FOR Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you would have heard about Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne’s casting as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Born Einar Wegener, Lili was […]
Review: Chemsex – Hard-hitting, honest and raw
One of the most brutal and hard-hitting documentaries of this year, William Fairman and Matt Gogarty present an emotionally compelling film about the lives of those affected by chemsex. Chemsex is a term used to […]
Review: Room – Hard not to fall in love with
Director Lenny Abrahamson’s Room is an astonishing feat of cinema. What could be a deeply unsettling story instead manages to rise up above its sombre start to become a life-affirming, joyous film. Based on the […]
Review: Rams – A tale of two brothers
Rams is set in the remote landscape of northern Iceland where the livelihoods of two estranged brothers, Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson), are threatened when their sheep must be culled due to an […]
Review: Dirty Grandpa – Actually quite good
Dan Mazer’s Dirty Grandpa puts a hilarious spin on the classic, sleazy Spring Break film. Sun, booze, a topless Zac Efron, and one dirty Grandpa make this an intensely funny and harmlessly predictable comedy. The storyline […]
Review: Daddy's Home – A classic Will Ferrell comedy
Daddy’s Home once again sees the comic union of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in their latest slapstick comedy. The general premise is a standoff between the try-hard step-dad, Ferrell, and the overtly macho, biological […]
Review: The Smuggler – A tense, comic thriller
Not many films can boast such an intriguing plotline as Angus Sampson’s The Smuggler (named The Mule in Australia), in which the simple yet distressing notion of someone being unable to go to the toilet […]
Review: Exposed – A Collection of Shallow Archetypes
Declan Dale does not exist. Declan Dale is a pseudonym for the director who abandoned this film after Lionsgate Premiere edited what was meant to be a bilingual, surrealist drama (sounds promising so far) into […]
Review: Creed – Comeback of the Year
We enter the fray in Juvie, where a troubled youth by the name of Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) is being held. He is picked up and taken in by Mary Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad) […]
Review: The Hateful Eight – Not Tarantino's best
The eighth film by Quentin Tarantino sees a group of strangers spend a couple of days in an inn in the snowy wilderness of 19th century Wyoming. There’s two bounty hunters, a bounty, a hangman, […]
Comment: is 2016 the year of women in film?
Towards the end of 2015 and in this first month of 2016, are we starting to see the long-awaited rise of female leadership? The seventh Star Wars film passed the Bechdel Test; the pretty basic standards […]
Review: The Danish Girl – More than meets the eye
On the surface Tom Hooper’s (Les Misérables, The Kings Speech) The Danish Girl is the typical winter-release Oscar fodder that’s expected to sweep the floor come awards season. However, there is more to this film […]