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Film review – Frances Ha (2012) 19 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Sophie (Mickey Sumner) and Frances (Greta Gerwig) Contemporary cinema that is genuinely joyous and uplifting is surprisingly rare. Films that tug at the heartstrings or can be described as bitter/swe...
Film review – Pain & Gain (2013) 8 Aug 2013 | 05:09 am
Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson), Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) and Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) Producer and director Michael Bay is frequently derided – and often with good reason – for making ugly, so...
Film review – Behind the Candelabra (2013) 25 Jul 2013 | 10:35 am
Liberace (Michael Douglas) and Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) Liberace was a larger-than-life pianist and entertainer whose love of excess and flamboyance was legendary. Steven Soderbergh’s attempt to ca...
MIFF 2013 recommendations part 3 24 Jul 2013 | 06:05 am
Here is my final batch of MIFF 2013 recommendations before the festival kicks off. Don’t forget to check out part 1 and part 2, and I hope my thoughts on the films below are helpful. In fact, you coul...
Film review – This Is the End (2013) 18 Jul 2013 | 09:40 am
James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and Danny McBride On 7 May 2011 something apocalyptic happened in popular culture – Michael Bolton became really cool. The soft rock...
MIFF 2013 recommendations part 2 15 Jul 2013 | 09:26 am
Here are some more of my recommendations for the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival based on what I’ve seen so far. Check out part 1 if you haven’t done so already and here are eight more feat...
Film review – Pacific Rim (2013) 12 Jul 2013 | 08:42 am
How much subtext should be expected from a film about giant monsters fighting giant mecha robots? In the case of Pacific Rim, apparently not much as director Guillermo del Toro seems determined to mak...
MIFF 2013 recommendations part 1 7 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
The full 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival program was announced last week so I thought I’d start sharing my recommendations from what I’ve seen so far. This list is by no means exhaustive, t...
Film review – Man of Steel (2013) 27 Jun 2013 | 06:38 pm
Clark Kent/Kal-El (Henry Cavill) After one of the most exhilarating action sequences in Man of Steel, Martha Kent (Diane Lane) tells her adopted alien son Clarke (Henry Cavill), ‘It’s only stuff Clar...
Film review – Mud (2012) 13 Jun 2013 | 01:34 am
What is the worst thing to tell a young teenage boy? To not trust women and be suspicious of love, or that women are to be worshiped and love conquers all? In Jeff Nichols’s third feature film Mud, El...
