The insightful results achieved in The Heiresses are all the more remarkable when you learn it is the work of a first-time filmmaker, coaching actors who have spent most of their careers in live theatre.
The Perfection, while a flawed psychological thriller, has a disturbing, distrustful energy that builds impressively. Allow this refreshingly unorthodox movie to get you in and it will unnerve you.
While hardliners on both sides of the current climate-change debate may find the 2040 documentary too fanciful and lightweight, the youngsters who will be living through much of what is projected here will sorely beg to differ.
Despite people saying Will Smith as the Genie looked like a Smurf hitting the steroids way too hard and the unknown lead actors weren’t ‘movie stars’, Disney’s live-action reboot of the classic cartoon is not the debacle the naysayers were nudging for.
REVIEW: Pan’s newly-imagined take on Peter’s early days rarely achieves lift-off, forever anchored by its own irrelevance.
REVIEW: Only take the kids to Blinky Bill the Movie this school holidays if they’ve been very, very naughty. This is why it’ll disappoint you.
REVIEW: Oddball is a balanced piece of filmmaking that does the right thing by a uniquely Australian tale of heroism and high-jinks.
REVIEW: We have one of the best films of 2015 hitting us right between the eyes. So brace yourself for this minor masterpiece about the war on drugs.
REVIEW: While committed to telling a well-chronicled true story, Everest is first and foremost an old-fashioned disaster movie.
REVIEW: Well, it took much longer than it should have, but the name of Adam Sandler is now mud as a box-office drawcard with this film.
REVIEW: All things Maze Runner grabs you from the get-go, but there is some excessive violence laced throughout this new film, making it lucky to get an M rating.
REVIEW: Five young men from Los Angeles’ badlands held the fate of popular music in their hands and used it as a weapon. A memorable biopic.
REVIEW: New film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl will draw comparisons with 2014 movie The Fault in Our Stars. Most will agree this is far better.
REVIEW: The Wolfpack documentary shows epic homemade footage the like you have never seen before in a tale so strange only real life could compose it.
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