Category Archive: film review

We Are The Best! – Film Review

In We Are The Best!, Swedish director/screenwriter Lukas Moodysson’s delivers a must-see for anybody who is thirteen, anybody who has ever been thirteen and anybody for whom music has had a profound affect on their… Read More →

The trouble with Locke is…

Melissa Oey reviews the new flick from Steven Knight: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is an Everyman whose carefully constructed picket fence existence becomes threatened by a singular and supposedly uncharacteristic incident in his past.… Read More →

Film Review: Lucy is daft but fun

Bobby Townsend reviews the moderately ludicrous new Luc Besson flick: There is enjoyable irony to the fact that a film about the potential capabilities of the human brain requires absolutely minimal thought from its… Read More →

20,000 Days on Earth – Film Review

For a 10.30am screening of 20,000 Days on Earth, it was surprising that I cried for such an extended time throughout the picture. Perhaps now for some reason, located across the world in my hometown of… Read More →

Predestination – Movie Review

Carol Bowditch checks out the latest film written/directed by the Spierig Brothers: In an effort to keep my talents (ha) as a writer a mystery to my fellow preview screening journalists I make… Read More →

Boyhood is an incredible achievement

Fact: You’ve never experienced a movie like Boyhood. Richard Linklater’s groundbreaking, coming-of-age story was filmed over the course of 12 years with the same cast. For the movie to have even made it to… Read More →

The Inbetweeners Movie 2 – review

With the first cinematic instalment of The Inbetweeners smashing all manner of box office records in the United Kingdom, it was always incredibly likely there would be a follow-up. And so, just as… Read More →

The Keeper Of Lost Causes – Film review

Somethingyousaid.com’s J. Alistair Darcy battles some seriously aggressive lifts en route to checking out Danish movie “Kvinden i buret”: Initially, I wasn’t so sure I was going to make it to the preview screening at… Read More →

The Lunchbox – Film Review

Holding Irrfan Khan (recognisable from Life of Pi, The Amazing Spiderman and Slumdog Millionaire) in high regard, we sent Carol Bowditch to check out The Lunchbox: A carefully prepared meal is passed though many… Read More →

Yves Saint Laurent, Film Review

Yves Saint Laurent is a biopic based on the iconic designer and his progression from a painfully shy 21-year-old aspiring designer to a man who single handedly revolutionised the fashion world and at… Read More →

The Volcano – Movie Review

From the creators of the delightful The Intouchables is The Volcano (alternative title – Eyjafjallajökull), a hilarious French-language romp that follows two ex-lovers that by chance (due to Eyjafjallajökull, an active volcano in… Read More →

Garish Hearts is uniquely Sydney

The debut feature from production company Ruin Films is Garish Hearts, an absurdist melodrama featuring many familiar Sydney faces and locations; distorted through the peculiar lens of Jay Cruikshank and Angela Garrick. The film… Read More →