Ocean’s 8 Movie Review
It has its own feel and its own pacing and in a few key moments, it has clever ties with the films that have come before. Also like a good caper, there is that substantial twist at the end that few, it any will have seen coming.
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While new director Gary Ross (The Hunger Games & Pleasantville) has his own kinetic feel, the influence of Steven Soderbergh (who serves as one of the film’s producers) continues to be strongly felt. The examples of fashion are ...
Win tickets to a very special screening at the Japanese Film Festival (JFF) Fringe!
This limited season will also present award-winning titles such as ‘In This Corner of the World’ and ‘The Long Excuse’, explosive action-comedy in ‘Gintama’, as well as the Australian premiere of fantasy period film ‘Honnouji Hotel’.
In Honnouji Hotel - past and present collide when Mayuko (Haruka Ayase), a young woman who lacks direction in life, checks into the mysterious Kyoto hotel. The unlikely combination of a music box, a local sweet and the hotel elevator transp...
Gringo Movie Review
David Oyelowo (Selma & Nightingale) plays Harold, a mild mannered accountant whose life is about to change in the most dramatic of ways. His behind the scenes work at a company run by college mate Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton) takes a turn for the worse, when the conniving Rusk and his female off-sider Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) run afoul of a Mexican drug lord.
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Theron overplays her wicked character to the hilt and it’s fun to see how low she will go. ...
Watch the trailer for ‘The Happytime Murders’, the first R-rated Muppets Movie!
THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS is a filthy comedy set in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist. Two clashing detectives with a shared secret, one human (Melissa McCarthy) and one puppet, are forced to work together again to solve the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show.
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THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS is based on an original story by Todd Berger and Dee Robertson; with the screenplay penned by Berger. Brian ...
Here’s the new trailer for Ideal Home – starring Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan!
In IDEAL HOME, celebrity chef Erasmus (Steve Coogan) and his partner Paul (Paul Rudd) have a happy and rather self-indulgent life together. Their perfect existence is turned upside down when, at a dinner party, Erasmus is surprised by the grandson he never knew he had.
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With the child’s father in prison it seems he has nowhere else to go and so, after much debate they decide to take him in. With changes and challenges on both sides, this could prove a recipe ...
Check out the first look image for Top End Wedding – starring Darwin’s own Miranda Tapsell!
As the couple travel through the Top End including Darwin, Katherine, Kakadu and the Tiwi Islands they find fulfilment for their own personal journeys through the wild beauty of the NT’s landscapes and the unbeatable charm of the NT’s characters that they meet along the way.
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The film is co-written by Joshua Tyler (Plonk), directed by Wayne Blair (The Sapphires, Cleverman) and produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight and Kylie du Fresne and Kojo ...
Win a Double Pass to see Helen Mirren’s new film The Leisure Seeker!
John and Ella Spencer have almost reached the end of the road; Ella is frail, while John’s memory is failing. Instead of quietly fading away, however, the Boston seventy-somethings flee the suffocating care of their doctors and children and hop aboard their vintage campervan, The Leisure Seeker, to visit the Florida Keys house of John’s hero, Ernest Hemingway.
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Screen veterans Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star as the ultimate grey nomads in The Leisure ...
Check out the first trailer from Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman!
“…this is Lee’s most vital and impassioned film in decades”
Steve Pond - The Wrap
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“…Lee reasserts himself once again as a vital, complex voice in cinema”
Richard Lawson - Vanity Fair
“Led by strong performances from John David Washington and Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman is sobering, darkly funny, uneven and impossible to ignore”
Tim Grierson - Screen Daily
BlacKkKlansman will be released in Australian cinemas August 9!
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Deadpool 2 Movie Review
Like the original film, Deadpool 2 is out right funny and filled with so many jokes both visual and dialogue based that as soon as the final credits finish you want to see it again to discover what you missed while everyone else was laughing. It also has a sting in the tail for those used to the final moments of Marvel films.
There are a large number of surprises awaiting audience members both new and old, the biggest of which is how much heart the new film has. Pulling off this amount ...
Watch the trailer for Palace Films latest release – Aurore
Fifty-year-old Aurore Tabort (Agnès Jaoui, The Taste of Others), separated from her husband and newly unemployed, discovers she is to become a grandmother. She feels as if her own life has come to a standstill and is slowly being pushed away to the fringes of society.
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But after bumping into the great love of her youth, Totoche, (Thibault de Montalembert, Call My Agent!) something changes… Aurore wonders if it might still be possible to embark on something ...
