month : 09/2024 22 results

2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Trust Movie Review

The basic story revolves around the life of a teacher named Pietro, played by Elio Germano. He appears to be a great teacher with a unique teaching method and is loved by all his students. That is the initial impression you are given, yet the addition of more information will tilt your perception of both his character and morality.   //   This information comes via a large number of scenes that suggest much but confirm little. This technique at first is somewhat off-pu...

A special preview screening of Megalopolis is coming to Dendy Cinemas Coorparoo!

A 40-year passion project brought to life with over $120 million of Francis Ford Coppola’s own money, giving him complete creative control, and a cinematic spectacle that demands to be seen on the big screen, this ambitious sci-fi epic, deeply inspired by the Roman Empire, not to mention The Fountainhead, Shakespeare, and Dickens, tells the story of New Rome, a futuristic city plagued by corruption. Adam Driver stars as an architect striving to build a utopian society, alongside a ...

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 ...

Wicked the Musical Theatre Review

Setting the timelines of Wicked before and after the events in the film was a masterstroke and opens up the storylines substantially. We discover that Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West played by Sheridan Adams didn’t start out so wicked and that Glinda the Good (Courtney Monsma) wasn’t always so good. Even the Great Oz is given more stick as being the fraud he is.   //   This Australian production of Wicked is immense. Eugene Lee’s set design is spectacular and ...

Watch Tom Hardy in the final trailer for Venom: The Last Dance!

Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.   //   Venom: The Last Dance will be released in Aussie cinemas October 24! www.facebook.com/SonyPicturesAUS/

Check out the new trailer for Saturday Night – in cinemas October 31!

Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.   //   Full of humour, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words… Starring (in order of appearance) Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella ...

The Wild Robot Movie Review

Her software allows her to learn and eventually understand and communicate with the native fauna. After accidentally destroying a family's bird nest she becomes the sole protector of Brightbill (Kit Connor) and also befriends an outcast fox named Fink (Pedro Pascal). She remains an outcast herself and this creates a bond between the three.   //   It speaks to the quality of the writing that these computer-generated characters are imbued with such emotional resonance that ...

Dendy Powerhouse Outdoor Cinema – Runt Movie Review with Nina the Cavoodle

Those kind folks at Dendy and Think Tank pulled out all the stops and there were so many of my fellow doggies that turned out on the night, it was pawsome. I might have even fallen in love again but then a true lady doesn’t speak openly of such things in public. Everybody was so nice and all my new four-legged friends smelled great.   //   Even with all the activities, treats and cuddles, the best part of the night were the moving images up on that big screen. They ...

Speak No Evil Movie Review

The Daltons’ family unit, which also includes daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler) are strangely drawn to Paddy, his partner Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) and their son Ant (Dan Hough). Louise is hesitant but Ben sees a free spirit in Paddy that he misses in himself and is willing to look past the eccentricities that Paddy has in overabundance. After the Italian holiday finishes, they are invited to join their new friends at their home in England.   //   What starts as a ...

Check out the first teaser trailer for Wolf Man – coming to cinemas January 16!

From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: Wolf Man. Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner; ...