What a delightful and engaging comedy, which moves along at pace and is entertaining throughout. Tommaso (Marco Giallini) is a respected heart surgeon, although his relationship with the “heart” is limited to the operating room because his hard-nosed manner is hardly endearing to patients, their families or his students. Nevertheless, he is a highly capable…
First up, a question: when should a horror movie be allowed to run for 2¼ hours? The short answer: never! The best thing about The Conjuring 2 is the realistic sets and settings replicating Britain in the late ‘70s. The furniture, the houses, the clothes – what a hoot! The storyline however seemed to me…
Set in Frankfurt 13 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, Labyrinth of Lies is a picture of Germany – and the Nazis in particular – being pulled kicking and screaming to accountability for what was allowed to happen. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like…
Rudyard Kipling’s timeless tales make for engaging family entertainment and are inevitably children’s favourites, whether they be straight animation or animation combined with live action, as is the case here. Bombay-born, English writer Kipling channeled his love of India in 1894’s “The Jungle Book,” following with “The Second Jungle Book” in 1895. Though considered kids’…
Melissa McCarthy is the larger than life star of a movie co-written by her and her husband, Ben Falcone (who directs) and Steve Mallory. McCarthy’s character was brought up in an orphanage. One after another set of parents took her in briefly but then sent her back, indicating she “wasn’t the right fit”. But that…
Written by actor Damien Hill (Neighbours) and directed by Paul Ireland, Pawno is a gritty ensemble-driven slice of life drama and also a love letter to the suburb of Footscray and its multicultural nature and colourful inhabitants. It revolves around a seedy and cluttered pawn shop located in Barkly Street and the motley character who…
A Month of Sundays is the third film from writer/director Matt Saville, and is something of a change of pace. His first two films were the multi-award winning Noise and Felony, both character driven police dramas that explored themes of guilt, responsibility, family and secrets. A Month of Sundays is a more introspective drama about…
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…
The three lead actors in Florence Foster Jenkins are picture perfect in their respective roles making this a far superior offering to the recently released Marguerite, which covered the same territory. This is an endearing and decidedly quirky comedy and period piece from acclaimed director Stephen Frears (Philomena, The Queen) starring Meryl Streep as Florence…
You will never look at elephants the same way after seeing Sacha Baron Cohen’s (the mastermind behind Borat, Bruno and Ali G) latest outrageous creation, Grimsby, complete with a surfeit of butt jokes and genitalia. His newest character is Nobby Butcher, a terminally unemployed but fun-loving football fan who is forced to save the world….
