Film Review / ‘See You Up There’ (MA) **** Film Review / ‘See You Up There’ (MA) **** IN a little less than four months, there will very probably be major ceremonies commemorating…
Film Review / ‘Occupation’ (M) no stars Film Review / ‘Occupation’ (M) no stars LUKE Sparke’s career is long on working in the costume departments of TV documentary series,…
Film Review / ‘Skyscraper’ (M) ** and a half Film Review / ‘Skyscraper’ (M) ** and a half IN 1988’s big actioner “Die Hard”, Bruce Willis stopped bad guys from destroying an airport…
Film Review / ‘The Gospel According to André’ (PG) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Gospel According to André’ (PG) *** and a half BIG, black (more correctly, the colour of milky coffee), beautiful, bright, brash and brainy. That…
Film Review / ‘Mary Shelley’ (PG) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Mary Shelley’ (PG) *** and a half STUDENTS of cinema’s horror genre may well know the debt they owe to Mary Wollstonecraft…
Film Review / ‘Mr Stein Goes Online’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Mr Stein Goes Online’ (M) *** THE English-speaking title of writer/director Stephane Robelin’s romantic fable doesn’t exactly reflect its French original…
Film Review / ‘Back to Burgundy’ (M) **** and a half Film Review / ‘Back to Burgundy’ (M) **** and a half FEW films have charmed and satisfied me more than this family saga set in a…
Film Review / ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ (MA) *** Film Review / ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ (MA) *** THIS is a sort-of sequel to director Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 actioner about a somewhat clandestine…
Film Review / ‘Two is a Family’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Two is a Family’ (M) *** IN 2013, Mexican writer/director Eugenio Derbez wrote, directed and played a principal role in “Instructions…
Film Review / ‘No Date, No Signature’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘No Date, No Signature’ (M) *** In 1985, post-revolution Iranian films burst on to Australian screens with “The Runner”. In later…
Film Review / ‘Edie’ (M) **** Film Review / ‘Edie’ (M) **** FOLLOWING three decades of caring for a vegetable husband and three years after his death,…
Film Review / ‘Ideal Home’ (MA) *** Film Review / ‘Ideal Home’ (MA) *** STEVE Coogan can be blisteringly comical; pathetic, raunchy, even adventurous (information about his off-screen life…