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Water for Elephants – Review »
The circus has come to town in this tear-jerking adaptation of Sara Gruen’s bestseller. Amidst a backdrop of the Great Depression, veterinary student Jacob Jankowski (Twilight’s Robert Pattinson) is preparing to sit his final exam and launch into the rest of his life when tragedy strikes; his parents are killed in a car accident, leaving [...]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules – Review »
Fans of the first Wimpy Kid will not be disappointed by this cheeky sequel, slipping sibling rivalry under the microscope with hilarious results. It’s back to middle school for our young hero Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon), who with the new school year, must negotiate a whole new set of trials and tribulations. To make matters [...]
Interview with the Writer/Director of Monsters, Gareth Edwards! »
Gareth Edwards’ is a part of a new generation of Hollywood directors. The 36 year old London boy is paving the way for a surge in low-budget sci-fi films inspired by the likes of George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg and, as I learnt today, Ray Harryhausen. Edwards’ feature debut, Monsters, received critical acclaim and was adored [...]
Never Let Me Go – Review »
From US director Mark Romanek comes a film that dares to explore an age-old truism: is it really better to have loved, and lost, than to have never loved at all? In Never Let Me Go, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are three unlikely friends, growing up together at Hailsham, what appears to be a run-of-the-mill, [...]
Limitless »
Neil Burger’s new thriller Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, is about a writer who discovers a new drug allowing him to enhance his mental abilities by increasing his intelligence and improving his focus. The crux of the movie is addiction; the process, the withdrawal and the consequences. Or at least that’s what [...]
Red Riding Hood – review »
The Big Bad Wolf is bigger and badder than ever in Twilight director Catherine Hardwick’s re-imagining of an old classic. ‘Once upon a time,’ we find the picturesque town of Daggerhorn, surrounded by forest and shrouded by fear of a notorious, serial-killing werewolf, whose identity remains a mystery. For beautiful, free-spirited Valerie (Mamma Mia’s Amanda [...]
The Reef – review »
Four young holidaymakers are forced to confront fear of the unknown in The Reef, the latest home-grown horror offering that suggests that perhaps it would be better to not get back into the water. Luke (Underbelly’s Damian Walshe-Howling) is joined by his former flame Kate (Zoe Naylor), her brother Matt (Gyton Grantley, also of [...]
The Adjustment Bureau – review »
A good movie is one that transports us from our ordinary reality to the one on screen. One that makes us feel as if the story unfolding before us carries a significance; be it Andy Dufresne’s escape from prison in The Shawshank Redemption, Jamal Malik’s day to day struggles in the rough streets of Mumbai [...]
Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos »
Nick Giannopoulos gave us a bundle of laughs with his last version of the comedy film The Wog Boy The film was a great satirical take on Greeks and Italians in the Australian community and was a hilarious hit for its time. Now, almost a decade later, and the Wog Boy is back for a [...]
Iron Man 2 »
Iron Man 2 is the latest of superhero movies to be released in the past few years. After the glory days of Spiderman, Superman and Batman, the latest batch of new age super humans is actually pretty good. The follow up to the 2008 movie does a pretty god job of keeping the plot where [...]