An emotionally raw take on a young man’s long descent into drug addiction, a disarmingly comic document of a serious time in recent history, and a low-key loveable animated adaptation of a long-running comic strip — here’s what you need to watch.
With Pet Sematary currently scaring up big business at the box-office, here are more screamers you should stream, originating from the pen of celebrated spooksmith Stephen King.
Surely an M-rating would have been more fitting for Little, with its casual mentions of Tinder, thots and other semi-sexualised slang-uage for no particular reason. But its saving grace is the acting chops of its freakishly great junior lead.
The pop-cultural references in Back of the Net sound like the (un)educated guesses of adults not really down with the kids, and the soccer components seem to have been handled by someone who may have once watched Bend It Like Beckham, but probably fell asleep a few minutes in.
REVIEW: The numbers all add up for X + Y, a sensitive and sophisticated drama about a troubled teenage maths prodigy.
REVIEW: The world doesn’t really need another Nicholas Sparks movie — but with The Longest Ride, at least audiences are going to know exactly what they will get.
REVIEW: Mae Whitman is neither fat nor ugly, but she is still well cast as The DUFF — the ‘Designated Ugly Fat Friend’. Ouch.
REVIEW: Don’t be fooled by the cutely-drawn characters in The Book of Life. With Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum, this film is more ambitious than it appears.
REVIEW: Forget the plot. Come for the stunts and the heartfelt tribute to Paul Walker in Fast & Furious 7.
A COMPLETE guide to all major movies currently showing in Australian cinemas: rated or slated to get you to the right movie faster.
REVIEW: Any detectable chaos is indeed very small in this polished period drama directed by respected British actor Alan Rickman AKA Severus Snape.
REVIEW: SPONGEBOB Squarepants runs a distant second to Shaun the Sheep in the competition between movies based on a popular TV show.
WHAT movies are going to keep the kids – and parents – quiet these school holidays? Our movie critic sorts the good from the bad.
REVIEW: Be still, our bleating hearts! Shaun the Sheep has finally been given his own movie, and it scores a telling victory.
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