Baz Luhrmann’s spectacle-drunk adaptation of The Great Gatsby is exactly what its pedigree and trailers have suggested; a big hot mess that indulges its directo...
Stage magicians have pulled a bit of a re-appearing act on cinema screens this year, with not one but four recent features focusing on ‘the third most mocked pr...
There’s something about bed and breakfasts that make me uneasy. If I’m to be honest, it’s the falseness that accompanies mannered politeness treated like commer...
Awkward family tension gets a sublimely demented makeover in Adam Christian Clark’s Caroline and Jackie, a brooding psycho-drama that hits the ground running wh...
Xan Cassavetes returns the concept of the modern-day vampire to its bloody Euro-trash roots in Kiss of the Damned, a sumptuous, soft-focus erotic thriller that ...
What does it require to take the ‘unfilmable’ and transfer it successfully to screen?
This was the quandary director Deepa Mehta and author Salman Rushdie fa...
Stephen Fung returns to the zany world of steam-punk martial arts fantasy he created in last year’s Tai Chi Zero, dropping some of the hyperactive pop reference...
If John Cusack doesn’t watch out, he’s going to become Nicolas Cage. OK, maybe it’s unlikely that the amiable and snarky Cusack will ever achieve the wild-eyed ...
In P.J. Hogan’s new screwball comedy Mental, the hills are alive with the sound of pathos. The movie may open with Rebecca Gibney having a mentally divergent so...
