Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
MUSTANG is a must see.
Nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, MUSTANG is a magnitude seven cinema experience, quite possibly THE Go To, Go Girl movie of the year.
MUSTANG starts in the sublimely sultry, sea …
Thirteen years? No. It cannot be thirteen years since Finding Nemo graced our screens and made us fall in love with a bunch of cherished undersea characters.
But, yes, it is been that bakers dozen of years and finally there …
Is this the real world, or is this just fantasy?
In Martin McKenna’s Melbourne based independently produced feature film, IS THIS THE REAL WORLD?, his protagonist doesn’t think much of the real world, a sphere of compromise, chaos, and …
A stunned Lumet is an apt description of the Jodie Foster helmed MONEY MONSTER.
In what enticingly promises to be Network meets Dog Day Afternoon,
MONEY MONSTER merely becomes a dog’s breakfast of a movie, where the dog doesn’t …
Tommaso is a respected heart surgeon, an atheist with a God complex. A man of science, he is of the opinion that his medical skills trump miracles any day and his performance in the operating theatre supersedes any residual superstition …
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOPHIE STARK may be the best film you read this year.
Sophie Stark is the stage name of a film director whose trajectory is observed by a number of intimates; Alison, an actress, Robbie her …
Susan Sarandon is in gold medalist acting form as the gold meddler mum, Marnie, in THE MEDDLER.
Still coming to terms with widowhood, the empty-nester has moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be nearer her daughter, Lori, played …
Richard Madden has a nice quality. He was absolutely charming as Prince Charming in Kevin Brannagh’s recent Cinderella, and he exerts the same charm, albeit, a charming charlatan in the bombastic B grader, BASTILLE DAY.
He plays Michael, an American …
Infinitely fine film that makes maths add up to a grand sum of entertainment, writer/director Matthew Brown’s THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY shows all the pluses and none of he minuses in a sterling piece of bio-pic the equal of, …
The film chosen for the launch of last year’s Lavazza Italian Film Festival was Nanni Moretti’s latest Cannes festival pleaser, MIA MADRE, a mix of melancholy and madcap, starring Margherita Buy as Margherita, a film director juggling a production …