Summer Coda
Heidi (Taylor) has lived in Nevada since her father walked out when she was seven. Now the surly violinist is returning to Mildura for his funeral and... read more...
Let Me In
Brief, inspired moments suggest how Matt Reeves could have added American resonances to John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Swedish coming-of-age horror novel.... read more...
Eat Pray Love
Okay, this was pretty terrible. But you should go see it anyway, because it’s interesting to contemplate why people watch, hate, condemn. Sure, it... read more...
American: The Bill Hicks Story
First shown at SXSW Festival, American: The Bill Hicks Story documents Hicks’ life through the eyes of his family and friends. Though some of the... read more...
Lavazza Italian Film Festival
Buon giorno! Been craving an overseas escape? Perhaps a Roman Holiday?! Aching for fine food, wine and some Italian screen time? Get ready to swig the... read more...
The Tree
So a rural Queensland dude (Aden Young) dies of a heart attack as his ute comes to rest against the fig tree next to his house. Naturally, his wife Dawn... read more...
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Feels like it was only back in March that Stieg Larsson’s blockbusting trilogy first burst into cinemas. Oh wait – it was. While Hollywood... read more...
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Oliver Stone’s sequel to his zeitgeist-capturing 1987 corporate thriller isn’t so much a movie as a parade of macho aphorisms in designer suits.... read more...
Interview with Kirk Docker from Vive Cool City
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a full-blown carney? Or to be raped by a ghost? Wasting your afternoons wondering how dudes in prison get drunk,... read more...
Easy A
I was ready to adore this slut-shaming comedy in which Emma Stone fake-loses her virginity and gains a real-bad reputation stoked by fundamentalist Christian... read more...
The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
The opening scenes of this microbudget UK thriller are a triumph. Two men – taciturn Vic (Eddie Marsan) and meek Danny (Martin Compston) –... read more...
Tomorrow When The War Began
A bunch of unfeasibly attractive teenagers go bush. Laughing, flirting, frolicking beside creeks and campfires… Something bad’s definitely... read more...
Boy
Beneath the ’80s nostalgia and New Zealand jokes, Taika Waititi’s Boy is a similar tale of father/son misunderstanding. read more...
Salt
Salt has been described as Angelina Jolie doing The Bourne Identity, but it’s more like Mission: Impossible meets The Manchurian Candidate, with... read more...
The Killer Inside Me
However, while terrible and prolonged, the violence is inextricably part of the disconcerting look and tone. Winterbottom eschews stylisation –... read more...
The Expendables
Perhaps it was a lingering boyhood fantasy burrowed deep within my subconscious that convinced my older, more cynical, self that The Expendables would... read more...
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Filmmakers often struggle to incorporate the comic-book form into comic-book adaptations. Dick Tracy tried deep-focus lens tricks and limited colour scheme;... read more...
Step Up 3D
The hilarious thing about Jon M Chu’s 3D dancers is how one-dimensional they are. They bang on and on about how dance saved their life. They’re... read more...
Four Lions
Is it “too soon” for a farce about bumbling English jihadis? Perhaps for some. Fearless British satirist Chris Morris (Brass Eye, Nathan Barley)... read more...
Inception
You see, the problem with Hollywood ‘Blockbusters’ is that a lot of the time they never quite bust the block. That is, if ‘block’... read more...
Greenberg
I have soft spot for Noah Baumbach as he directed one of my favourite ’90s-era films Kicking and Screaming - all about brilliantly articulate (read... read more...
The Runaways
The Runaways is startlingly textural: sunbleached California light; squalid, dim interiors; juicy, glossy satin and eyeshadow. And it dramatises the central... read more...
Delusional Downtown Divas
Are you an artist, or an art bitch? Often found lurking around openings, hoping to get your photo taken by certain photographers whose haircut price and... read more...
Predators
Simple as this: if you loved the original Predator, you’ll love Predators. Producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal understand... read more...