Film – Reviews Archive

The seventh annual Underground Film Festival has announced the line up for the 2013 festival during at its launch night with a special 10th anniversary screening of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room at the Metro Theatre July 31. The Sydney Underground will take …

In all of its genuine messiness, its insistence on a multi-stranded narrative, its capricious flaunting and taunting of truth, Stories We Tell finally does what I have been wanting to see in cinema for years. Sarah Polley tells the story of her …

The Canadian Possible Worlds Film Festival is back but in its eighth year has expanded its focus to include films from the United States. From August 8 to 18 at the Dendy Opera Quays and Dendy Newtown and from August 21 to 23 at ARC Cinema (Canberra) …

It’s been six years since the release of Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s last offering in the non-episodic trilogy of films known as the “Blood and Cornetto Trilogy”. Along with their referencing a different flavour Cornetto ice cream flavour, each …

  Hang on to your seat, clap on your 3D glasses and prepare to be bored silly by this mega budget sci-fi from director Guillermo del Toro. Pacific Rim stars Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh and Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori, two robot pilots who …

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to the Imax theatre but I made the effort to see the new Superman movie Man of Steel there and I was not sorry. The 3D effects, especially in the first …

Seth Rogen’s vivid imagination sucks in the viewer, transporting him to Los Angeles, once a bejewelled city, now metamorphosed into one big hell of fire, cannibals and insanity as the Almighty grasps the Universe in His hands to end it all. Jesus! …

Oh Boy is the creation of first-time director Jan Ole Gerster. In 2013, the film received the most prestigious German film award, the Lola, and has audiences fascinated by its unique look at everyday life in Berlin. The film screened during this year’s Sydney Film …

If you want to get an insight into Putin’s Russia check out Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer, a documentary by a British and a Russian director about the official reaction to a performance by female punk band Pussy Riot in a Russian Orthodox cathedral …

Documentary movies made for the big screen generally present a dichotomy. The aim to tell the truth, get the raw facts out, is credible, but then the desire to make it a box office success or attract large audiences can lead to …