A film festival can be seen as the artistic expression of a culture, a way of celebrating achievements or articulating difficult past events. Running from 30 April to 12 May, the Jewish International Film Festival’s Holocaust Film Series presents 30…
A marvellously produced film that tops and defines this generation’s popular genre. The emergence of superhero films is without doubt one of the most celebrated new sub-genre in the past decade, and as far as it goes the Disney-Marvel studio…
A film without many special merits, yet has very little faults. One can always grade re-adaptations into three categories from worst to best – that which is unable to meet the standard of the original, that which is merely a…
A grand gesture to appeal to fans of fairytales, not quite enough for anyone else. No one really wanted a sequel to the 2012 critical failure Snow White and the Huntsman, but we got one anyway. This time star Kristen…
A film so bland and conventional its existence can no longer be justified like its predecessors. In the world of young adult fiction, each franchise capable of producing multiple sequels often possess its own unique brand of beauty to be…
An incoherent piece of motion picture that offers a rocky start to the DC Cinematic Universe, but delivers an expandable beginning nonetheless. Critics do not hate anyone without reasons, even more so they do not root for a film to…
A film as mediocre as its mythological and historical accuracy Geoffrey Rush fights a planet-eating monster with a fire-spitting spear on a spaceship, in order to protect a flat Earth while his kids/grand-kids slaughter each other. The above statement basically…
On a sweltering Sydney Sunday morning, and on Valentine’s Day no less, you could be excused for thinking it was rather odd that I would be sat at a screening of the Rocky Mountain Express at the IMAX Darling Harbour. But, my…
Quentin Tarantino´s 8th film is about to be released in Australia. Not only is this work of art one of a kind (as most of this director’s previous films have been) but also the pre-work that has been done to…
A triumph in subject but doesn’t deliver the anticipated impact in its succinct length. Not to be confused with Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 catastrophe The Room, Room as directed by Lenny Abrahamson is an adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel of the…