Hanna Arendt gets the smart, nuanced biopic she deserves, says the the advertising blurb, but diving in deeper its fascinating how the unhappy German-Jewish New York-based author reached her incendiary conclusions about Eichmann and the ‘banality of evil’.
Margaretha Von …
Starting in 1920 with a silent version, there have been umpteen adaptations of Emily Bronte’s Gothic masterpiece staring luminaries of screen greats– Laurence Oliver, Merle Oberon, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche– even a Monte Python sketch in which the story was …
In New York City during the 1950s, Marty Supreme (played by Timothée Chalamet) wants to be the greatest table tennis player of all time and will stop at nothing to see it come true. After suffering a definitive loss at …
Guillermo del Toro’s long awaited lavish Gothic horror was a passion project, separating it from the pack of past Frankenstein flicks. It’s, at it’s core, a beautiful central performance for a remix. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac hamming it up to …
Well, GOOD FORTUNE is certainly not an art film. On one level, it’s a rather quaint romp, which has its good points, and is often mildly amusing. Certainly members of the preview audience were prompted to laugh out loud at …
In the 1990s when Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) was seen as controversial in the U.S. and got banned in several states, one of the sports’ top performers, Mark Kerr (played by Dwayne Johnson) is set to compete in the Pride …
Thousands of fans turned out at Melbourne Central on Friday May 16 to catch a glimpse of Hugh Jackman, (Wolverine), Peter Dinklage (Bolivar Trask) and Fan Bingbing (Blink) walk the red carpet for the Australian premiere. Although Hugh Jackman received …
Climate change, global warming and environmental degradation are catch phrases of this generation. So it is appropriate that young people are enlisted to fight these global threats. The RISE OF THE ECO WARRIORS shows one group who did just that. …
Fresh from her Oscar tipped turn in the current box office smash, BLUE JASMINE, Cate Blanchett also shines in THE TURNING, the audacious and ambitious rendering to the screen of Tim Winton’s story cycle of the same name.
The seventeen …
