Thanks for Sharing (MA) ****
A top-drawer cast tells writer/director Stuart Blumberg’s intelligent and challenging story about people obsessed with an excessive behaviour driven by...
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AT last, an off-the-planet movie that obeys the laws of physics without trying to kid…
SOTIRIS Dounoukos can still remember when news of one of Canberra's most infamous crimes broke…
TO avoid having their work consigned to the shelf marked X-rated (“Forbes” magazine estimates the…
Review: ‘You Will Be My Son’ (M) ****
WIDOWED vigneron Paul considers his son Martin (Laurent Deutsch) to lack the qualities necessary for…
Review: ‘Housos vs Authority’ (MA) *** and a half
TO date, my life has been sheltered from writer/director/producer/lead actor Paul Fenech’s “Housos”, now on…
Review: ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ (M) ***
DIRECTOR Colin Trevarrow and writer Derek Connolly have confected a small but well-formed comedy with…
“Savages” (MA) *** and a half
ONLY governments have the power to send citizens to certain death in the name of…
IN 2002, Damien Oliver rode the Irish-trained Media Puzzle to Melbourne Cup victory. Next day,…
NONE of the husband candidates Allie (Anna Faris) has bed-tested have matched her selection criteria.…
IN “Tabloid”, documentarist Errol Morris lets the people involved tell what British print media in…
FOUR stars for this Tasmanian-grown eco-thriller forgives little visual moments that, while their validity doesn’t…
RICHARD Avoade’s adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s novel of transition from childhood’s innocence to the confusion…
FILMS exploring benign transmogrification – “Trading Places”, “Big” – achieved fame because writers and directors…
NINETEEN-year-old Kim’s (Felicity Jones) childhood achievements as a champion skateboarder are history. Now she lives with…
THE flimsy plot of this fantasy splatter melodrama proposes that a bridge collapses. One member of…
“AN Education” gave me high expectations of director Lone Scherfig, but novelist David Nichols’s screenplay…
I NOW understand why commercial TV was going gangbusters promoting this bucket of garbage during…
