Film – Reviews Archive

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 …

Filmmaker John Waters and drag queen extraordinaire Divine are the undisputed king and queen of filth. Divine tore up the screen in Waters’ cult classics Mondo Trasho, Pink Flamingos and Hairspray. Divine was a trendsetter and a rule breaker. He was counter culture pin up, partied …

In all the arts – music and film especially – many sins can be forgiven if a work has heart. The Beatles’ chirpier songs, The Sound Of Music, most Country music, Sly Stallone’s original Rocky – all beloved by millions, and who …

Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls is the story of a journey incorporating music, women’s issues, politics and globalisation, produced in a country at a time of massive societal and political change. We first meet the Tiger Girls in 2010 when Myanmar is …