Without question one of the most striking Australian films of recent years, Wasted On The Young confirms the visual storytelling confidence of new director Ben. C. Lucas. In his early thirties and now looking for a project in LA after the critical reception he has already received for the film, Lucas tells a very contemporary, […]
It’s been a long wait for the latest film from Peter Weir, a director who thinks deeply, works carefully and who has so often incorporated the theme of man’s relationship to the landscape in his storytelling. It takes foreground here in a survival tale of escapees from a Russian gulag who must walk 4000 miles […]
As much of the best English-language cinema in the world jostles for the gold statues on offer at this year’s Academy Awards, it’s edifying to be reminded what lies at the other end of the quality spectrum. The far end. Probably the worst film I have seen for many years, it’s hard to find any […]
Topped with lashings of paranoia and a couple of high-speed car chases through the snowy strassen of Berlin, Unknown is an increasingly improbable and easily watchable action thriller with Liam Neeson grimacing his way through memory loss and the murky secrets of bio-tech espionage.
Without question one of the most striking Australian films of the past five years, new director Ben. C. Lucas stamps his visual style on a very contemporary – and at times very confronting story about the disturbing power games that manipulate and mangle the lives of young people when there are no barriers on behaviour.
After its dramatic opening with a tsunami tearing across the screen and a near-death experience for French journalist Marie (Cecile de France), Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter ebbs into a melancholy tale, not so much about the afterlife as about its teasingly morbid lure on three people in different countries. Gliding between Paris, London and San Francisco […]
This soulless revenge movie where the uber-slick, uber-hackneyed design takes precedence over story, character and theme may stir a few looking for a flick with fast cars, slow men and the rule of the gun, but it’s mostly laborious and often ludicrous. Trying hard to meld Sergio Leone’s extreme self-consciousness with Quentin Tarantino’s slick violence, […]
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