Alex First
Oppenheimer (MA) - 180 minutes
Was he the devil or a saviour? If J. Robert Oppenheimer didn’t invent the ultimate killing machine, would someone else from a rival...
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Alex First
- Jun 5
- 2 min
Euphoria at Melbourne Town Hall - 155 minutes
As Gordon Gekko, in the 1987 Oliver Stone-directed hit film Wall Street, Michael Douglas said “greed, for lack of a better word, is...
Alex First
- Apr 18
- 2 min
Allelujah (M) - 99 minutes
I can’t think of too many films I have detested more than Allelujah. The British drama, written by Heidi Thomas and directed by Richard...
Alex First
- Sep 6, 2022
- 2 min
Three Thousand Years of Longing (M) - 108 minutes
The highest grossing film of 1992, Aladdin, that gave us the story of the Genie in a lamp. Fast forward 30 years and now you have the...
Alex First
- Aug 4, 2022
- 2 min
Employee of the Month (M) - 85 minutes
Vincent Peltier’s (Jerome Commandeur) life is on the line in the often-hilarious French comedy Employee of the Month. When travelling...
Alex First
- Jul 13, 2022
- 3 min
Antarctica 3D (IMAX) - 45 minutes
While it is the coldest place on Earth, where temperatures plunge to as low as 90 degrees below zero and the water temperature is...
Alex First
- Jun 8, 2022
- 3 min
Jurassic World: Dominion (147 minutes)
Locusts were one of the 10 plagues of Egypt and so it is in Jurassic World: Dominion. Gigantic sized grasshoppers threaten the world’s...
Alex First
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
A Stasi Comedy (115 minutes), part of the German Film Festival
East German’s Stasi (Ministry for State Security) operated from 1950 to 1990. The secretive police agency had a notorious reputation for...
Alex First
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
The Duke (M) - 95 minutes
Based upon fact, The Duke is the story of a 60-year-old old British man who in 1961 allegedly stole a painting worth 140,000 pounds (at...
Alex First
- Feb 23, 2022
- 2 min
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (M) - 95 minutes
Truth or fiction? A brilliant, self-sufficient, Hungarian-born neurosurgeon about to turn 40, Marta Vizy (Natasa Stork), meets the man of...
Alex First
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Blacklight (M) - 104 minutes
Blacklight is an action crime procedural starring Liam Neeson as an off the books FBI agent. The movie starts with a young woman, Sofia...
Alex First
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min
Drive My Car (MA) - 179 minutes
Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a celebrated actor and theatre director, while his wife Oto (Reika Kirishima) is a screenwriter....
Alex First
- Jan 4, 2022
- 2 min
I'm Wanita (MA) - 88 minutes
What a woman! As the saying goes, they broke the mould when they created her. Wanita likes to be known as Australia’s queen of...
Alex First
- Dec 31, 2021
- 2 min
House of Gucci (MA) - 158 minutes
Lady Gaga packs a hell of a punch in the tangled web that is House of Gucci. When we first meet him in the late 1970s, Maurizio Gucci...
Alex First
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Power of the Dog (M) - 127 minutes
Jane Campion has written and directed some memorable movies, including The Piano (1993). Now she has added to her already impressive...
Alex First
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Tick, Tick ... Boom! (M) - 120 minutes
Jonathan Larson wrote the smash hit Broadway musical Rent. How he got there involved pain and persistence. That’s the subject of Tick,...
Alex First
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Tragedy of Macbeth (M) - 105 minutes
I couldn’t think of a better use of the term murder of crows than when describing Joel Coen’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy...
Alex First
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Delicious (M) - 113 minutes
How was the restaurant born? The French dramatic comedy Delicious answers that question. At the dawn of the French Revolution, Pierre...
Alex First
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
West Side Story (M) - 156 minutes
A masterful adaptation of the 1957 quintessential musical, Steven Spielberg has crafted a searing drama from teen discontent. While...
Alex First
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Worst Person in the World (MA) - 128 minutes
She was a decent and friendly person who could be happy, loving … and argumentative. She was going to be a doctor, then a psychologist,...
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