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War Witch (2012)
In a quiet village somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, a group of rebels implement a brutal attack on the families and townspeople looking to recruit and manipulate more young fighters to follow them into...
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Performance (2013)
It’s usually a strange but intriguing case of the impossibility of certain cross-cultural translations when a film is released under two differing monikers in different countries. Such is not the case...
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
When bracing oneself to enter into a screening with the newest instalment in the Die Hard franchise, in at least some capacity there must be a sense of doubt or mocking distance. It’s somewhat...
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Hyde Park on Hudson is without a doubt one of the blandest films of recent memory. Considering the breadth of available actors for the feature and the intriguing story covering one of the most...
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Warm Bodies (2013)
Warm Bodies is kind of like Twilight but with brains instead of blood and comedy instead of melodrama. The teen angst is still there, Warm Bodies has it in spades, and the comparison casts a dull...
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Kon-Tiki (2012)
DISCLAIMER: I saw the English language version of Kon-Tiki (of which there is also a Norwegian language version), and thus my review reflects the circumstances. In 1947, Norwegian experimental...
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No (2012)
It is obvious that the major focal point of Pablo Larraín’s newest film No is his decision to shoot the film using an archaic format, that of ¾’ Sony U-matic magnetic tape instead of traditional film...
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Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
Dredging up the courage and the confidence to drag ones self through the celluloid wasteland that is a post-Oscar season can be a particularly difficult feat. Facing one after another mediocre to...
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Evil Dead (2013)
The incessant need for gore in the modern horror film is a trend which caught on soon after the immensely popular first instalment of the Saw franchise. Since then, B-Grade directors have been wickedly...
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Sinister (2013)
The opening seconds of Sinister features one of those great terrifying images, unique to horror cinema, which will stick in your mind long after viewing. It is an image of a family of four, hanging by...
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The Internship (2013)
If there is any overarching message that one could take away from a viewing of the new Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson comedy vehicle The Internship, it would be the affirmation that the cinema is no...
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After Earth (2013)
After Earth is fundamentally flawed from the beginning. Designed as a potential launch pad for the acting career of his son Jaden, the film is written and produced by Will Smith; father starring...
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The Look of Love (2013)
The combination of British director Michael Winterbottom and comedic actor Steve Coogan has previously yielded some very interesting work. Their 2002 collaboration 24 Hour Party People is one of the...
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Epic (2013)
Before the starting pistol is even fired, Epic gets a wrong footing with the unfortunate title bestowed upon it. A clambering and oddly desperate attempt to attach ambiguous affectation to a film that...
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Man of Steel (2013)
Superman is a 20th century Jesus Christ. He is a bastion of hope, a locus for our dreams and for the future. Quite literally, throughout much of the scope of his comic book incarnation he is often...
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To The Wonder (2013)
In the opening scenes of director Terrence Malick’s newest film To The Wonder, newly infatuated couple Neil (Ben Affleck) and Marina (Olga Kurylenko) roam the streets of Paris ensnared in one another’s...
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Reality (2013)
As an extravagant, Victorian-era horse and cart clicks and clacks its way down a busy suburban street in present day Naples, one can’t help but question the purpose of this odd, but effective...
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This is the End (2013)
Midway through the apocalyptic chaos of This is the End, Seth Rogen et al. decide to jokingly create a sequel to their great 2008 film Pineapple Express; the idea spawned from one of their weed smoking...
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The Conjuring (2013)
James Wan’s 2010 horror film Insidious was a slyly refreshing entry into the incredibly familiar haunted house genre. It’s a film that knowingly harkened back to a classic age of domestic spirit...
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100 Bloody Acres (2013)
Silly doesn’t always mean “bad”, and though 100 Bloody Acres is certainly no Australian horror masterpiece (see: Wolf Creek), it never sets out to be, making it a sparkling underachievement which does...
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Frances Ha (2012)
Frances Halladay (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old dance assistant living in New York City with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner), a publicist working for Random House. The duo are joined at the...
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The Best Offer (2013)
“There’s always something authentic concealed in every forgery.” Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) reveres beauty above all else, and in his work as an auctioneer and marchand d’art he has handled some of...
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Binary Wires: Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013)
Over the course of his career as one of Asia’s most prominent directors of wuxia cinema, Tsui Hark has regularly mined China’s rich history for subjects upon which to apply his technologically...
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Sexual Healing: Thanks for Sharing (2013)
There is nothing funny about sex addiction, or so we learned from Steve McQueen’s astonishingly bleak and hyper-real masterpiece Shame released last year. Shame took a brutally honest approach toward...
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Siege Mentality: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
In many ways it’s surprising that an Alan Partridge movie has found its way into Australian cinemas at all. Despite the character’s enduring popularity in his home country of England, Partridge has...
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