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Vivarium Movie Review

Upon visiting the tract, the Yonder property personifies cookie cutter building methods to a t. Every home looks absolutely identical and Martin has an answer for every question. Midway through the sales presentation on house 9, he disappears, leaving the couple completely on their own. Upon leaving, every attempt to drive their car out of the estate is met with a return to the original departure point, house number 9.   //   After all attempts to escape prove ineffect...

Retro Movie Review – The Nice Guys

Crowe is unafraid to play a role far removed from his usual on-screen persona and he lets his advancing age and lack of fitness give the role a realistic and well-worn feel. It’s one that is free from the false heroics that mar so many similar roles. Gosling gets the nuance just right between glamour boy idiot and heart of gold father. These two play off each other and the friendship that builds between them is so naturally developed; it’s a real pleasure to behold.   // ...

Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears Movie Review

This time the adventure is set in the Middle East and involves Bedouin tribes and ancient curses. It also visits the English aristocrats while they drink champagne and nibble on cucumber sandwiches. There are murders and prison escapes and Miss Fisher does her best to stay one step ahead of the action.   //   It must be said that those expecting an expanded palate with the move to the big screen will be disappointed. The film plays out like a TV movie of the week and has ...

Watch the trailer for Motherless Brooklyn, in Australian cinemas February 27!

Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.   //   In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn and, finally, into the gilded halls of New York's power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption and the most dangerous man in the city to honor his friend and save the woman who might be ...

The Lighthouse Movie Review

Two lighthouse keepers, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert Pattinson) share the duties of keeping a lighthouse located on a small and isolated island operational. Their daily grind is harsh and almost overwhelming. As the story progresses more and more crazy sets in until you feel the two men becoming increasingly unhinged.   //   Dafoe is fantastic as the grizzled old man with a wonderfully cadenced delivery and a timeworn sea tale for every occasion. ...

Underwater Movie Review

That is does so in such a duplicitous manner speaks more of the originality of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece than it does of director William Eubank's lack of imagination. The film’s overriding and repetitive flaw is the implausibility of almost all of the scientific details. It demands an almost superhuman suspension of disbelief.   //   There are more than a few successful jolts to the system as things jump out at you but the murkiness of all of the underwater scenes ...

Win double in-season tickets to The Lighthouse!

From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.   //   Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse is in selected Cinemas February 6. www.facebook.com/UniversalPicturesAU To enter this great competition just fill out the entry form below. Competition will be drawn February 4, ...

Watch the new trailer for The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse will be released in Australian cinemas February 6! www.facebook.com/UniversalPicturesAU

Watch the new official trailer for Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears!

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears takes fans on an exhilarating new journey of mystery and mayhem through exotic 1920s British Palestine to the opulence of grand London manors.   //   MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS is directed by Tony Tilse and stars Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Rupert Penry-Jones, Isabelle Yella, Miriam Margolyes and Ashleigh Cummings. MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS releases in Australia in theatres on February 27, 2020. www.facebook.com/r...

Black Christmas Movie Review

Still set in the world of sorority houses, hazing and the holidays, we follow Riley Stone (Imogen Poots) as she recovers from a traumatic experience and tries to bond with her fellow sorority sisters. When a number of her friends go missing, she alone feels that something is not right.   //   The film’s pacing does little to build the tension as its middle section is quite slow and doesn’t really take advantage of the underlying reason that the girls are going ...