Huge on effects, writer and director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) takes Superman into a newly imagined DC universe. The film’s opening sets up the contention that, for the first time, the superhero has been beaten … and it has just happened. He lays bloodied on the snow, barely alive, and needs to call…
Start with the facts and lace it with fiction. That is what screenwriter Nathalie Leuthreau and director Guillaume Nicloux have done with French stage star Sarah Bernhardt (22nd October, 1844 – 26th March, 1923). She became a global sensation. Bernhardt was spirited, determined, heavily opinionated and charismatic. Lovers of both sexes and admirers were plentiful….
What happens if you are a doctor and make a questionable call? Not just any questionable call, but one that can mean the difference between life and death? That is the conceit at the centre of a tense Scandinavian drama. Alex (Ozlem Saglanmak) is a neurologist who works at a busy hospital. The attending doctor…
Box office success spawns sequels. Dinosaurs have always been big business, so why would the studio stop at the trilogy of Jurassic World movies? Now, three years after Jurassic World Dominion, we have a reboot. The series kicked off with three Jurassic Park movies, starting in 1993, before Jurassic World came along in 2015. The…
A surprisingly sensitive zombie movie, 28 Years Later reunites the writer and director of the original film in the franchise 23 years after 28 Days Later was released. I speak of Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). It has been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory…
How difficult is it to find the perfect match, the person you are prepared to commit to for the rest of your life? If you buy into the conceit of the new romantic drama Materialists, it is a shark pool out there and finding Mr or Mrs Right is the stuff of nightmares. That is…
Francois Marsault (Andre Dussollier) is a former military man. Now aged 75, he lives life on his terms. Married to Annie (Sabine Azema) since she was 19, they have three grown up children. The eldest, Amaury (Gael Giraudeau), has followed his father into the armed forces. At a family gathering to mark his mother’s birthday,…
Jaws (1975) meets Dead Calm (1989) on steroids in the new Australian psychological horror Dangerous Animals. Jai Courtney is positively chilling as Gold Coast charter boat operator Bruce Tucker. He specialises in taking tourists out to sea and dropping them into the ocean in a shark proof cage to watch the Apex predators up close…
Talk to Me marked “them” as a pair to be watched. I speak of twins Danny and Michael Philippou for whom that supernatural horror marked their feature directorial debut. Now Bring Her Back, shot in South Australia, brings more terror. Originally from Adelaide, the brothers moved to the US at the start of 2019, but…
In keeping with Disney’s want of late, Lilo and Stitch is a heartwarming live action version of the animated feature that was released in 2002. Lilo Pelekai is a cute six-year-old scallywag, who runs to the beat of her own drum. A loner, she has been profoundly affected by the tragic loss of her parents…
