Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
That most iconic symbol of Australian domesticity, the Hills hoist, takes centre stage of Griffin’s 21st anniversary production of THE BOYS
A totem of the Australian dream, the hoist spins hysterically at the play’s beginning, an eerie harbinger of the
Set in the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands, THE DESCENDANTS (M) is the latest marvel from director Alexander Payne, whose string of successes includes ELECTION, ABOUT SCHMIDT and SIDEWAYS. As noted in the prologue, families are like archipelagos – each
With a fascinating title design by Tim Miller and groovy music theme, a torture scene that threatens the male protagonist’s manhood and the protagonist played by Daniel Craig, the English language Hollywood studio version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON
2012 is a bumper year for Conan Doyle’s deductive detective, Sherlock Holmes, with a new film, a new television series and a new novel. The quality is in ascending order.
Guy Ritchie’s latest franchise film, GAME OF SHADOWS, pits Robert
Sink the Belgrano and pass me the Oscar. La Stupenda Streep is awesomely scary as Maggie T, the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain.
From a screenplay expertly fashioned by Abi Morgan and intelligently helmed by Phyllida Lloyd we
Are Glenn Close and her creative cohorts having a lend?
One has to wonder when the two leading characters in ALBERT NOBBS (M), is a Mister Nobbs and a Miss Dawes? Knobs and doors, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no
I am happy to report that TIN TIN (PG) is great fun and a triumph of 3D animation.
The pic gets off to a fine start with a highly imaginative and very busy title sequence which telegraphs the story is
THE SKIN I LIVE IN is the latest kooky, spooky melodrama from Almodovar.
In this macabre story, lifted from the novel “Mygale” by Thierry Jonquet, and fashioned by Pedro and Agustin Almodovar, Antonio Banderas returns to the Almodovar fold after
Not quite as successful or sustaining as ARTHUR CHRISTMAS, Dreamworks Animation’s PUSS IN BOOTS (G) is nevertheless an enjoyable romp, a spinoff of the remarkable Shrek series.
Antonio Banderas reprises his role as the fashion footwear feline, one cool cat,
When a mortuary worker finds Annabel and Enoch, the two protagonists of Gus Van Sant’s latest film RESTLESS (M) scoping out the morgue and asks “Can I help you?” Enoch’s jaunty reply is “No thanks. We’re just browsing.”
Enoch is