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…
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…
– Bitten: season 1 – On DVD and digital from 18 November 2015 We have 3 DVD copies thanks to eOne Entertainment. *(Valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Elena Michaels (Laura Vandervoort) wants the same things most 25-year-old women want: a stable home, a loving family, and a meaningful relationship with a…
A fanciful, feel good very French-American romantic comedy, 5 to 7 is part Neil Simon and part Woody Allen. The film concerns a gracious, charming and respectful young man, an aspiring writer, who has a chance encounter on the streets of Manhattan with a glamorous French woman. Brian (Anton Yelchin) is 24 and Arielle (Skyfall…
Several years ago you would have never heard me go on and on about a violin player but K. Ishibashi (aka Kishi Bashi) changed all of that with his genre changing debut 151a (2012). String Quartet Live! features reimagined versions from not only 151a but last year’s Lighght, performed live by himself and an accompanying…
According to The Andrews Sisters’ official site, they were America’s most popular female singing group. Patty, the youngest sister, was a loud and energetic blonde who headed the group with her confident vocals. The middle sister was Maxene, a brunette, whose harmonic range gave the impression of four voices instead of three. Finally, completing the…
Mary-Rose MacColl’s novel In Falling Snow was one of my favourite books of 2012: “… a bittersweet, touching novel that ends with an uplifting element of hope.” The same words aptly summarise her latest novel, Swimming Home. Set in the 1920s in post-war London, this new novel also deals with themes of self-discovery, family, identity, freedom, belonging…
Judd Apatow is well known for his raunchy romantic comedies like The 40-Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. But his films have also tended to be a little self indulgent, and overlong, with running times in excess of two hours, and consequently they have tended to meander a little in the middle section. Trainwreck is…
The film takes its title from a quote attributed to Plato: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” And that is the perfect title for this harrowing, confronting and uncensored up close and personal look at the horrors of war from a veteran war correspondent who spent seven years in Iraq. In 2003…
Terminator Genisys is at times viciously violent, features masterful special effects and a story that is confusing and convoluted. Further, it makes good on a catchphrase – “I’ll be back” – that became one of the most recognisable after it entered our lexicon when the first movie in the series was released in 1984. Arnold…
