Film Review / ‘Sully’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Sully’ (M) *** and a half WHAT a filmmaker Clint Eastwood is, at age 86 still directing films that engage our…
Film Review / ‘Don’t Breathe’ (MA) ** and a half Film Review / ‘Don’t Breathe’ (MA) ** and a half IT cost less than $US10 million to make. It made three times that in its…
Film Review / ‘Blood Father’ (MA) ** and a half Film Review / ‘Blood Father’ (MA) ** and a half IN 2008, Sylvester Stallone planned to make an actioner based on Peter Craig’s novel about…
Film Review / ‘Sunset Song’ (M) **** and a half Film Review / ‘Sunset Song’ (M) **** and a half THIS beautiful, emotionally powerful film spends 132 minutes telling the story of Chris (Agyness Deyn)…
Film Review / ‘Ben-Hur’ (M) ** Film Review / ‘Ben-Hur’ (M) ** THE many inaccuracies and anachronisms in the fifth version of Lew Wallace’s 1880 historical novel…
Film Review / ‘David Brent – Life on the Road’ (MA) ** Film Review / ‘David Brent – Life on the Road’ (MA) ** WRITTEN by Ricky Gervais. Produced by Ricky Gervais. Directed by Ricky Gervais. Starring Ricky Gervais.…
Film Review / ‘Free State of Jones’ (MA) **** Film Review / ‘Free State of Jones’ (MA) **** WRITER (with Leonard Hartman) and director Gary Ross has made a 145-minute film illuminating a…
Film Review / ‘Tickled’ (MA) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Tickled’ (MA) *** and a half COMPETITIVE endurance tickling. The IOC isn’t likely to approve it for future Olympiads, but it’s…
Film Review / ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ (PG) *** Film Review / ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ (PG) *** IN 1966, Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut spent a week discussing the art and craft…
Film Review / ‘High-Rise’ (MA) * Film Review / ‘High-Rise’ (MA) * SEEKING a dystopian, futurist, socio-economic thriller that spends nearly two hours pulling no punches about…
Film Review / ‘Bad Moms’ (MA) * Film Review / ‘Bad Moms’ (MA) * HAVING thrown her husband out for committing online adultery, Amy (Mila Kunis), whose life since…
Film Review / ‘Down Under’ (MA) ** Film Review / ‘Down Under’ (MA) ** AFTER using archive footage to set the scene for his film about the night after…