…
TV Recap: Silicon Valley, S02E05, Server Space
The narrative progress of Silicon Valley has always been ‘one step forward, two steps back’ for the Pied Piper team. Unfortunately this has often…