Fantomas
Directed by Louis Feuillade, this series of silent films based on the crime fiction novels of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre has it all. They’re... read more...
UFC 2009: Undisputed
Ultimate Fight Championship has had a rocky history. Allegations of ‘human cock fighting’ plagued its early years and it’s always struggled... read more...
My Year Without Sex
My Year Without Sex begins as the kind of shaggy suburban comedy that Australian cinema does so well, but writer/director Sarah Watt has meshed a low-key... read more...
What Just Happened
Written and co-produced by veteran producer Art Linson from his memoir, What Just Happened is a dry and achingly sad Hollywood satire. While it echoes... read more...
Gomorrah
Life in Naples under the Camorra is hardly glamorous. These mafiosi aren’t honour-bound or flashily decadent. They’re pitiless, mercenary thugs... read more...
Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York is about an anxious, hypochondriac theatre director, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who so obsessively revises and rehearses... read more...
Legends of Wrestlemania
There have been a constant stream of wrestling games over the years, but none have tapped into the rich nostalgia of past glory days. Legends of Wrestlemania... read more...
Samson & Delilah
Warwick Thornton’s first feature isn’t just another worthy indigenous-themed movie. This teenage love story is tender, provocative and gorgeous... read more...
A Film With Me In It
Doherty’s script takes ages to deliver on its premise but, once it does, it’s quite funny in a shaggy, Shallow Grave way. The audience in... read more...
Resident Evil V
The Resident Evil series is now as much of a bloated mutated mess as its inhabitants. Movie, spinoffs and remakes have created a mythos that only its creators... read more...
Bomb It!
This 2007 doco is an impressive achievement. Director/producer Jon Reiss (Better Living Through Circuitry) travelled the world and interviewed a who’s... read more...
Changeling
Eastwood’s powerful direction includes a stark execution scene exposing the hypocritical atrocity of capital punishment. But whether it’s a... read more...
Billy The Kid
Jennifer Vendetti’s documentary portrait has won critical praise and awards across the world (including the audience prize at MIFF 2007). Her achievement... read more...
Bustin' Down The Door
Narrated in a bored fashion by Edward Norton, Jeremy Gosch’s documentary jutaposes interviews with the protagonists (plus other surfers, promoters... read more...
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne
Why does Dominick Dunne hate Frank Sinatra? Because Ol’ Blue Eyes once instructed a flunky to punch Dominick in the head as a lark. Yes, Dunne’s... read more...
Burn After Reading
If you’re not a Coen convert, Burn After Reading might be best viewed after less critically controversial offerings as The Big Lebowski, Fargo... read more...
2046
I recently saw 2046 by Writer/Director Kong Kar-Wai, which is about four years old now. It’s a love story that ambles through the city of Shanghai... read more...
Choke
It seemed inevitable that we’d be bombarded with so many Palahniuk film adaptations that we’d finally have to learn how to spell his name –... read more...
American Teen
If you’ve seen one American teenage film you’ve seen them all. While it’s obviously testing for us as cinemagoers to watch the same old sex, drugs,... read more...
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
An old-fashioned male melodrama disguised as a one of those twisty crime thrillers that clogged cinemas all through the ‘90s, Before The Devil…... read more...
John Cassavetes: The Collection DVD Box
Sink into this newly remastered set of Cassavetes’ films and you can immediately see how they’re the dirty, short-black-coffee parallels to... read more...
2 Days In Paris
It’s rough round the edges, very much a low-budget first film, but if this is Delpy’s unofficial answer to Before Sunrise, it’s also... read more...
30 Days Of Night
30 Days Of Night is generic in the true sense of the word. The characters don’t need personalities, sparkling dialogue, or motivation beyond staying... read more...
Angel-A (2005)
Did you think that Amelie was good, but too girly? Or wish It’s A Wonderful Life starred a supermodel? Were you curious about arthouse classic Wings... read more...