Director John Maybury carefully mixes the real life of Dylan Thomas with fiction to create a beautiful and touching tribute to romantic love and friendship. Matthew Rhys plays Dylan Thomas, the poet who sat out the Second World War with more than a bottle or two to fuel his famous poetry. Impoverished and scorned as […]
If you’re Australian and watched Australian movies of the 1970’s and 1980’s, chances are you’ll remember Picnic At Hanging Rock, Breaker Morant, and My Brilliant Career. They’re all classy period pieces, finely crafted films that won awards and acclaim at home and across the world. But the chances are that you won’t remember a whole […]
Loss, memory and the spirit of adventure are themes explored in this nicely cast but poorly directed soap of a feature, one that premiered two years ago but which has struggled since to get a cinematic release – for good reasons.
Jessica Lange plays Arvilla, a romantic soul who’s just lost her life partner Joe, […]
It’s easy to generalize away the troubled events of other nations in a history of dates and statistics. Take Iran for example - there was the fall of the Shah in 1979, followed by the Iran-Iraq war that lasted for the next eight years with a million Iranians killed. With such a dramatic big-picture narrative, […]
Whatever the opposite of edgy is, Baby Mama is it. Safe, sanitised, middle of the road, clean and wholesome, it tells the story of a good corporate woman Kate (Tina Fey) who works for a heath-food company and who lives in a beautifully clean apartment in a chic part of New York. Kate is smart, […]
If you’re Australian and watched Australian movies of the 1970’s and 1980’s, chances are you’ll remember Picnic At Hanging Rock, Breaker Morant, and My Brilliant Career. They’re all period pieces, finely crafted films that won awards and acclaim at home and across the world. Chances are you won’t remember a whole swag of other Australian […]
It took Tom McCarthy a while to figure out what he wanted to do in life. After starting a business studies degree, he switched to philosophy. But that wasn’t quite right either - although it inspired him to start writing. Then in his mid-twenties McCarthy discovered acting. After working for a few years in sketch […]
Billed as an action film in the Bourne trilogy tradition, Taken will certainly entertain in a battering-ram kind of way, Luc Besson’s linear and formulaic script slickly directed by fellow Frenchman Pierre Morel in this his second film as director, after a strong career as a cinematographer.
In almost every scene is Liam Neeson who […]
After the irreverent publicity for the film, and the jaunty opening five minutes – complete with dancing Osama animations – Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size Me fame) settles down to a more serious examination of American foreign policy and meets the locals in the countries where the effects of those policies seem to be having […]
In August last year a group of Iraq war veterans in the USA started a campaign to abolish the practice of “stop-loss” a legal loophole in a soldier’s contract that forces him to continue serving in the military even though his contract has been completed. The stop-loss debate has been a bitter one, with new […]
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