For those who like their movies stripped back to the basics of story and performance, this is the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner from last year. It’s a simple and sometimes harrowing tale of small lives and bad decisions, made in a style reminiscent of the French cinema of the 1960’s.
Writing and directing duo […]
What is most extraordinary about this beautiful and gracious film is that we have never heard this word before. Kanyini – or the complex interconnectedness that underpins aboriginal culture – is such a simple and powerful idea, and so sublimely explained by Bob Randall, the wise old narrator of the film, that all Australians should […]
This is a wholesome, straightforward children’s tale about caring for the environment, which manages to get through ninety minutes without a shred of cynicism. What! Do they still make movies like that? Well, yes – but there is a cost. There are few surprises, and I expect that whilst parents might like to think that […]
Sexy, snappy and blending the improbable, the impossible and the indestructible, Corey Yuen, the well known Hong Kong action director, brings this popular video game to the screen in a deliberately overly-dramatic and sometimes repetitive way.
In Charlie’s Angels style, we meet three female fighters – Kasumi (Devon Aoki), Tina (Jaime Pressly) and Christy (Australian […]
Animated farms can be fun, especially once the farmer’s left for the day. Then the chewing and the mooing can stop, and the party can begin. And the biggest party animal in Barnyard is Otis the Cow, (voice of Kevin James) who is son and heir to the over-conscientious farmyard leader Ben the Cow (voice […]
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