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Man on a Ledge (Review) | By Anders Wotzke
Man on a Ledge is a fairly apt title for what is, undeniably, a movie about a man on a ledge. But given that it stars action drone Sam Worthington, you’ll be wishing they called it Man off a Ledge...
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John Carter (Review) | By Tom Clift
With a narrative as flat and barren as the red Martian landscape, Disney’s John Carter is a big-budget sci-fi spectacle that fails to excite or entertain. Adapted from the novels by Tarzan writer Edgar...
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Battleship (Review) | By Tom Clift
Based very, very loosely on the Hasbro board-game, Battleship (as in, “you sunk my…”) is the latest, loudest and stupidest example of the hyper-jingoistic, military-fetishising, intellect-lowering...
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Margaret (Review) | By Tom Clift
Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret opens in Australia on a miserly two screens this week, despite an impressive cast that includes Anna Paquin (TVs True Blood), Matt Damon (Contagion), Mark Ruffalo (The...
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Rampart (SFF Review) | By Tom Clift
Inspired by the same police corruption scandal of the 90s and starring Woody Harrelson (The Hunger Games) with a buzz-cut millimeters away from resembling Detective Vic Mackey’s shaved head, Rampart is...
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To the Wonder (TIFF Review) | By Chris Stuckmann
Terence Malick is a filmmaker so outside the Hollywood system that he refuses to even attend the premieres of his films. He’s been known to partially or even entirely remove actors from his movies, and...
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Red Dawn (Fantastic Fest Review) | By Tom Clift
The 2012 Fantastic Fest Film Festival closes not with a bang but with a fart, one that reeks of jingoism and all the laziest, mindless and whorish aromas of Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. The...
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The Man with the Iron Fists (Review) | By Tom Clift
Wu-Tang Clan front man RZA tries his hand at movie-making with The Man with the Iron Fists, an homage-sploitative throwback to the Chinese wuxia films that have long been an influence on his music....
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Rise of the Guardians (Review) | By Tom Clift
Super powered heroes join forces to combat a nefarious enemy. No, it’s not Marvel’s The Avengers, but rather DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians, a candy coloured children’s adventure film...
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Les Misérables (Review) | By Tom Clift
It’s captured the hearts of millions. It’s been performed in every corner of the globe. Now, one of the most beloved stage musicals in history gets the big screen cinematic treatment in Tom Hooper’s...
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