[Review] The Great Gatsby
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...
Nathan Bartlebaugh
[Review] Desperate Acts of Magic
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...
[Review] The Happy House
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...
[Review] Caroline and Jackie
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...
[Review] Kiss of the Damned
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 ...
[Review] Midnight’s Children
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...
[Review] Tai Chi Hero
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...
[Review] Bible Quiz
Our review of the top Slamdance Film Festival award winner, premiering tonight at the Newport Beach Film Festival....
[Review] The Numbers Station
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 ...
[Review] Mental
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...
