Movie Review: Ugly Dolls
After months of reviewing dark dramas and tough issues the Ugly Dolls movie couldn’t have come at a better time. A cute feel good family movie Ugly Dolls delivers an…
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Movie Review: Ride Like A Girl
It’s always challenging going to a movie when you know the story. Will it be a straight forward depiction of events or will we learn something new in the retelling?…
Movie Review: The Goldfinch
In some movies very little happens while in others there’s way too much going on to keep track, and then there’s The Goldfinch. Thanks to The Goldfinch
Movie Review: Palm Beach
When you hear about a drama/comedy movie shot in the NSW northern beaches and starring an array of Aussie movie legends, how can you say no? Throw in an important…
CinefestOz 2019
First established in 2008 by David Barton and Helen Shervington, CinefestOz initially marked the French bicentenary of Antipodean exploration of the WA’s South West. Twelve years on and the festival…
Movie Review: Camino Skies
Having spent three days on a wellness retreat I arrived at the screening of Camino Skies in an appropriately meditative head space. The danger was being so zen would I fall…
Movie Review: The White Crow
If you’re even remotely into ballet you’ll know about the white swan. If you’re into movies you’ll remember the Black Swan. But, and now here’s the real test, do you…
Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival 2019: Top Picks and review A White White Day and One Last Deal
And so to one of my favourite film festivals of the year, the Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival. I was delighted to see Department Q back on the list of movies.…
Movie Review: Booksmarts
With a fist full of post-June 30 deadlines in front of me I hoped the movie Booksmart would provide some sense of release. I was definitely up for some fun. I…
Movie Review: Parasite
It’s not often I give a movie five stars and I’m probably as surprised as you are that it’s for a subtitled Korean movie called Parasite, but I guarantee you’ll understand…
Movie Review: Under The Silver Lake
Any movie that offers a Hitchcock-like mood has me intrigued. Under The Silver Lake is one such movie, but does it pull it off?
Movie Review: Pokemon Detective Pikachu
Better late than never, or so they say. After a few big distractions I finally got to see this movie and in the presence of about 50 boys under 10.…
German Film Festival 2019: Top Six Picks
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an anniversary reflected in one part of the 2019 German Film Festival program. On top of this the…
Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum
Never has a trip to the Continental Hotel been so important. With the clock ticking down John Wick has to make it there before he gets excommunicated from the international assassins…
Movie Review: POMS
Recent months have seen a spate of Full Monty style triumph over adversity friendship movies. POMS follows a similar path, albeit this time with senior cheer leaders. When I first…
Movie Review: All Is True
Let’s be honest I know very little about Shakespeare, aside from watching Othello at Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London, and even then that was more to do with Ewan McGregor…
Movie Review: Long Shot
To be honest I didn’t hold high hopes when I received the invitation to the Long Shot movie. I thought I knew what I was going to get. Turns out I grossly…
Movie Review: Celeste
I always like to support Australian movies and sitting watching the stunning scenery in Celeste it’s not hard to do so.
