Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Time travel. The concept is mind mucking and brain bending. Hot on the chronosynclastic infundibula heels of the splendid LOOPERS comes the sublime and sweetly sensational gentle indie piece called SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (M) where a looney loner in Washington
Here’s a bit of knowledge. This is the definition of Career.
Noun: An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life and with opportunities for progress.
Verb: Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction.
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS was always going to be a hard act to follow…But while TO ROME WITH LOVE does not soar like last year’s masterpiece it is still one of the better comedies of the year.
TO ROME WITH LOVE
Wise guys, goodfellas, reservoir dogs. You dig the lingo, get the jargon, like the genre, you’ll dig, get and like KILLING THEM SOFTLY (MA) the latest film from CHOPPER writer/director, Andrew Dominik.
Returning to the milieu of contemporary crims and
LAWLESS (MA) is a prohibition era crime saga of bootlegging, throat cutting, moon shining, and gun shooting from the team that had the temerity to transfer the Western to outback Australia.
Sure we had sly grog and illegal stills seconded
LOOPER (M) is an innovative addition to the time travel canon.
LOOPER is set in the near future and involves a group of hit men called Loopers who work for a crime syndicate in the further future. Their bosses send
Water molecules, we are told at the commencement of this Theatre as Aquarium experience, are amicable atoms which like attachment and are tactile and societal. Quite a contrast to the techno set and situations we are presented with in this
THE BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (M) is an extraordinary film, a tempestuous magic realist movie with all the turbulence of a force 10 tornado generated by a hurricane performance by Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy, a sassy six year old
Idiosyncratic savant. That’s how I’d describe film- maker Whit Stillman.
From his feature film debut, METROPOLITAN to his fourth and latest film DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, I have been a fan. Original, audacious and always Whit-smart, Stillman’s movies are stars that
Originally titled Nobel’s Last Will, LAST WILL (M) is the latest cinematic realisation in a spate of Scandinavian crime thrillers based on Nordic novels.
Like the most celebrated of these ice cold conspiracy and corruption capers, The Millennium Trilogy, LAST