The first movie of the Christmas 2020 cinema season delivers a different view of Chris Cringle. DOUGAL MACDONALD explains how in his review of "Fatman".
Dougal Macdonald
Dougal Macdonald is the former film reviewer for CityNews”
"I’M uncertain whether I, a straight male, am an appropriate person to review 'Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt)', which is about a teenage girl who somehow knows that she is lesbian but is scared to come out," writes DOUGAL MACDONALD.
"It’s rowdy, it’s dramatically transparent and it makes no demand on the watcher’s brain." Reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD looks at "The Comeback Trail".
"Hillbilly Elegy" is not a fun movie, says reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD, The acting is powerful. The vocabulary comes straight from the gutter.
Movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD says "Radioactive" treads a difficult line through an awesome assembly of facts, science, personal tragedies and glories, and French political shenanigans.
"After the film ended, the six women in the cinema began to applaud. Movie audiences don’t often do that. I found myself joining in." DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews "Brazen Hussies".
DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews a "delectable Agatha Christie-style caper whose main characters include a famous literary critic, a deceased best-selling author, his bookworm daughter, an ambitious young publisher and an up-and-coming writer”.
"Any movie about sheep is bound to strike a melodious chord in Australia, isn’t it?" DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews "Rams".
“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” chronicles two days during which Autumn and bestie Skylar travel to and from rural Pennsylvania to New York in search of a termination of Autumn’s unintended pregnancy. It pulls no punches, says reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
"Baby Done’s" screenplay squeezes out every possible social, emotional, medical, obstetric and relationship problem that might confront a woman in her first pregnancy, writes movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
Here's a "wonderfully satisfying combination of narrative style and gently insistent drama that steers clear of message or unresolvable tension". DOUGAL MACDONALD reviews "On the Rocks".
DOUGAL MACDONALD review a mildly amusing movie that tells about four veterans planning to repeat their escape from a Vietnamese PoW camp. Escape? From where? From an Adelaide veterans’ retirement village.
