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Saltburn (MA) - 131 minutes
What a bombshell of a film, where the rules of engagement are constantly shifting. It is slow burn, but when the axe drops it is anything...
Alex First
Nov 18, 20232 min read


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...
Alex First
Aug 25, 20233 min read


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
Jun 6, 20232 min read


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
Apr 18, 20232 min read


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
Sep 7, 20222 min read


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
Aug 5, 20222 min read


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
Jul 14, 20223 min read


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
Jun 9, 20223 min read


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
May 26, 20222 min read


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
Apr 1, 20222 min read


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 24, 20222 min read


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
Feb 14, 20222 min read


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 20, 20222 min read


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
Jan 4, 20222 min read


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
Jan 1, 20222 min read


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, 20212 min read


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, 20212 min read


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, 20212 min read


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, 20212 min read


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, 20212 min read
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