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Baby Done (M) - 91 minutes
Active, outdoors woman Zoe (Rose Matafeo) works as an arborist, alongside her boyfriend Tim (Matthew Lewis). Theirs is a happy union. It...
Alex First
Oct 18, 20202 min read


I am Greta - 97 minutes
A piercingly direct and effective communicator and yet she is only 15 and has Asperger’s. Further, she is both admired and loathed (more...
Alex First
Oct 15, 20202 min read


Feels Good Man (PG) - 93 minutes
OMG! What an eye opener. I had never heard of, or seen, a picture of Pepe the Frog before watching Feels Good Man. He was created by...
Alex First
Oct 15, 20202 min read


A Night at the Louvre: Leonardo da Vinci – 96 minutes
The world’s most famous painting by the world’s most famous artist in the world’s most famous museum. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci...
Alex First
Oct 13, 20202 min read


Hope Gap (M) - 100 minutes
She, Grace (Annette Bening) is intelligent, strong willed, heavily opinionated, volatile and fearsome – a force of nature. He, Edward...
Alex First
Oct 12, 20202 min read


Never Too Late (M) - 98 minutes
A mind-numbing comedy for senior citizens, Never Too Late relies on fanciful nonsense to move the story forward. A voiceover at the get...
Alex First
Oct 7, 20202 min read


From Kurils with Love
From Kurils with Love is a heartfelt 25-minute documentary about a chain of 56 isolated Russian volcanic islands, whose inhabitants,...
Alex First
Oct 5, 20202 min read


Lucky Grandma (M) - 88 minutes
In New York, a crotchety, old, chain smoking Chinese grandmother who lives alone with very little to her name gets lucky after exiting a...
Alex First
Oct 5, 20202 min read


Savage (MA) - 100 minutes
Brutal. Devastating. Powerful. A war of attrition borne of a rough, tyrannical upbringing in New Zealand told in three timeframes over 24...
Alex First
Oct 3, 20202 min read


The Leadership (M) - 97 minutes
Fabian Dattner was a highly successful businesswoman who took over and expanded the family business before financial pressures saw her...
Alex First
Sep 30, 20203 min read


On the Rocks (M) - 97 minutes
Much ado about nothing or a quirky film of substance? Having seen it, my strong inclination is to the former of the two propositions....
Alex First
Sep 26, 20202 min read


Sputnik (MA) - 114 minutes
A creepy creature feature that starts off with two cosmonauts planning to return to Earth from a space mission in 1983, it quickly morphs...
Alex First
Sep 24, 20202 min read


Buffaloed (MA) - 95 minutes
The hustle is rich pickings for cinema and Zoey Deutch has made Buffaloed her own vehicle. From an early age Peg is mesmerised by the...
Alex First
Sep 23, 20202 min read


Four Kids and It (PG) - 110 minutes
Bad acting is the hallmark of this far-fetched children’s fantasy. 13-year-old Ros (Teddie Malleson-Allen) is a bookworm, with...
Alex First
Sep 20, 20202 min read


Trolls World Tour (G) - 91 minutes
It is all about the music as Queen Poppy (the voice of Anna Kendrick) and her loyal and besotted sidekick Branch (Justin Timberlake)...
Alex First
Sep 20, 20202 min read


The Secrets We Keep (MA) - 98 minutes
The pall of what she experienced as a Romanian gypsy at the tail end of World War II sits heavily on Maja’s (Noomi Rapace – The Girl with...
Alex First
Sep 17, 20202 min read


An American Pickle (PG) - 89 minutes
Talk about getting yourself into a pickle. Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) most certainly does in more ways than one in a decidedly...
Alex First
Sep 16, 20202 min read


Swimming for Gold (G) - 91 minutes
Overcoming obstacles is the theme of this young person’s comedic drama, which – unfortunately – trawls the bottom of the barrel. After...
Alex First
Sep 16, 20203 min read


Adam (PG) - 101 minutes
Sensitive and affecting, Adam takes a close up look at two women caught in a maelstrom of emotional distress in one of Casablanca’s...
Alex First
Sep 6, 20202 min read


Slim & I (PG) - 117 minutes
Slim Dusty is a rolled gold Australian icon. No arguments there. He was the first Aussie to have an international number 1 hit song with...
Alex First
Sep 5, 20202 min read
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