When writer/director Christopher Nolan releases a film, you know it is going to be a bold, ambitious and visually sumptuous affair. Interstellar is no different. The story is thus. Matthew McConaughey is Cooper, a humble… Read More
Carol Bowditch checks out the latest picture starring Marion Cotillard, in which a vulnerable woman is given one weekend to encourage her colleagues to give up their bonuses, which are being offered in exchange… Read More
The saying “inspired by a true story” is always worrying to accept at face-value. “Inspired by” rather than “based on” kinda suggests massive liberties were taken with the narrative. At first glance, that would certainly seem to… Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2mvLRMpNU&feature=youtu.be Bobby Townsend checks out the much anticipated feature debut of award winning Australian director Julius Avery: Having absolutely devoured the incredible Starred Up earlier in the year, my appetite for gritty crime dramas has… Read More
Bobby Townsend checks out the buttock-numbingly long, family/courtroom drama, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall: The story is thus: Big city lawyer Hank Palmer (RDJ) returns to his childhood home for his… Read More
Before The Conjuring, there was ANNABELLE, says the movie’s tagline, which tells us that what we’re being presented with is a prequel to the enthusiastically received 2013 American supernatural horror flick. The story, for what it’s… Read More
Bobby Townsend reviews the new comedy/drama from Daniel Schechter, which is adapted from the work of Elmore Leonard: You may recall author Elmore Leonard’s characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara being portrayed by Samuel L.… Read More
Australian actor/writer Josh Lawson makes his directorial debut in this comedy, which was voted second in the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature. The Little Death, derived from the expression… Read More
Celebrity guest contributor, the legendary Hugh Cornwell, reviews the new movie from writer/director Rowan Joffe, which sees a woman (played by Nicole Kidman) wake up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic… Read More
Not-unlike like MIA, there’s an upcoming Australian feature from writer/director Robert Connolly which flies like paper and gets high like planes. The trailer for it has just launched. Check it out above, it looks awesome.… Read More
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
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