Exhilarating and ludicrous, Eagle Eye takes conspiracy theory on an extreme cyber-terrorism ride, packing the screen with non-stop smash and grab action as the clock ticks down on the end of American liberty as we know it. This is the kind of high concept, big budget cinema that Hollywood does best - a handful of […]
It is several hundred years into our future, and man has left for the safety of the stars, having polluted the Earth beyond recognition. It seems, however, that the last man out forgot to turn off the lights – for one sole droid continues labouring away at cleaning up the mess we left behind. WALL-E, […]
In much the same way dogs can hear sounds outside our range of perception, the mind of the three-year-old is wired for a sense of comedy outside our range of understanding. “The bird is in the tree,” my son will say when I ask why he has collapsed in paroxysms of laughter. It is exactly […]
It’s no easy task getting a feature film made, let alone screened – and so a one week run at a major cinema chain is cause for some kind of celebration for The Plex, a new Australian comedy from Tim Boyle. The film is billed as being in the style of Kevin Smith – the […]
From the dramatic opening shot of this film, you know you’re in for something extraordinarily different. The cinematic world we’re thrust into is heightened, dreamlike and haunting, an animated hallucination in blues and orange, wild dogs streaming through the streets, as relentless as the score. When we come out of the dream sequence, we’re still […]
After winning an Academy Award for his short film Six Shooter in 2006, Irish playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh hits the screen running with his first feature film In Bruges. And what a debut - it’s a dark beauty, full of wonderfully clever dialogue, beautifully crafted scenes and enough of an undercurrent of something forlorn […]
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