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A musical number reminiscent of Chicago absolutely seals Rob Marshall’s directorial signature on MARY POPPINS RETURNS, the sequel fifty four years in the coming.
Marshall, best known for helming the Oscar winning musical, Chicago, brings a touch of the …
“Christ, I miss the Cold War” M famously spits in Casino Royale. She’d certainly be spitting if she missed Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest film, COLD WAR.
Spanning fifteen years across Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Yugoslavia, COLD WAR meticulously recreates the era …
An opening shot of a pussy languidly licking itself on a sun drenched bed instantly sets up a bucolic atmosphere, a realm that is at odds with the sophisticated world the girl sharing the feline’s sheets will soon be plunged …
Move over Phryne Fisher, there’s a new female investigator on the block and she’s just as stunning, sassy and a dogged sleuth for the truth.
Allusions to Phryne Fisher may be a slight furphy as the sassy sleuth is actually …
In any year, there is a multitude of marvellous movies that the masses miss.
These are the forgotten, the neglected and the lost that need to be remembered, regarded and resurrected.
Over a ton of them are are given restorative …
Perfectly placed for some serious holiday reading, Robert Jeffreys’ MAN AT THE WINDOW heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice on the Australian crime writing scene.
Set in Perth in late 1965, MAN AT THE WINDOW involves the investigation …
Clink of ice, splashes of liquor, petty larceny, writers block, Blossom Dearie. These are some of the ingredients of CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? The film version of Lee Israel’s confessional of fraud, forgery and posthumous profiteering.
Lee Israel never …
What a wonderful world, with its skies of blue and clouds of white, the brightness of day, the dark sacred night.
Only the dark sacred night can be a dark scary place, an unhallowed precinct for predators preying specifically on …
Theresa May may be the British Prime Minister but it is Fiona Maye who is the eminent High Court judge in London presiding with wisdom and compassion over ethically complex cases of family law in the film version of Ian …
A boy and a horse sounds like the premise of a Disney movie, but LEAN ON PETE is no saccharine equestrian tale.
With the pace of a trot rather than a canter, LEAN ON PETE is lean on action but …