If Australian films have frustrated you recently for their lack of driving narrative and shortage of things actually happening on screen, then The Square will definitely restore your belief that home grown cinema can entertain. It’s a gripping story that slowly and steadily spins out of control, fuelled by mistrust, suspicion and guilt, and is […]
If you run your eyes down the list of films that Anand Tucker has directed, you’d be forgiven for thinking he made a very deliberate effort to become a specialist in adaptations of personal memoirs. After years of making television documentaries about people in the sports and arts worlds, Tucker made his first feature about […]
With the Olympics a mere stones throw away, the propaganda machine pervading Chinese culture is in full swing. It isn’t just coincidence that we have Kung Fu Panda in cinemas right now. The next wave of the kung fu assault is another children’s action adventure set in China, featuring its two biggest (film) exports, Jackie […]
Grumpy old man Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco) makes a point of his displeasure with his nursing home carer by writing it on the bathroom wall with his own excrement. Thus begins Tamara Jenkins second feature The Savages. When what seems an act of defiance begins to look more and more like the onset of dementia, […]
What starts as a fascinating examination of the controversy surrounding the medal ceremony for the 200 meters sprint at the 1968 Olympics, ends up more of a salute to Australian runner Peter Norman, the silver medallist and the white man who became caught up in the divisive politics of race relations in the USA. The […]
After his disastrous last film Norbit, Eddy Murphy seems to have learned a few lessons. In Meet Dave he has reduced the number of characters he plays from three to two and has a much more coherent approach to squeezing the laughs out of the audience. Murphy didn’t write or produce this one and seems […]
Young bride-to-be Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has a dream (queue music). She wants to get married knowing who her real dad is. She has uncovered the diary of her free-spirit mother Donna (Meryl Streep) which lists three possibilities, heartbreaker Sam (Pierce Brosnan), writer Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) and headbanger-turned-uptight executive Harry (Colin Firth), but the diary doesn’t […]
When Canadian born filmmaker Yung Chang decided to visit the homeland of his Chinese grandfather on the banks of the Yangtze River, he was stopped in his tracks by a powerful image. As he approached the riverside to board a cruise ship for a tour of the area about to be flooded by the Three […]
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