Category Archive: film review

Movie Review: Riddick is good popcorn action

Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath embraces wraparound sunglasses and some wooden one-liners: When I heard I was going to review a sci-fi film called ‘Redic’, it totes conjured images of future space-hipsters and their eternal… Read More

Movie Review: Tim Winton’s The Turning

Colin Delaney reviews The Turning, and discovers a bold cinematic experience that meditates on the minutiae of the human condition: Before delving into new Australian film project The Turning, memorise these character names: Vic… Read More

Review: Backyard Cinema in London

On Saturday, Something You Said headed to London to check out Backyard Cinema, an institution born after its founder endured an underwhelming trip to your generic, everyday, soulless cineplex. Popping up in a variety… Read More

Film Review: What Maisie Knew

Based on a contemporary interpretation of the classic Henry James novel (of the same name), and set in present-day New York, ‘What Maisie Knew’ is an honest and realistic portrayal of a bitter… Read More

Movie Review: The Canyons

I have a friend who once vomited all over Lindsay Lohan’s bathroom. The reason I am telling you this one-sentence, context-free anecdote is that it is singularly more interesting and entertaining than the… Read More

Film review: Behind The Candelabra

Behind the Candelabra is director Steven Soderbergh’s latest and last cinematic effort. The man behind Ocean’s 11 and Erin Brockovich has tentatively announced his step back from features, but not before releasing one final… Read More

Film Review: What’s in a Name?

Sonia Clarke reviews What’s in a Name? (released in France as Le Prénom) the French-Belgian comedy written and directed by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte: The first French film I ever watched was… Read More

Film review: The Conjuring

Somethingyousaid.com’s Bianca Cornale headed along to The Conjuring, fully aware that she was incredibly likely to have seven-shades of bejesus scared out of her:  There are three things I really don’t like: –         … Read More

Film review: The Bling Ring

We have a look at The Bling Ring, the latest flick from Sofia Coppola: Sofia Coppola is the cinematic equivalent of Christmas gift wrapping. Colourful and enticing. She’s masterful at decorating her films… Read More

Lovelace Fails at Liberating Role

Carol Bowditch checked out Amanda Seyfried’s rockin boobies: I included Lovelace on a whim within my selection of highlights for The Sydney Film Festival as I thought it would be a tounge-in-cheek story… Read More

Film Review: The Way, Way Back

My memories of being, say, seventeen to thirty-something are like a beautiful, slightly hazy and abridged novella. Conversely, I remember being fourteen with crystal clarity. Awkward. Lazy. Insecure. At best, I would have… Read More

The Purge fails on all accounts

The Purge is horrifically underwhelming, according to Somethingyousaid.com’s Tenley Nordstrom.  It was the first time that I went full-on asshole in a movie theatre. I couldn’t help myself. A last-minute decision to see… Read More