Film Review: Magnus
★★★☆☆ “The Mozart of chess” isn’t the most hip of nicknames but it goes some way to expressing the inexplicable, impossible genius of Magnus...
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17 February 2023
Film Review: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
★★★★☆ Bite-sized pearls of wisdom and wonderment from everyone’s favourite YouTube crustacean sensation make an elegant shuffle, frequent leaps and occasional tumbles from the internet to the big screen in Dean Fleischer Camp’s marvellous Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
25 May 2022
Film Review: Luzzu
★★★★☆ Maltese-American filmmaker Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu charts a course between the dispassionate neorealism of the Dardenne brothers and Gianfranco Rosi’s keen but objective documentarian eye. It is a touching parable of fathers and sons, tradition and modernity, principles versus practicality.
13 May 2022
Film Review: The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
★★☆☆☆ Actor, playwright, novelist and now screenwriter-director Leah Purcell – a Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri woman from rural Queensland – makes her debut with The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson.
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Film Review: United States of Love
★★★★☆ Tomasz Wasilewski’s United States of Love may take place just after 1989’s felling of the Berlin Wall but little of the era’s euphoric...
Film Review: Panic
★★★☆☆ In a city of millions, it isn’t right but it’s easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering of others. Lost in...
Film Review: 100 Streets
★★☆☆☆ Director Jim O’Hanlan takes us down many different London roads in 100 Streets, attempting to encompass the multiple criss-crossing tales of his debut...
DVD Review: Imperium
★★☆☆☆ For its many faults, Imperium has noble intentions. Inspired by incendiary true-to-life events, its narrative charts an undercover FBI operation to expose a...
Film Review: My Feral Heart
★★★★☆ We are taught from a young age never to judge a book by its cover. An idiom passed down from one generation to...
Film Review: The Ivory Game
★★★★☆ The stakes of The Ivory Game couldn’t be higher. Make the wrong moves now, or fail to make the right ones, and within...
Film Review: Into the Inferno
★★★☆☆ There’s something deeply unsettling about the unstoppable, magma-like flow of Werner Herzog’s Into the Inferno. Imperceptibly bubbling away in time with the veteran...
