Alex FirstMar 5, 20202 minThe Way Back (M) - 108 minutesIt 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...
Alex FirstMar 5, 20202 minCitizen K (M) - 126 minutesHero or villain? Murderer? Opportunist. Oligarch. Jailed dissident. Campaigner for a democratic Russia. These are just some of the...
Alex FirstMar 5, 20203 minDark Waters (M) - 127 minutesWhite 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...
Alex FirstMar 5, 20202 minUndertow (MA) - 95 minutesAFL and NRL players behaving badly ... getting drunk and disorderly and having their way with young, attractive women. Unfortunately, it...
Alex FirstMar 5, 20202 minHoneyland (M) - 86 minutesA 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...
Alex FirstMar 4, 20202 minEscape and Evasion (MA) - 92 minutesAnother example of an overacted Australian film, in this case it deals with post-traumatic stress disorder with a clenched fist. It...
Alex FirstFeb 29, 20202 minThe CurtainA slow moving, wordy piece about loneliness, fragility and connection, I can’t say The Curtain lit up my life. Photos by Theresa Harrison...
Alex FirstFeb 27, 20202 minThe Professor and the Madman (M) - 125 minutesWho would have thought there was so much intrigue in compiling the definitive Oxford English Dictionary and yet that there most certainly...
Alex FirstFeb 26, 20202 minHoney Boy (MA) - 94 minutesA harrowing, intense and dramatic story about a deeply troubled relationship between a son and his alcoholic father, Honey Boy features a...