itellyouwhatithink - Movie, Theatre & Travel Reviews

Alex First

The Bikeriders (M) - 116 minutes

Inspired by the reflections of a photojournalist who spent four years as a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, The Bikeriders...

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A Quiet Place: Day One (M) - 100 minutes

It could have been renamed how to avoid a “cat”astrophe – such was the screen time given to a moggy. A Quiet Place: Day One is an origin...

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A Silence (MA) - 101 minutes

A dark and dirty family secret explodes in A Silence. Astrid Schaar (Emmanuelle Devos) has said nothing about the deeply troubling matter...

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Disney's Beauty and the Beast, at Her Majesty's Theatre - 2 hours 10 minutes, plus a 20-minute interval

Superlatives hardly do justice to the magnificent staging of one of Disney’s all-time favourites, Beauty and the Beast, which has been...

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The Great Moscow Circus Extreme, under the Big Top at J.L. Murphy Reserve in Port Melbourne - 100 minutes, plus a 20-minute interval

The “wow” factor is significant in The Great Moscow Circus Extreme, which introduces a number of a dare devil acts I’d never seen before...

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Recollection (Pot Kettle Black Productions), at fortyfivedownstairs - 80 minutes, with no interval

Olivia (Eve Morey) is heartbroken. Her bright, talented, intelligent, 16-year-old daughter Molly (Molly Holohan) – an artist in the...

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The Platypus, at Theatre Works (Buckets Nijinsky Productions) - 100 minutes, plus a 20-minute interval

The disintegration of a marriage with a decided difference. The Platypus is confronting, comedic (anarchic, even) and creative. Two...

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The Teacher Who Promised The Sea – 105 minutes

Turning back the clock to the horrors of the murderous Franco regime with a highly personal 2010 search, The Teacher Who Promised the Sea...

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Despicable Me 4 (PG) - 95 minutes

Oh my. What a wonderful fourth movie in the franchise (six if you count the Minions’ films). How clever, creative and funny. The...