Review: ‘Margaret’ (MA) ???? ½
I AVOID answering the question, what’s the best film I’ve ever seen, but along with the 16 hours of “Heimat”,...
Canberra film reviews
THE mum and her two ankle-biters were one row behind and a couple of seats…
THIRTY-three years ago, Ridley Scott’s “Alien” became a cult extra-terrestrial fantasy horror hit. Spacecraft Prometheus…
MEL Gibson co-wrote and stars in this vigorous actioner directed by Adrian Grunberg and played…
Review: ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting’ (M) ?
APPROACHING Kirk Jones’ film without expectations, I should not have been disappointed by it. But…
Review: ‘Declaration of War’ (M) ? ? ? ?
I CAN’T tell whether it was deliberate or merely a serendipitous coincidence that shortly after…
Review: ‘Footnote’ (PG) ? ? ? ½
IN this 2012 Oscar-nominee for best Foreign Language Film, Israeli writer/director Joseph Cedar sets a…
THE screenplay, which director Jean-Pierre Ameris co-wrote with Phillipe Blasband, belabours a single joke for…
AFTER reading Paul Torday’s book, I gave copies to two friends. So I awaited the…
SOME may find it strange that the debut film from one-time real-estate agent JC Chandor,…
IT’S more rewarding to ignore than give credence to the PR hyperbole accompanying Alexander Payne’s…
COMPARING this English-language version of the first volume of Stieg Larsen’s Millennium Trilogy with its…
MODEST folk, New Yorkers. They celebrate New Year’s Eve as if they had copyright on it. That’s…
WILL Davies’ story for this kind-of prequel to the “Shrek” films ignores no possible source…
IT’S fair enough for Canberra to claim award-winning documentarist Tom Zubrycki as one of its…
THIS Italian production tells a trio of love stories. The first unfolds in that deliciously…
THIS first Samoan feature film begins with Saili harvesting mature taro growing around the gravestones…
THIS kidzfilm for every age comes from Aardman Films, that exemplary British claymation house that…
LIFE’S a bitch and then you die. Jonathan Teplitzky’s full-on exploration of that aphorism is raw,…
