Category Archive: film review

Dallas Buyers Club – Movie Review

Matthew McConaughey’s film career started with great promise with performances in Dazed and Confused and Amistad marking him out as one-to-watch, before his career descended into a decade-long stint of leaning against his… Read More

Review: Flickerfest closing night

Being blessed with something of a limited attention-span, the short-film format is ideal for me. At its best, a short film is a perfectly formed nugget of cinematic brilliance – complete with compelling… Read More

Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave

There are certain true stories that everybody knows. We’ve surely all read Anne Frank’s Diary, or at least have a reasonable knowledge of its subject-matter. Conversely, there are some you feel astonished/ashamed not… Read More

Review: Flickerfest short film festival 2014

Oliver Heath attends Australian international short film festival, Flickerfest, and reminisces about Bondi: A quick glance at the sign (pictured, above) and you could be forgiven for thinking I’m at a Tinder orgy or a douchebaggery… Read More

Film Review: Convict is hard hitting

Melissa Oey checks out a prison film which looks at heteromasculinity and multiculturalism in Australia: Convict revolves around its protagonist, Ray (George Basha) and his struggle to retain the moralistic identity he established to escape… Read More

Film review: Jailbait is gritty

The Asylum is renowned for bringing films with a certain b-movie aesthetic to your screens. Remember Sharknado? Well, they were responsible for that. In 2014 they’re offering the likes of brilliantly-titled Mega Shark… Read More

Something You Said’s best films of 2013

This year, some abso-bloody-lutely awesome movies have hit our ears and eyes. Here are Somethingyousaid.com’s top 20 films of 2013, as voted for by our team of contributors (oh, and before you get… Read More

Film Review: Philomena is a must see

Somethingyousaid.com’s Colin Delaney discovers a charming story of love and loss: Philomena is the story of a good Irish Catholic mother Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) who enlists cynical journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan)… Read More

Ranking The Fast & Furious films

If, like us at somethingyousaid.com, you’re a fan of film or pop-culture in general, then you’ve obviously heard of the tragic death of actor Paul Walker in November. Just 40 years old, the actor… Read More

Great films you might have missed in 2013

If you’re putting together your Best Movies list for the year, then STOP! You might wanna see these suggestions from Somethingyousaid.com’s resident film buff, Neil Martin, first:  My mission to watch more and… Read More

Gravity – So Good I Saw it Twice

Celebrity guest contributor, the legendary Hugh Cornwell, reviews Gravity for somethingyousaid.com and discovers one of the films of the year: Gravity is the most life affirming film I have ever seen. Sandra Bullock… Read More

Film Review: Night Train to Lisbon

A boring film about a boring guy whose sense of boringness is compounded on discovering old people who lived far less boring lives than him. Somethingyousaid.com’s Colin Delaney investigates: I knew very little… Read More