Category: Reviews
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Listen Up Philip – Review
“there’s an oddly enticing element that derives from witnessing screen characters who are seemingly self-absorbed, deplorable individuals, who, whether we like to admit it or not, we can see shades of ourselves in”… Read More >
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Danny Collins – Review
Given his recent output, you would be forgiven for assuming that Danny Collins – a film about an ageing rocker who has been in a steady decline – is part of a sad farewell tour for Al Pacino. Instead, what you will get is a well thought out drama that is light on laughs, but… Read More >
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Timbuktu – Review
An ‘issue movie’ may find itself unexpectedly caught in its own lessons, unable to reconcile the many facets of an important real-world message with the intangible magic of cinema. But when that meeting of methods does turn out successfully, it’s almost always reason to celebrate. Call it a parable, a diatribe, a lesson; whatever label… Read More >
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San Andreas – Review
Movies have been obsessed with disaster from the very beginning. Biblical epics would rain supernatural forces down onto a deserving human race in the first half of the 20th century; human follies would entrap their makers in The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Titanic; outer space would even have a go with the likes of… Read More >
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Results – Review
Guy Pearce is one of our greatest actors; proving himself a chameleon across a dizzying range of genres and scaling budgets of different sizes, he consistently remains an impeccable focus of complex morality at the centre of his films. As for Cobie Smulders, she’s managed to do everything her way, right through TV and even surviving the… Read More >
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Life of Riley – Review
91. That was the age at which Alain Resnais finally, and probably reluctantly, kissed this world goodbye and sailed onward into the great unknown, his fingers surrendering their grip on the camera lens after 68 years in the business of making movies. The French director was clearly in it for all the right reasons, a… Read More >
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Man Up – Review
“While it’s to the film’s detriment at times, the earnest, well-meaning approach is endearing in parts.” Read More >
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Paper Moon – Review
The double act has always been one of cinema’s greatest joys. 1934’s It Happened One Night paired Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable to make for a timeless rom-com; Steve Martin and John Candy’s hilarious awkwardness elevated 1987’s Planes, Trains & Automobiles; even Rush Hour successfully played Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker off one another to huge box office success in 1998.… Read More >
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Bloodline: Season 1 – Review
“so brilliantly executed, you’ll be missing your bedtime just to quench your urgent need for more”… Read More >
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Return to Sender – Review
“the hackneyed means of storytelling seeks only in devaluing and cheapening the experience, taking a fascinating idea and presenting it in such a cliched fashion.” Read More >
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