Dancing on the grave of deadly dull horror
A deliriously pretentious and utterly dreadful movie, Suspiria amounts to an unnecessary reworking of the cult 1977 Italian horror freak-out of the same name.
Leigh Paatsch
Not-so-fantastic Beasts struggles to cast captivating spell
After all those wonderful Harry Potter books and equally wonderful movie adaptations it would be fair to say we all thought J.K. Rowling walked on water. Now she is treading water. Perhaps even sinking.
Girl in the Spider’s Web turns hacker into slacker
THE Girl in the Spider’s Web is a fizzer for Claire Foy as rogue hacker Lisbeth Salander. Fans of the series best stick with the Rooney Mara or Noomi Rapace movies.
What to stream this weekend
WITH some questionable weather in Melbourne this week, why not curl up on the couch with a hot drink and catch up on some of the best movies on Foxtel Now, Netflix, Stan, SBS on Demand and Amazon Prime.
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Moving portrait of rebel with a cause
FATHER Bob Maguire is one of those types who’s so easy to get to know, but bloody hard to describe.
Leigh Paatsch’s weekend film guide
WITH the weekend nearly upon us, time short and choices aplenty, let Leigh Paatsch’s movie guide point you in the right direction.
Naomi is Lady Di-re
WELL, Diana isn’t quite the cinematic car crash many English critics have pre-emptively proclaimed it to be.
Metallica film sticks to funda-metals
WHILE there are a stack of Metallica concert films, Through the Never in 3D might just go down in history as the one to see.
Skywatcher’s guide to the galaxy
THE best of what’s left is the beguiling IMAX doco Hidden Universe 3D, which cherrypicks stunning imagery from the world’s powerful telescopes.
Ammo, aggro & chat-a-tat-tat
IF Quentin Tarantino was contractually obliged to do a boilerplate Bad Boys-style action movie, the end result would not be unlike 2 Guns.
A formula for intense rivalry
DIRECTED by Ron Howard from a workmanlike script, Rush goes about its business like Hunt and Lauda themselves: briskly and bluntly.
Out of this world
AT once a stunning work of science fiction and a truly heartfelt work of human drama, Gravity casts a powerful spell that cannot be broken.
Evil brings heinous deeds to life
WHERE The Act of Killing will end will shock you to the core. As a sociocultural experiment, it’s a doco about the survivors of a 1960s massacre.
Lights! Cameras! Fornication!
LOVELACE is a fascinating biopic tracking ‘70s porn star Linda Lovelace’s swift rise to infamy, and a long, slow journey to the bottom of the barrel.
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