Carrying shades of Sicario and Payback, Mel Gibson returns to the big screen in the action-thriller Blood Father as Link, an ex-con who has done all manner of bad things, but is now wanting to turn his life around. With an ex-wife who doesn’t want to talk to him and a daughter he’s lost touch…
I generally enjoy a good crime caper, and I’m a fan of both Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick; so it’s a little disconcerting that I’m so conflicted about Mr Right. On the surface, this darkly comedic romp through New Orleans should be a crowd pleaser – after all, it’s a kind of Mr & Mrs…
This grim but atmospheric drama about guilt, grief, redemption and revenge, and dysfunctional families marks the feature film directorial debut for Grant Scicluna, whose short film The Wilding has been racking up awards at film festivals around the globe. The film centres around James (played by Reef Ireland, from Scicluna’s The Wilding), who has been…
Term Life is the kind of movie that makes me think deeply the next day, just because I can’t remember the title anymore. Let alone I remember anything significant content wise. At first I didn’t even feel like watching this comical crime film, due to the presence of Vince Vaughn. He isn’t exactly my favorite…
Hitchcock’s North by Northwest set the benchmark as an intoxicating thriller on stage with innovative and creative staging. Now Tom Holloway has adapted James M. Cain’s 1943 novella Double Indemnity, which was inspired by a 1927 murder that Cain covered as a New York journalist. It originally appeared as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine…
Ivan Sen prefers to call his latest film Goldstone a follow up to the acclaimed and award winning thriller Mystery Road rather than a sequel, in much the same way that They Call Me Mister Tibbs was not a sequel to the Oscar winning In The Heat Of The Night. However it’s not as compelling…
This thriller about an unusual hostage situation is a sort of Dog Day Afternoon for the post GFC crowd. It also plays to our own innate suspicion and distrust of financiers, bankers and corporate executives who deal in hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, both large and small, but who are rarely held accountable…
The edgy, psychedelic 60s-themed drama, Aquarius is returning for its second season on the Presto on-demand service from 17 June. The show will kick off with a special three-episode premiere ahead of its weekly schedule. Episodes one to three will stream express from the U.S. on Friday, 17 June. Following the initial three episode drop,…
Some books you don’t want to end … except you do, because you’re dying to know what happened. Missing, Presumed is one of those books. Here’s the blurb: Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw soothes her insomnia with the din of the police radio she keeps by her bed. After another bad date, it takes the crackling voices…
The diabolical consequences of a boy’s night gone horribly wrong – that’s the premise of The Boys’ Club, a disturbing and eye-catching world premiere, written and directed by Thomas Ian Doyle. These are a bunch of cement workers in a testosterone-rich environment together for a warehouse party that the boss has splashed out $6k for…
