Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
The Eighties was the decade that put the roar into Mickey Rourke’s career. It was the era of his awesome aura, beginning in 1981 with his incendiary portrayal of an arsonist in Body Heat and playing out in 1989’s Johnny …
Can hope trigger hallucination to the magnitude that one accepts the homecoming of a family member after a little over three years where the change of appearance and speech is remarkable to the point of impossible?
That’s the premise of …
If THE LONE RANGER is an attempt to rebirth the Western, I’m afraid it’s still born. With its unwieldy length, imposition of an old Tonto retelling the story, a dreadful deadpan Depp bordering on dull, this poisons the well of …
It’s interesting, ironic even, that the Fourth of July is the release date of Alex Gibney’s remarkable documentary WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS.
American Independence Day seems a suitable date to examine an act that has its perpetrator, …
An absolute must for any Australian, whether they are theatre goers or not, is the three part documentary RAISING THE CURTAIN available on DVD through Madman.
A celebration of Australian theatre, it mirrors Australia’s cultural and social evolution, performance being …
DEAD MAN DOWN (MA) teams Colin Farrell with the original girl with the dragon tattoo, Noomi Rapace, in a screwball guns a blazing revenger.
It reteams Rapace with her Dargon Tatoo director, Niels Arden Oplev in his American feature debut…
Opening the Spanish Film Festival tomorrow and then going into general release shortly after, A GUN IN EACH HAND evokes some swaggering macho Western, but in this case of this Catalan comedy, it’s a delicious and sublime irony.
An ensemble …
SATELLITE BOY (M) could well be the STORM BOY of its time. Again a sublime sense of place in a beautiful part of country, this time the Kimberley, around Wyndham and the Bungle Bungles, and again with an eco message, …
Google gets the giggles in THE INTERNSHIP, re-teaming THE WEDDING CRASHERS duo of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
Here they play a couple of dinosaurs whose time has run out – literally. Salesmen for a watch company, wrist chronometers have …
What the Dickens! GREAT EXPECTATIONS transposed to Arkansas with Matthew McConachy as Magwitch?
Well, not quite, but MUD from writer/director Jeff Nichols certainly has echoes of Great Expectations as well as Mark Twain’s Huck Finn tales.
Matthew McConaughy seems to …