Greek tragedy done Scottish style, Sunset Song is tortuous to sit through. This is Terence Davies’ (Distant Voices, Still Lives) intimate epic of tragedy and love set at the dawn of the Great War. It is about a young woman’s endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on a novel by Lewis Grassic…
Looks like I’ve found myself another author for my must-read list. S.K. Tremayne’s latest novel The Fire Child is everything I want in a psychological thriller. Here’s the blurb: When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place. Swept from single life in London to the beautiful Carnhallow House in Cornwall, she…
You could call A Hologram for the King a coming-of-age story for a man or a midlife crisis tale. It’s Tom Hanks in less-than-populist filmmaking mode. The film features an unconventional narrative based on a culture clash. In recession-ravaged 2010, American businessman Alan Clay (Hanks), broke, depressed and freshly divorced, arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia…
A sensitive drama with a mystery at its core, the Israeli feature The Kind Words combines humour and pathos. At age 35, Dorona’s (Rotem Zissman-Cohen) life seems to have hit a dead-end. She can’t have children, she’s abandoned attempts at adoption and she seems intent on pushing her loving husband, Ricky, as far away as…
– Spin Out – Only in cinemas from 15 September 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Sony Pictures Releasing. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Billy and Lucy have grown up together in a small, close-knit Australian country town, where they form one of the town’s most formidable Ute…
I have not watched the British TV series The Office, so was not sure what to expect from this belated spin off feature length film. There have been many attempts to extend a 30 minute sitcom to feature length, such as the recent belated Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, which was unfortunately laboured, unfunny, past its…
– The Magnificent Seven – Only in cinemas from 29 September 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Sony Pictures Releasing. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ The Magnificent Seven. With the sleepy…
– Lavazza Film Festival – Only in cinemas from 13 September 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Palace Cinemas. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE The Lavazza Italian Film Festival driven by Fiatwill once again showcase the very best new Italian cinema when it screens exclusively at Palace Cinemas. The…
I am really sorry to have to say that I have just seen another Australian movie which is absolutely ghastly, in the form of Red Billabong. Nick Marshall (Dan Ewing from Home and Away) and his estranged brother Tristan (Tim Pocock) are drawn into a world of secrets and lies when their grandfather’s enormous outback…
Relationships can be tricky to navigate at the best of times, but when you must traverse the cultural divide and respective parents are at cross-purposes the task becomes a whole lot more difficult. That is the premise behind Alex & Eve, the feelgood, comedic romance developed, written by and starring Alex Lykos, who began the…
