It is 1991 and materialism lives. There’s tension in the house when four people spend time together in a chalet on Mount Buller, which the wealthy and bombastic owner – a psychologist and author – has just won as part of a bitter divorce settlement. He has had a Jacuzzi newly installed smack bang in…
My book club read books on ‘royals’ last month, and since this was on my review shelf, it was an easy choice. At the same time, I was watching TV series The Tudors, and the month before I’d finished Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. I’m in Tudor overload! Here’s the blurb: Why would a woman marry a serial…
Woman in Gold is a wonderful and sometimes touching film. Not because of the topic as this was already highlighted in The Monuments Men, but because of the brilliant rendition Helen Mirren is showing here. A role that suits her perfectly. A distinguished elderly lady who’s a descendant of a wealthy Jewish family and who…
– Man Up – Only in cinemas from 5 November 2015 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Nancy (Lake Bell), is done with dating. Ten times bitten, 100 times shy, she’s exhausted by the circus. So when Jack (Simon Pegg) blindly mistakes…
“A lot of people ask me if I’m happy with the turnout. I think it’s more than being happy, being satisfied, as no creative person is entirely satisfied with their creation,” reflects Indian born film director Anupam Sharma when talking about his debut feature UnIndian, which was shot in Sydney. UnIndian is a multi-cultural romance…
I didn’t know much about the “sport” of calisthenics before entering the cinema to see this documentary. Calisthenics is a discipline unique to Australia, and it combines elements of ballet and gymnastics with colourful costumes and superb choreography. Calisthenics can be performed by individuals or by groups with perfectly choreographed routines. And every year an…
Latest figures in Australia, the US and the UK reveal that one in eight women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. So how do you create a movie on this topic that is watchable and relatable and enjoyable? That was the challenge confronting the filmmakers responsible for Miss You Already. This dramatic comedic romance…
This quirky, comedic cross cultural drama, set in New York, concerns a serious, hard working driving instructor who has a second job as a taxi driver and a book reviewer that has just found out her husband is leaving her. The instructor is Darwan (Ben Kingsley) an Indian Sikh who was granted political asylum and…
Two films in double quick time that cover the life and times of notorious mobsters – first I saw Legend, which dealt with the English gangsters the Kray twins and now this about American standover man James “Whitey” Bulger. What they have in common is that their central characters appeared to revel in inflicting pain,…
It is the 1980s. An elderly woman passes away. She lived with her son, being one of her five offspring. But there was no love lost between that son, Leslie and his sister Maureen. Each has their say in this heartfelt two-act play, with one actor – UK-born Michael Dalton, who immigrated to Australia in…
