Crazy, Stupid, Love
THOUGH the title is apt enough, the word stupid in Crazy, Stupid, Love gives off the wrong signal in the current comedic climate.
New Movies
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
AMERICAN filmmaker Wayne Wang is best known to Australian audiences for his hit drama The Joy Luck Club, a sentimental take on contemporary Chinese sisterhood.
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
TO SLAP Cave of Forgotten Dreams with the tag “documentary” is something of a disservice.
Monte Carlo
A PLEASANTLY forgettable trifle about three young American women enjoying their first European holiday.
A kinky tale told by the tabloids
OSCAR-winning documentary maker Errol Morris knows how to get his audience interested in a subject.
Abduction
THIS terrible, thrills-free thriller is all about striking while the iron is plugged into the power socket. The electricity of the Twilight phenomenon may have zapped Taylor Lautner to super-stardom, but it ain’t gonna keep him there.
Film review: One Day
ONCE you get your head around its sheer awfulness, One Day is utterly mesmerising.
Fright Night
A REMAKE of a fondly remembered bloody-buddy pic from 1985, Fright Night sprays its plentiful supply of shocks and chuckles in all directions. Most of it hits. Not much of it misses.
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
THE first and best thing to do when taking a squiz at God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is to shut the veteran rocker’s sham reality TV show out of your mind.
Johnny English Reborn
DESPITE what the title promises, comedy is still dead to Rowan Atkinson. The British comedian originally developed the Johnny English persona while prepping material for a series of credit-card ads at the turn of the millennium.
The Eye of the Storm
LIKE the central figure in this ambitious adaptation of the celebrated Patrick White novel, The Eye of the Storm coughs a little, splutters a lot and then finally passes away.
The Smurfs
IN THE wrong hands, this live-action cartoon hybrid could have been another Alvin and the Chipmunks. Or worse, its Squeakquel.
Submarine
A SUBLIME coming-of-age comedy based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne, Submarine plunges us down into the murky mind of its unreliable teenage narrator.
Face to Face
THIS here’s what they call “a tough sell”: an Australian movie where people sit around in a community hall and talk about their problems for 90 minutes.
Zookeeper
THERE are elements of this dipsy comedy for kids that work wonderfully well.
The Change-Up
IT IS Freaky Friday with boobs! Lots of boobs! It is Big, only with twice as many men-children who will never grow up!
Life in a Day
IF YOU’RE after something radically different from everything else at present, this docu-snapshot of the world as it was on July 24 last year may be the ticket.
Film review: Final Destination 5
FOR all its new-fangled fixtures and trimmings, the Final Destination franchise still sticks like glue to that old horror-movie maxim “if in doubt, gross ’em out”.
Film review: The Help
ONE woman is determined to reveal the mistreatment of black housemaids.
Film review: Beginners
A BEAUTIFULLY understated piece of filmmaking and a playfully inventive style of storytelling are combined to great effect in Beginners.
Film review: Priest
LAST week, it was the cowboys versus the aliens. This week, the war for your film-going buck pits the vicars against the vampires.
Film review: The Guard
THIS brilliant Irish production is a shifty, cunning and gloriously off-kilter affair.
Film review: Senna
THE best documentaries not only draw their subjects in fine detail. They also draw the fascination and respect of viewers who could not have cared less about those subjects before.
Film review: Friends With Benefits
ONCE upon a time – a year ago, actually – there were two rom-coms in production that were asking the same question – can a man and a woman share a strictly physical relationship without any complications whatsoever.
Film review: United
ORIGINALLY filmed for broadcast on the BBC, United tells one of the saddest stories in sporting history.
Film review: Win Win
NO one can do down-and-out-and-up-to-something in a movie better than the great Paul Giamatti.
Film review: Conan the Barbarian
I LIVE. I love. I slay. And I am content.”
Film review: Green Lantern
YOU know what? It has been a pretty good year at the movies for all things superhero and comic book. Until now.
Fim Review: Red Dog
A MAJORITY of Australian feelgood films are inevitably doomed to fail.
Film review: The Beaver
AS they say, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Film review: The Eagle
THIS solid swords-‘n’-sandals affair is sneaking into cinemas for a brief run only, having had most of its thunder stolen by a similarly themed recent production.
Film review: Beautiful Lies
THERE is some very average product being sneaked on the market while the last Harry Potter show fills the coffers of the movie business.
Film review: Bad Teacher
THOUGH it appears not to have spent too much time hitting the comedy textbooks, Bad Teacher scrapes by with just a pass mark.
Film review: Larry Crowne
ONCE upon a time, the dream-teaming of Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts atop a box-office marquee would have caused queues visible from the moon.
Review: A magic ending for the boy wizard
REVIEW: OUR last look at Harry Potter sees him all grown up in a thrilling showdown with his (im)mortal enemy, Lord Voldemort.
Film review: All Tomorrow’s Parties
YOU wouldn’t go calling All Tomorrow’s Parties a concert film as such.
Film review: Sleeping Beauty
A HIDEOUS arthouse snoozer, Sleeping Beauty strikes the rare double of being as pretentious as it is puerile.
Film review: Kung Fu Panda 2
AS fun as the 2008 animated hit Kung Fu Panda turned out to be, there was always a grey area concerning the movie’s black-and-white hero.
Film review: Pixar’s Cars 2
SORRY Pixar, but your assembly line is showing.
Film review: Aussie thriller Blame
THIS Australian-made home-invasion thriller is very unpleasant at times, but there is still a lot to like about Blame.
Film review: Little White Lies
THE definitive friends-reuniting-on-holiday movie will always be the 1983 classic The Big Chill.
Film review: Bridesmaids
IT WOULD be a major mistake to file Bridesmaids away as merely a high quality chick flick. Such faint praise just isn’t worth a damn.
Review: Organges and Sunshine
A WORK of controlled, retrospective outrage, Oranges And Sunshine tells the bizarre true story of how tens of thousands of young British lives were irrevocably ruined. On Australian turf. With the systematic and secretive support of our government.
Film Review: J.J. Abrams’ Super 8
BEFORE we start, some important background to the release of Super 8.
Film review: Julia’s Eyes
WHILE the name of Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) is to the fore of production credits for Julia’s Eyes, this solid Spanish thriller is clearly in thrall to the works of the great Alfred Hitchcock.
Film review: Aussie movie Here I Am
DESPITE the best of intentions, the blandest of outcomes is all that can be achieved by Here I Am.
Film review: X-Men: First Class
BACK in time. Back with a vengeance.That’s what the report card will show for X-Men: First Class.
Review: Pirates of the Carribean
WORLD cinema needs another Pirates of the Caribbean about as much as Australian TV needs its very own The Amazing Race.
Film review: Burke and Hare
HOLD your nose and take a hike elsewhere, because this unfunny farce stinks to high heaven.
Film review: Mad Bastards
IN MAD Bastards, a father’s search for the son he has never known becomes a long-distance trek towards the real roots of indigenous life in outback Australia.
Film review: Your Highness
IT WAS inconceivable to me that Your Highness could turn out to be a dud.
Film review: Insidious
THIS cut-price jumble sale of domestic scares – think Paranormal Activity with a conventional script and better cameras – is being flogged by those two Australian blokes who gave the world the Saw franchise.
Film review: Water For Elephants
IF good looks could kill, Robert Pattinson would be facing charges of mass murder simply for stepping before the cameras.
Film review: Brighton Rock
THIS one’s bound to get up the nose of cinema purists. Largely because the 1947 adaptation of the beloved Graham Greene novel Brighton Rock is roundly regarded as a British classic.
Film review: Unknown
AAAAH, movie amnesia. It is good to see you again. Where have you been? Don’t remember? That’s OK.
Film review: The King’s Speech
A SUPERIOR historical drama and a sincerely inspiring movie experience, The King’s Speech tells the little-known story of how a reluctant British monarch overcame a debilitating stammer with the aid of an unconventional therapist from Australia.
Film review: 127 Hours
WHAT sets British director Danny Boyle apart from every other mainstream filmmaker?
Film Review: The Fighter
WITH The Fighter, you’re getting a boxing movie with surprisingly little boxing in it.
G, what happened to family-friendly flicks?
THINKING of taking the kids to the movies in the next fortnight? Get set to be disappointed.
Film review: The Tourist
SUCCESS for The Tourist should be a no-brainer, on sheer star power alone.
Film review: Megamind
WORLD’S greatest supervillain is thrown for a loop by sudden change of circumstance. Slowly becomes world’s softest semi-nice guy.
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