Film Review: Brothers’ Nest (2018)
byBrothers’ Nest is the latest film from Clayton Jacobson, the director of the Australian film Kenny. Again Clayton both directs and teams up with…
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Film Review: The Commuter (2018)
byBefore you ask, yes, he says it. Well, not the whole thing. But he does comes close. “I will kill you,” Liam Neeson declares…
Film Review: Allied (2016)
byAllied opens in French Morocco in 1942, with Canadian spy Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) parachuting into the desert in dramatic fashion. He is on…
Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)
byNocturnal Animals opens with a jarring and disorienting sequence, one which is likely to fascinate and perturb viewers in equal measures. Middle aged and…
Film Review: Julieta (2016)
byThe opening image of Julieta is a vast sea of red. A deep, breathing, powerful wall – it represents an opening curtain, a beating…
Film Review: La Belle Saison (2015)
byLa Belle Saison is French for ‘summertime’, that time of year with the radiating sun and the slow lazy afternoons. It literally means ‘the…
Film Review: Dial M For Murder (1954)
byProduced at the height of the first 3D phase in 1953 (which for anyone who was sentient at the time mercifully only lasted the…
Film Review: Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
byIt’s crazy to think there was a time when Alfred Hitchcock was perceived to be more of an entertainer than an artist. It’s even…
Film Review: April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
byApril and the Extraordinary World beings with an intriguing and cerebral premise: Napoleon dies in a chemical explosion and the trajectory of history is…
Film Review: The Hateful Eight (2015)
byQuentin Tarantino has delivered yet another bloody cinematic tribute in his eighth and latest film, The Hateful Eight. The film uses Tarantino’s trademark blend…