Film Review: Back to Burgundy (2017)
“You like wine, then you make wine,” says Jean (Pio Marmaï) to his beleaguered sister, Juliette (Ana Girardot). She’s battling unruly grape pickers, who…
The Yes Men
Film Review: Disobedience (2017)
Hot on the heels of his recent Best Foreign Language Film Oscar win for A Fantastic Woman, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio writes and directs…
Film Review: Cargo (2017)
Is there anything original that can be done with zombies? Films, books, video games and television have all been swarmed with the walking dead…
Film Review: Deadpool 2 (2018)
In 2016 in these very pages I wrote about how Deadpool was breaking the dull, factory-like mould of superhero movies. I wondered if audiences…
Film Review: Tully (2018)
Many films have tried to present motherhood on screen but few of them are willing to portray the darker tinges of it. Yes, pushing…
Review: National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)
Tennessee Williams’ play, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955, explores the nature of truth, lies, death, family and alcohol. For their latest performance,…
Film Review: I Feel Pretty (2018)
Amy Schumer stars in I Feel Pretty, directed and written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (How to Be Single, He’s Just Not That…
Film Review: Isle of Dogs (2018)
Animation is the perfect medium for Wes Anderson. The auteur of pastel symmetry likes to mould the world to fit his preferred aesthetic, so…
Film Review: Rampage (2018)
Without even seeing this film there is a lot to be surmised on the facts alone. Rampage stars The Rock and a giant gorilla,…
Film Review: Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)
It’s quite rare that specialised films made for the American bible belt make their way to Australia. Rarer still that they manage to get…