Saturday Night Movie Review
It has been said that if you remember anything about the seventies, you weren’t actually there but as a teenager staring at the television set with disbelief as the original live broadcast burned itself into my brain cells, the memories are still vivid. The characters that made up the cast had such strong on-screen personalities and the comic routines were so outrageous for their time. The moral pendulum that swings in both directions time after time was actually being influenced by a TV ...
Brisbane International Film Festival – Teaches of Peaches Movie Review
The documentary Teaches of Peaches tells this story in her own words and the words of friends mixed with archival live footage and well-known video clips. Her journey has been a fascinating one and her bravery in not following expectations shows a true punk rock spirit. Few in the music business have been this courageous or immune to the expectations of others.
Her concerts are such a joyous communal experience because they are so inclusive. Looking out into her audience will defy your ...
Brisbane International Film Festival – Daddio Movie Review
The set-up is basic as we catch a preoccupied-looking Johnson exiting the airport and grabbing a cab from the rank to transport her back into Manhattan. Behind the wheel is Clark (Penn) a twenty-plus-year veteran of driving people where they want to go. He is a keen observer of the human condition and those decades have not been wasted.
They soon strike up a conversation that will slowly reveal hidden secrets and expose the depths of their internal conflicts. It is fascinating watching, ...
Brisbane International Film Festival – Rumours Movie Review!
How crazy you might ask. Well, there are wanking zombies who put out fires with the climax of a circle jerk, an adjunct who climbs on top of a giant brain and self-immolates herself and Cate Blanchett with one of the worst faux German accents ever put to film. Oh, and the leader of Canada sports the type of ironic man bun that would put any barista to shame.
The seven leaders of the free world are presented as almost petulant children and it’s funny to see them act so juvenile and ...
Venom: The Last Dance Movie Review
The stakes are high this time with the end of the world as we know it at risk. It’s all explained before the opening credits even roll and after the film’s end it still makes no sense but that’s part of the fun. Hardy who carries with him a reputation for achieving a certain level of seriousness is a lot of fun to watch as the ever-unwinding human caught with this unwanted passenger.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor relishes the chance to play military hard-man Rex Strick...
Hellboy: The Crooked Man Movie Review
Joining the fun is a new actor playing the big guy by the name of Jack Kesy who has the swagger and world-weary chat down pat. He is joined on the journey by scientist Bobbie Jo Song (Adeline Rudolph) and a Junior G-Man who is dispensed with almost immediately. When their monster in a box escapes, they end up wandering through the local lands trying to find it.
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The film is roughly split into two parts: the wandering part and the battle against the devil and his ...
The Black Mass Movie Review
Bundy was one of the US’s most prolific serial killers and the true number of his victims will never be known after his execution by electrocution in 1989 in a Florida State Prison at the age of 42. His intelligence and good looks were advantages to him in securing his victims but this film plays against that perception.
The Bundy character (called Patrick in this work) is played by Jeremy London as an awkward and socially inept person. His attempts at human connection always come up ...
My Old Ass Movie Review
Elliott (Maisy Stella of the TV show Nashville) is a girl in transition. She is finding her way in the world and many things remain undecided. Her sexuality is fluid as is her comfort to the life laid out in front of her. She dreams of leaving her hometown and bristles under the direction and limited opportunities afforded by its small population.
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Into this mix of conflicting emotions comes a night like no other. While tripping on mushrooms with her two best gal ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Gloria! Movie Review
Teresa (Galatéa Bellugi) is a young servant girl at a musical school for orphans. She is mute but seems to love music, she also appears to be suffering from some sort of trauma. When she discovers a brand new pianoforte in a storeroom that was gifted to the school, she sits down and begins to tickle the ivories.
Teresa has real musical skills but they come out in a most peculiar way (for the times). When four other students hear her playing in the middle of the night they join forces to ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Comandante Movie Review
Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino - World War Z and Angels & Demons) was a real-life World War II veteran, who even though he was saddled with a severe back injury continued to serve in the Italian army. He was given command of the submarine Comandante Cappellini and asked to join the Battle of the Atlantic.
That battle, which was the longest continuous military campaign of the War was a horrendous campaign and led to an unimaginable number of casualties both civilian and ...
