Finally I was able to admire this highly anticipated feature film. Although, I wasn’t waiting impatiently for this new episode, like so many millions of other Star Wars fans. I always have to think hard while trying to situate this Star Wars movie in the whole saga. All that prequel, sequel or semi-sequel mumbo jumbo…
Haley Joel Osment spoke to dead people in The Sixth Sense, but Midnight Special is a different “other world” experience for the eight-year-old at the centre of this science fiction thriller. Much of the material is perplexing for a long time. The film starts off looking anything like it turns out. So, what do we…
I’m not a believer of those New Year’s resolutions which are traditionally made during a drunk moment. Usually they are long forgotten after a few months. However, I have a new resolution after watching The 5th Wave. I’m never ever going to watch another post-apocalyptic, teen film based on a youth book, where there’s also…
A sensitive and endearing tale that links three unlikely people – a student, a baker and an elderly woman – this Japanese movie was a selection for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. The title, An, refers to a sweet red bean paste, which is a favourite in Japan. Taciturn Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase)…
– A Bigger Splash – Only in cinemas from 24 March 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE From the director of the Academy Award® nominated I AM LOVE comes a psychological suspense drama that will invite audiences into the fragile and…
A mystery, drama, science fiction and psychological thriller all rolled into one, 10 Cloverfield Lane is the spiritual successor to 2008’s sleeper hit Cloverfield. We are introduced to Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) when she is at sixes and sevens. Not thinking all that clearly, she packs a suitcase and exits her city apartment in haste…
From loathing to liking … I can’t recall too many movies I have seen where my predilection has swung so appreciably. But that was the case with Victoria, slow burn material shot in point of view style (think extensive use of hand held camera) from the perspective of the lead character. So, patience is ultimately…
Of all the horror tropes, witches have had a lean run lately. Seems you can’t turn around without a new movie about zombies, vampires or ghosts being released; but witches have somehow stayed quietly in the background. Until now that is, and the release of Robert Eggers’ genuinely creepy indie film, The Witch. An audience…
Geoffrey Rush plays a thoroughly dislikable character in The Daughter, a story inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, which screenwriter and director Simon Stone has also directed and adapted as a play. A slow-burn of a film, it is haunting and moody. In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian (Paul Schneider)…
Spielberg returns to the history of war long after War Horse, the story of a stallion with a Lassie attitude during WWI, but not with heroic images of the battlefield as in Saving Private Ryan. Bridge of Spies takes place during the Cold War, a period during which espionage was commonplace and super powers completely…
