Film Review / ‘Downsizing’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Downsizing’ (M) *** and a half WRITER Alexander Payne has confected a screenplay capable of wearing a number of valid generic…
Film Review / ‘Paddington 2’ (PG) *** Film Review / ‘Paddington 2’ (PG) *** Sadly, Michael Bond, who created Paddington Bear to delight children of every age, died on…
Film Review / ‘The Florida Project’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Florida Project’ (M) *** and a half WRITER/director Sean Baker pulls no punches telling this well-crafted story about life in the underbelly…
Film Review / ‘Ferdinand’ (G) *** Film Review / ‘Ferdinand’ (G) *** IN 1935, American children’s author Munro Leaf took less than an hour to write the…
Film Review / ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ (M) * and a half Film Review / ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ (M) * and a half THE production company may be Lucasfilm but the corporate muscle behind the eighth title in…
Film Review / ‘Wonder Wheel’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Wonder Wheel’ (M) *** and a half TELLING a tale of love and life against a dramatic foreground of passion and domestic…
Film Review / ‘The Disaster Artist’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘The Disaster Artist’ (M) *** AT the first Canberra screening of what the advance publicity was touting as a hilarious…
Film Review / ‘The Secret Scripture’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Secret Scripture’ (M) *** and a half THIS is the second film to have a Canberra season that focuses on the pervasive…
Film Review / ‘Wonder’ (PG) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Wonder’ (PG) *** and a half WRITER/director Stephen Chbosky’s film is a family saga that confronts issues about growing up in…
Film Review / ‘Only the Brave’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Only the Brave’ (M) *** DIRECTOR Joseph Kosinski’s film pays homage to a team of Arizona firefighters and tells a…
Film Review / ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ (PG) *** Film Review / ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ (PG) *** THIS is an easy film to watch but you might be forgiven for being a…
Film Review / ‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ (PG) *** Film Review / ‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ (PG) *** IT'S nearly a century since Daphne Milne (Margot Robbie) presented husband Alan (Domhnall Gleeson) with…