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

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...

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

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...

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

A fly on the wall look at a way of life that is all but gone, Honeyland focuses on a pragmatic and resilient woman who faces an...

Another example of an overacted Australian film, in this case it deals with post-traumatic stress disorder with a clenched fist. It...

Who would have thought there was so much intrigue in compiling the definitive Oxford English Dictionary and yet that there most certainly...

A harrowing, intense and dramatic story about a deeply troubled relationship between a son and his alcoholic father, Honey Boy features a...

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...

Leigh Whannell has breathed fresh, contemporary air into a century-old story and distinguished himself in the process. I am delighted to...

Motherless Brooklyn is a convoluted but compelling – if overly long – drama about a private eye with a photographic memory who is...

A delightful Indiana Jones-like, totally far-fetched, comedic period mystery, it features a surfeit of colourful characters, lavish...

A shaggy dog story with trite, platitudinous commentary and a far-fetched narrative, The Call of the Wild is not the greatest boys’ own...

Take an intergalactic blue hedgehog, add a good-natured, small-town sheriff and a never-ending battle with a maniacal, unhinged,...

The popular TV series of the same name that ran for seven seasons from 1977 involved guests being granted fantasies, but at a price...

A playful adaptation of Jane Austen’s acclaimed novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance, Emma circa 2020 is a...

Quirky. Supremely talented. A national living treasure. Whimsical. Amusing. Playful. Reflective. Provocative. A cartoonist. A painter. A...

Hero or villain? Richard Jewell, the movie, answers that question about the chief suspect in the Centennial Park bombing in 1996, which...

Dates can be awkward encounters at the best of times with each party trying their best to impress the other and not make a total fool of...