“Black Water: Abyss” doesn’t need great acting and doesn’t get it, says movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD. Its best ingredient is the aerial shots of North Queensland and its rain forests.
IS it a thriller? A psychological drama? A black comedy? A story of obsession? A fantasy escape from every restraint that human morality can devise? DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews "Deerskin".
“We'll End Up Together” is a film that belongs to François Cluzet as Max, in a great performance in a happy-ender made more credible by the close shaves traversed before arriving there, says movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
"Unhinged" is not a “nice” film. Russell Crowe plays a man beset by an awful family tragedy, who happens to be driving the pick-up truck that doesn’t move off after the light goes to green.
"23 Walks" a tale of the human condition as old age begins to bite, telling it like it is when two strangers, no longer young, meet in a London park while walking their dogs, says reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
"'The Secret: Dare to Dream' isn't a bad movie. It’s merely a pot-boiler about people dealing with not only a wild storm but also some of life’s realities that they’d rather not have to confront," writes reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
"The Burnt Orange Heresy" is in the best tradition not of film noir as classically defined by pessimism, fatalism, and menace but of murder, greed and other varieties of dishonesty, writes reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
“Babyteeth” comes with a generous sprinkling of comedy to moderate our awareness of the inevitability of its underlying sadness, writes movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
It’s family. It’s friendship. It’s life among the social bottom feeders of that heck of a town. It’s petty crime. It’s "The King of Staten Island' and DOUGAL MACDONALD has reviewed it.
Bernadette has what some might call a problem. The norms of either of her lives, professional and private, are restricting. She needs a sea change. She’s planning a family voyage to Antarctica. its a movie and DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews her progress.
DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews a mystery drama movie that turns out to be a homage to horror and mystery novelist Shirley Jackson, who may have by now faded from the memories of all but her most devoted aficionados.