HUGE amounts of love, energy and determination drive this delightful Australian documentary illuminating Michelle Leonard’s…
Dougal Macdonald
Dougal Macdonald is the former film reviewer for CityNews”
MICHAEL Moore loves the US so much that his documentary-making career has shaken America’s tree…
WHAT? Three stars for a fairytale? Has this reviewer lost his edge? No, he hasn’t.…
THE 2015 Cannes Film Festival jury for Un Certain Regard, recognising young talent and encouraging…
CARTOGRAPHERS call it Mount Everest, after a British surveyor-general in India. Locals call it Chomolungma.…
THERE are notable exceptions, but it’s a truism of cinema that sequels seldom match the…
ITALIAN filmmaker Luca Guadagnino perseveres bravely with David Kajganich’s screenplay that takes off when an…
THE screenplay that Guy Hibbert crafted for Gavin Hood’s riveting military/political/techno-thriller of our time on…
NOBODY would call the plays of Henrik Ibsen a bundle of laughs. Writer/director Simon Stone’s…
TO tell a futuristic story (at last report, the city’s famous places are still undamaged)…
ABOUT 10 minutes into Louis Leterrier’s film of a screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, I…
DIRECTOR Dan Trachtenberg’s film, in an unsubstantiated way, references JJ Abrams’ film “Cloverfield”, a catastrophe…
