Film “I Am Heath Ledger” (M) *** Film “I Am Heath Ledger” (M) *** IN the latest of Canadian documentarist Derik Murray’s “I Am …” series about entertainment industry…
Film Review / ‘Whiteley’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Whiteley’ (M) *** I WISH I had a Whiteley hanging in my house. When dinner-table conversation flagged, a…
Film Review / ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ (PG) ** Film Review / ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ (PG) ** WRITER W Bruce Cameron adapted his own novel into the screenplay for director Lasse Hallstrom…
News Review / ‘Get Out’ (MA) *** News Review / ‘Get Out’ (MA) *** YOU might be forgiven for expecting an echo of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” when…
Film Review / ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ (MA) *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ (MA) *** and a half ANGELA Workman’s screenplay for NZ-born director Niki Caro adapts Diane Ackerman’s book telling how a…
Film Review / ‘Free Fire’ (MA) * Film Review / ‘Free Fire’ (MA) * “A WELL-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of…
Film Review / ‘Bad Girl’ (MA) ** Film Review / ‘Bad Girl’ (MA) ** THIS is the first live-action feature by writer/director Fin Edquist whose career in the moving-images…
Film Review / ‘Things To Come’ (M) **** Film Review / ‘Things To Come’ (M) **** A FILM In which the principal character teaches philosophy at a Paris high school must…
Film Review / ‘Their Finest’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Their Finest’ (M) *** and a half DANISH director Lone Scherfig’s film takes us back to 1940 with a dramatisation of Lissa…
Film Review / ‘Raw’ (R) **** Film Review / ‘Raw’ (R) **** BEFORE I saw writer/director Julia Ducournau’s film, I heard electronic media comment, whether apocryphal or…
Film Review / ‘Berlin Syndrome’ (MA) *** Film Review / ‘Berlin Syndrome’ (MA) *** BRISBANE girl Clare (Teresa Palmer) arrives in Berlin to photograph architecture for a magazine. On…
Film Review / ‘Colossal’ (M) ** and a half Film Review / ‘Colossal’ (M) ** and a half MUCH of the plot of Spanish film-maker Nacho Vigalondo‘s sci-fi-comedy-actioner-monster-fantasy movie set in Mainview, middle-America,…