The low budget crowd pleasing underdog story Rocky won the Oscar for Best Film in 1977, made a star out of Sylvester Stallone, and spawned a number of sequels of varying quality. This seventh film in the long running franchise is the first to be written by someone other than Stallone himself. He felt that…
Viggo Mortensen (The Two Faces of January) stars in a tale of morality and friendship set against an unforgiving mountainous landscape during the Algerian War. The year is 1954 and the war is just starting. Remote village schoolteacher Daru (Mortensen), an ex-French Army soldier, who lost his wife a decade earlier, is caught in the…
A quintessential Australian yarn, some decent storytelling and a few beaut performances are the hallmarks of this road trip with a difference. Rex Macrae (Michael Caton) is a Broken Hill cab driver who has spent his life avoiding getting close to people. Even his best friend and occasional lover Polly (Ningali Lawford-Wolf – Rabbit Proof…
It is the winter of 1820 and the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. In the Heart of…
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…
The patience of Job would be a great asset when setting out to watch this slow moving martial arts film with a young female protagonist. Set in 9th century China (towards the end of the Tang Dynasty), Nie Yinniang (Shu Qi), a general’s daughter, is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the art…
It was inevitable that the runaway success of The Blacklist would spawn imitators. No doubt the attraction of having a ready-made “list” of episodes provided a “lightbulb moment” for many a producer. But where we never get to actually see Raymond Reddington’s “blacklist”, in Blindspot, the clues are literally laid out for you. In the…
Blood Bank is a new Australian play by a new writer Christopher Harley, at the Ensemble Theatre. It was part of the Ensemble Stages 2013 Spring Reading. It is set in the waiting room of a blood bank. Michael is waiting to donate blood to his very ill twin brother Justin, both played, well, by…
Gustave Flaubert’s 1865 brooding and bittersweet tragedy about a 19th century self destructive woman and her tragic fall from grace has been filmed many times. There was even a recent contemporary take on the character with the recent French film Gemma Bovary. And Woody Allen used Flaubert’s famous character as the template for his Blue…
– Young Ones – On DVD, Blu-ray and digital from 9 December 2015 We have 2 DVD prize packs^ thanks to Icon Film Distribution. *(Valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE A stunning sci-fi tale of revenge and violence set in a post-apocalyptic, drought-ravaged future. After fighting off raiders to protect what little…
