Insidious: The Red Door Movie Review
Insidious: The Red Door envelopes the audience with just enough information to build a sense of unease that escalate throughout its 107-minute running time. This might underwhelm those who thirst for extreme violence or novel ways of dispatching victims.
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When you take the time and make the audience endure the pace you can build to a real climax. This is where most horror films lose the plot, too much violence and it becomes cartoonish, showing the protagonist in ...
Joy Ride Movie Review
The setup is simple Audrey (Ashley Park) and Lolo (Sherry Cola) are lifelong friends, having known each other since a very young age. Audrey is an overachieving lawyer and Lolo is a free spirit and struggling artist. Together they are the classic odd couple.
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When Audrey has to travel home to China to close a big deal she brings Lolo along and chaos ensues. The film pushes the boundaries and gloriously steps over the line time and time again. It makes you realise ...
The New Boy Movie Review
His new home is run by two renegade nuns played by Cate Blanchett and Deborah Mailman. Set in rolling fields of wheat writer/director Warwick Thornton who also triples as director of photography perfectly captures the sense of isolation.
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The boy is thrown into a way of life that is almost completely foreign to him and he keeps his distance from the other boys in the orphanage. Slowly the true nature of his character is revealed and he is shown to actually have the ...
Watch the first trailer for Drive-Away Dolls!
In search of a fresh start, the two embark on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals along the way.
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Directed by Ethan Coen, Drive-Away Dolls stars Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp and Matt Damon and will be released in Aussie cinemas September 21!
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Movie Review
After the opening WW 2 set-piece we jump forward in time to find Jones being awoken from a deep slumber by a neighbour loudly playing the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour to herald the arrival of the first men on the moon. This expensive use of a fab four tune successfully sets up the late sixties landscape, as does the slice-of-life scenes from New York City
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Coming in contact with his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) sets in motion a contrivance that ...
No Hard Feelings Movie Review
Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie Barker, one of the few permanent residents in Montauk, New York. The town is a destination for New Yorkers with money to while away the idyllic summer months by the water while the locals tend to their every need.
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Maddie, on the cusp of losing the house her late mother left her due to back taxes answers an ad to seduce the lonely child of a rich couple played by Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti. This predictable premise (for a ...
Elemental Movie Review
The story does have a message and not a particularly veiled one about acceptance of those that you share very little in common with. This is softened via a unique take and look of its main characters. There is also a very Eastern feel to the sense of family.
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Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) is a young female flame that is struggling to come to terms with the place in life her father has mapped out for her. When her life intersects with Wade Ripple (Mamoudou Athie) an ...
The Flash Movie Review
The Flash character has always inhabited a world similar to that of Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man is so much as a somewhat normal teen who through an accident is given special powers. These powers combined with the challenges of the teen years make them more relatable. We’ve all had awkward moments during that phase of life.
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Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) continues to be haunted by the death of his mother and the unjust incarceration of his father for her murder. He ...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Movie Review
Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) proves it is still tough being a young Spider-Man and balancing high school, girls and keeping the parental units unaware of your superhero antics. He’s also enduring the absence of gal pal Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld). When Gwen returns and seeks his help on a mission, it turns his life inside out.
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The look of the film is unlike any other and uses a plethora of animation techniques and a robust palette of colours to dazzle the ...
Renfield Movie Review
Things begin as we join Renfield (Hoult) in a self-help group for people in co-dependent relationships. At first, he is just there looking for victims but soon realises that he has had enough of procuring the human blood bags that the count needs to survive and now needs the tools to form an exit strategy.
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The subservient nature of Renfield’s occupation is played mostly for laughs. Even our darkest ideas of enduring the world’s worst boss seem a cakewalk ...
