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.
If you think the premise behind Amy Schumer’s latest romp I Feel Pretty seems familiar, you’d be right. Switch out Schumer for Jack Black and insert Tony Robbins in place of a motivating SoulCycle trainer and you’ll find this well-intentioned romantic comedy bears a striking resemblance to 2001’s Shallow Hal.
Twenty-eighteen may still be in its juvenescence but I already know that The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will be my favourite film of the year.
Abracadabra is screening as part of the 21st Spanish Film Festival in Australia, which is looking to be a fantastic event, with a variety of interesting films to showcase, an opening night gala and afterparty with Torres wines, tapas and live entertainment, and closing with Oscar winner Guillermo Del Toro’s Spanish masterpiece, Pan’s Labyrinth (2006).
Rampage is undoubtedly the most idiotic film of the century. But…
Full disclosure: I thought I wasn’t going to like Isle of Dogs. I assumed it would be abstract and weird and that the animation would make me feel uncomfortable, the same way that Barbie dolls used as decorations on cakes makes me feel uncomfortable.
