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The Wedding Banquet (M) – 104 minutes
A delightful crowd pleaser, The Wedding Banquet is a reworking of a movie of the same name, co-written and directed by Ang Lee, which was...
Alex First
May 202 min read


Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (M) – 169 minutes
I have enjoyed and largely appreciated the Tom Cruise-led Mission: Impossible franchise, which now extends to eight movies (dating back...
Alex First
May 162 min read


La Cocina (MA) - 139 minutes
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Such goes the popular proverb.  That may be the case for those working in the sweat...
Alex First
May 93 min read


The Penguin Lessons (M) – 110 minutes
Take a disillusioned Englishman, drop him in the middle of a hotbed of discontent, add the surprise appearance of a penguin and, voila,...
Alex First
May 83 min read


The Salt Path (M) – 115 minutes
The odds are well and truly stacked against you, but you feel you have nothing more left to lose. Â That was the situation that...
Alex First
May 73 min read


Thunderbolts* (PG) – 127 minutes
The director of the CIA and powerful head of a shadowy cutting edge tech company Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is...
Alex First
May 43 min read


Monsieur Aznavour (M) – 134 minutes
Driven and never satisfied, the life of one of the great singer/songwriters is put under the microscope in Monsieur Aznavour. Â The movie...
Alex First
Apr 302 min read


The Correspondent (M) - 119 minutes
Highly regarded Australian journalist Peter Greste was arrested by Egyptian authorities in Cairo on 29th December, 2013. Â He was working...
Alex First
Apr 262 min read


Misericordia (R) - 104 minutes
Misericordia is a dark French comedy, cum psychological drama, set in a village where residents hardly sleep at night and there is a...
Alex First
Apr 252 min read


Hysteria - 104 minutes
Shocking, racially motivated fires – arson – in Germany in 1993 resulted in the death of five Turks.  More than 30 years later, Mehmet...
Alex First
Apr 242 min read


The Accountant 2 (MA) – 133 minutes
To say there is a lot going on in The Accountant 2 is an understatement. Â It is a high stakes crime thriller with comedic elements. Â ...
Alex First
Apr 232 min read


The Seed of the Sacred Fig (M) – 168 minutes
Set in Tehran, this Oscar nominated film for Best International Feature is a distressing, but compelling watch. Â For the past 20 years,...
Alex First
Apr 213 min read


Drop (MA) - 95 minutes
An entertaining psychological thriller, Drop involves menacing trolling in the most unlikely of circumstances. Â Violet (Meghann Fahy) is...
Alex First
Apr 193 min read


Sinners (MA) - 137 minutes
Evil pervades in the fifth collaboration between writer and director Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther, Fruitvale...
Alex First
Apr 193 min read


Warfare - 95 minutes
Intense, traumatising and authentic, Warfare continues co-writer and co-director Alex Garland’s (28 Days Later, Ex Machina, Civil War)...
Alex First
Apr 93 min read


A Minecraft Movie (PG) – 101 minutes
A fantasy, adventure, comedy based on the highly successful 2011 videogame, it centres on good and evil, and a portal to other worlds. Â ...
Alex First
Apr 73 min read


Small Things Like These (M) - 98 minutes
Cloaked in mystery, Small Things Like These is an atmospheric, heartfelt elegy, featuring a phenomenal leading performance from Cillian...
Alex First
Apr 53 min read


Oh, Canada (M) - 91 minutes
Oh, Canada is a confessional … a reckoning for a dying man.  Writer and director Paul Schrader collaborated with actor Richard Gere 45...
Alex First
Mar 303 min read


A Working Man (MA) - 117 minutes
I cringe when I say this, but here is another one man against the world movie. Think quiet assassin. Â Action heroes like Sylvester...
Alex First
Mar 283 min read


Snow White (PG) - 109 minutes
With charming characters and impressive special effects, the reimagined Snow White is delightful. Â The original 1937 animated film Snow...
Alex First
Mar 233 min read
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