by Editor | Jan 30, 2016 | Film
The ensemble cast of Spotlight are happy to take a back seat and let the true story of the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child abuse do the work Halfway through Spotlight you notice other things. There are the ensemble performances. Michael Keaton confirming his...
by Editor | Jan 23, 2016 | Film
Ron Burgundy director Adam McKay has taken Michael Lewis’s devastating critique of the 2008 banking crisis and turned it into an entertaining ‘traumedy’ Hey, what if legendary news anchor Ron Burgundy – yeah, that guy – was asked to put together a...
by Editor | Jan 13, 2016 | Film
Leonardo DiCaprio has brutal encounters with a bear, a mendacious Tom Hardy and an uncaring Mother Nature in The Revenant, Alejandro Inarritu’s gruelling but stirring tale Will Glass break? That is the question throughout director Alejandro Inarritu’s gruelling epic...
by Editor | Sep 20, 2015 | Film
This based-on-a-true-story disaster movie may lose character in the blizzards but the camerawork is breathless and stunning The highlights of director Baltasar Kormakur’s estimable film are the stunning 3D visuals that capture the hypnotic lure of the headline...
by Editor | Aug 15, 2015 | Film
Beneath its gross-out exterior, Judd Apatow’s thoroughly modern romcom is really rather prudish and conformist in its conclusions Behind the gross-out humour and lewd romps of Trainwreck lies a very traditional rom-com. And a very traditional young lady. Whisper...
by Editor | Aug 2, 2015 | Film
Tom Cruise put through the mill in this impressive, adrenalin-fuelled confection that shows the 19-year-old Mission Impossible franchise still has legs This fifth instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise has many of the same characteristics of its star –...
