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Navigating a romantic entanglement can be – and often is – difficult enough. But when it comes to two – at the same time – it is in a league of its own, espe...

The despicable acts of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein come into sharp focus as The Assistant unfolds. Jane (Julia Garner) is a young, savvy personal ...

A photographer who has covered the world’s trouble spots and suffers badly from PTSD befriends a hardworking Sudanese man with a secret traumatic past. Heart...

Underground private ambulances competing for patients, begging for money and paying police bribes. That’s what we witness up close and personal as we are fro...

Youthful anarchy is at the heart of a largely black and white film set just before the British government enacted legislation banning amplified repetitive be...

A surreal nightmare, Vivarium is a descent into madness. It is designed to do your head in … and it does. Here’s the scenario – Tom (Jesse Eisenberg), a gard...

Weird and wacky film noir, Burning Kiss is a psychedelic whodunnit in reverse. By that I mean we know who perpetrated the crime, but the disgraced former det...

Some seriously messed up material is the essence of Come to Daddy, which fits comfortably in the horror/black humour genre. An irreverent screenplay which pu...

A voyage of discovery, filled with intrigue and subterfuge. That is the race against time and the breakthrough concerning electric light that is at the heart...

Westerners being kidnapped and held for ransom in Latin America has, unfortunately, become far too commonplace. That is the starting point for a harrowing dr...

A ripping yarn and a grand adventure, The Personal History of David Copperfield delights. It highlights just how magnificent a writer Charles Dickens was, th...

At a time when millions of people around the world are streaming e-sports content every day, it's not hard to imagine a possible future with the blood-sport ...

Talk about a dysfunctional extended family. Colin Burstead (Neil Maskell) most certainly has one and then some. So, why would he arrange to celebrate New Yea...

A remarkable character study into blatant racism in America, this is Thelma & Louise for a new generation. Set amidst the upheaval of modern-day, media-fuele...

Imagine you are the wife or partner or child of a member of the military who is sent off to war. How would you feel in the lead up to and during the period y...

Excruciating. That’s a summary of this decidedly ordinary take on a very decent European film called Force Majeure (2014). It is meant to be the ski holiday ...

It may follow the playbook, but that doesn’t mean The Way Back doesn’t grip and grip tightly. Back in high school, Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) had everythi...

Hero or villain? Murderer? Opportunist. Oligarch. Jailed dissident. Campaigner for a democratic Russia. These are just some of the triggers in a fascinating ...

White hot rage. That is what built in me the longer Dark Waters went on. It is, indeed, a shocking story of corporate greed at the expense of humanity – mult...

AFL and NRL players behaving badly ... getting drunk and disorderly and having their way with young, attractive women. Unfortunately, it has become a recurri...