Men’s Group (MA15+) 3½ stars Limited release MADE without government support, Men’s Group is an independent Australian film about a group of men of different ages and backgrounds who gather on a regular basis to discuss their problems.
Few films in the sub-genre dealing with the war on terror have performed well at the box office
Choke (R18+) 3 stars Limited release THE task of bringing a well-regarded novel to the screen is always a perilous one, and even more so when the novelist is as distinctively unusual as Chuck Palahniuk.
Rocknrolla (MA15+) 2½ stars National release AT the time of its release in 1998, Guy Ritchie’s first feature, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, became the third biggest grossing British film of all time, quite an achievement for a young film buff who dropped out of school at 15 and who never had any formal training in film writing or directing.
Monkey Puzzle (M) 2½ stars Limited release MONKEY Puzzle, the latest self-funded, wholly independent Australian feature to find limited release, is about five young people who spend an Easter long weekend in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, searching for the wollemi pine.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (M) 3½ stars National release TOBY Young is a British journalist who spent a none-too-successful period of his life in New York working for Vanity Fair and wrote about his experiences in a best-selling book.
Young@Heart (PG) 3½ stars Limited release NORTHAMPTON, a town of about 30,000 residents in the US state of Massachusetts, is home to Young@Heart, a choir composed of elderly performers with an average age of 80.
Burn After Reading (MA15+) 4½ stars National release A FEW weeks ago I conducted an all-day illustrated lecture at the University of Sydney on the films of Joel and Ethan Coen.
THE complexities of the Middle East situation are explored in Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies, which is based on a novel by The Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
TOWELHEAD is based on a novel by Alicia Erian and deals with the problems of the Middle East but in an entirely American setting.
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