Questions of morality and decency are at the heart of an outstanding comedic drama concerning the interactions of two night security guards and two police officers in New York. Jeff (Charles Grounds) was booted out of the navy after three years for dope smoking, something his father – who was a naval hero – was…
Like most everybody else, I first discovered The Shins in that great scene in the coming of age movie Garden State (2004) where Zach Braff’s character tries on the headphones of Natalie Portman to hear a brief snippet of the song “New Slang,” from the band’s 2001 debut album, Oh, Inverted World. That exposure worked…
I couldn’t think of a more appropriate name for a cliche-riddled film that fails to ignite than Off the Rails. When Anna she dies of cancer, she leaves European rail passes for her three good friends to revisit their past adventures. Each of the middle-aged women have their issues. Cassie (Kelly Preston), who plays a…
A tough and resolute, factually-based crime drama, The Infiltrator is centred on the actions of the drug cartels that infiltrated the US in the 1980s. The film, directed by Brad Furman and written by Ellen Brown Furman, comes from an autobiography of the same name by Robert Mazur. Mazur (played by Bryan Cranston), a US…
– Berlin Syndrome – Only in cinemas from 20 April 2017 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to eOne Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE BERLIN SYNDROME follows Clare (Teresa Palmer), an Aussie photographer, who travels to Berlin and meets a charismatic local named Andi (Max Riemelt). Their attraction is…
– War on Everyone – Available on DVD and Blu-ray from 19 April 2017 We have 3 DVD copies of the film thanks to Icon Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Written & Directed by John Michael McDonagh (The Guard and Calvary) WAR ON EVERYONE is a no-hold-barred black comedy which…
Ensemble romantic comedies, a la Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve, play to a formula and come out the other end as feel good entertainment … and so it is with Mother’s Day. And guess what? All three are directed by Garry Marshall, for whom comedic romance with a touch of drama is stock-in-trade. In…
To think that equal rights are still being fought for in the 21st century makes me sick. That was my mindset while watching this moving drama based upon a true story. Julianne Moore stars as Laurel Hester, a 20-plus year veteran of the New Jersey Police Department, highly regarded by all and as good a…
A new Pharoah has stepped into Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. Trevor Ashley, who played Edna Turnblad in Hairspray more than a decade ago, is that performer, who mimics Elvis in Las Vegas. It is a role he will also play in the upcoming Sydney season at the Capitol Theatre. At the Regent Theatre in Melbourne he is…
I must confess that I haven’t seen the first two films in the Terrifier series. But I was drawn to check out the third film in the slasher franchise out of curiosity due to news reports from the US about people fainting, vomiting and fleeing from the cinema due to the intense level of graphic…
