Director Philip Gelatt’s They Remain is a horror movie, that sadly, in spite of a strong build and bucketloads of potential, fails to drench the audience with its much-promised fear.
We meet awkward teenager Jeffrey Dahmer in 1970’s Milwaukee, and as we view his troubled life through the eyes of his peers in high-school, we learn that there is much more to him than one would expect.
Solo: A Star Wars Story recalls the early days of one of the franchise’s most beloved characters, Han Solo, played here by Alden Ehrenreich. It’s an entertaining romp through the Star Wars extended universe, but fails to deliver anything fresh to audiences.
In Times of Fading Light is an intimate, slow building portrait of a family of German communists, during the tumultuous, typically jubilant period of German history when the Berlin Wall came down.
Deadpool 2 features a story with genuine heart, shrouded somewhere behind the whizz-bang action and constant, never-ending jokes, quips and pop-culture references.
Charlize Theron delivers a powerful, fearless performance showing the messy, exhausting reality of motherhood in Tully, from director Jason Reitman.
It’s always touch and go with Adam Sandler as to whether his films are going to make me laugh or make me cringe. I was especially sceptical about The Week Of and wasn’t expecting anything more than the crass lines that Sandler usually delivers.
The Gateway features an interesting, if unoriginal science-fiction premise with a talented cast, but fails to hit the emotional core of its viewers.
I think I did high school wrong. Way wrong. I didn’t get up to a tenth of the mischief that the girls in Dude did, and yet they totally rocked it.
Australian talent shines in Breath, a beautiful adaptation of Tim Winton’s award-winning novel about teenage self-discovery through surfing.
Enabler (noun): a person who enables another to persist in negative or self-destructive behaviour. The Netflix original film 6 Balloons explores the dynamics between ‘addict’ and ‘enabler’ through the lens of a tense brother/sister relationship.
Rungano Nyoni’s debut film I Am Not a Witch is a unique and strangely captivating film, portraying superstitions surrounding witchcraft that still exist in rural parts of Africa.
Screening as part of the American Essentials Film Festival, Outside In should no doubt be a highlight amongst its other counterparts. After 20 years in prison, Chris (Jay Duplass) comes back to his small home town where he reunites with his high school teacher Carol (Edie Falco), who helped reduce his sentence.
After ten years and eighteen movies with interconnecting storylines, Marvel Studios brings it all together in the event-film to end all other event-films – Avengers: Infinity War, and it doesn’t disappoint.
You know that feeling when you go to the cinema by yourself? There’s a group in the row behind gossiping mindlessly. You had arranged to meet someone, who cancelled, now you are alone. The empty seats beside you take on a further quality of distance and isolation. The whispering voices of others synchronise with your own subconscious fears. Then the film starts.
“I am underwhelmed,” I said, pushing open the doors to the cinema as the credits for A Wrinkle in Time rolled on behind me. I chose this particular wording because it was a favourite line in the film, stated not once but twice by two different characters, during two completely unrelated scenes with no one connection to the other whatsoever.
