Pride deserves repeated viewings
Having deservedly landed in our official top 20 films of 2014, Pride arrives on DVD/Bluray/digital release this week. Here’s why it’s unquestionably a must-see: The film is set in the UK in the summer… Read More
Category Archive: film review
Film Review: A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year, the third feature from writer/director J.C. Chandor, is a crime-drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous year in the area’s history. It sees husband-and-wife, Oscar… Read More
Film Review: Whiplash at Moonlight Cinema
We headed to Moonlight Cinema in Sydney to watch Oscar-nominated, drumtastic drama “Whiplash” under the stars: Whiplash sees a young, talented and driven drummer (Miles Teller) land under the wing of the most respected… Read More
That Sugar Film is food for thought
In the words of Nancy Sinatra, Damon Gameau is in shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo Sugar Town. And he doesn’t want to be there. The Australian actor, known for his role in TV series, Love My Way,… Read More
Film Review: X+Y looks at love and loss
Somethingyousaid.com’s Addy Fong reviews the latest film from director Morgan Matthews, starring Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins: I’ve never liked maths. In fact, I remember telling my high school maths teacher how… Read More
Bill Murray pushes himself in St Vincent
Bobby Townsend headed to the Moonlight Cinema in Sydney to review the latest offering from writer/director Theodore Melfi, in which Bill Murray pushes his boundaries: Some actors can elevate movies. Bill Murray in… Read More
Exists demonstrates the stupidity of humans
Addy Fong checks out the latest flick from Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez: Legendary creatures are mysterious and rarely seen, so upon hearing about a film that portrayed a Sasquatch, or Bigfoot… Read More
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Splitting a film’s final instalment makes perfect financial sense, but it certainly seems to be narratively damaging. As The Hunger Games edges towards its conclusion, the trilogy cum quadrilogy perhaps suffers from what… Read More
Documentary review: Particle Fever
Particle Fever delivers a front-row seat to this generation’s most significant/inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happened. No, not the invention of Snapchat, but rather the launch of the Large Hadron Collider. In case… Read More
Film review: The Mule has guts
The Mule is a film about a slow-witted yet impressively-stubborn man trying not to do a poo. Seriously. Even stranger is that the movie, directed by Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony, is inspired… Read More
Nightcrawler presents a dark canvas
http://youtu.be/9Lb81geP9C0 Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance in the pulse-pounding new thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles has been getting plenty of plaudits, but are they deserved? Peter Watts finds out: Lou… Read More