ON June 9 only three new films opened in Canberra. On paper, none promised much.…
Dougal Macdonald
Dougal Macdonald is the former film reviewer for CityNews”
THIS rom-com chick flick is the third film that I watched on 9 June. I…
IF I hadn’t undertaken to review three new films each week, I would never have…
THE proposition in writer/director Edoardo Maria Falcone’s film is that authoritarian Tommaso (Marco Giallini), appalled…
CANBERRA cinema audiences aren’t given to clapping. But they clapped after previewing Taika Waititi’s comedy…
THIS film does not tell the story that Lewis Carroll wrote. It’s a fictional fantasy…
WHEN a car in Hollywood crashes through a house, an adolescent boy sneaking a midnight…
IN a Yorkshire church, on a stained-glass window memorialising Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926)…
THE time scale of this feature documentary begins in Italy, 305 years ago, with the…
WRITER/director Lorene Scafaria’s film about the relationship between a widow and her unmarried adult daughter…
UNLESS you’re a groupie passionate about military hardware, mobile phones or TV equipment, the…
I AM told that the antique computer game “Pacman” provides the seed from which the…
