After being a film reviewer for many years, the surprise quotient unfortunately diminishes, so saying A Big Bold Beautiful Journey was a pleasant discovery is an understatement. This love story turns convention on its head in such an inviting manner that it makes you search your own life for parallel experiences. 

David (Colin Farrell) presents himself as a solitary being, suffering in quiet solitude while going it alone. Through the strangest of circumstances, he finds himself driving solo to a wedding in a rented Saturn automobile (an American brand that only lasted twenty-five years before becoming defunct). At the wedding, he meets Sarah (Margot Robbie), an outwardly bold person with hidden damage of her own.

Through another outlandish circumstance, the two end up travelling together, guided by the most personal of GPS devices. This adventure leads them to a series of doors that, once traversed, reveal moments from their past. The revelations within these worlds recast their thoughts and feelings about key moments in their lives. These moments become epiphanies.

The sign of a well-told story where humanism is at its core are those moments that arise from self-examination. Can I relate to this in a private and or personal manner? Does A Big Bold Beautiful Journey affect one in this way? It certainly did this over-experienced reviewer.
Rob Hudson
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Some doors bring you to your past. Some doors lead you to your future. And some doors change everything.

Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

Starring Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell with Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey will be released in Aussie cinemas September 18!
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Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

Starring Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell with Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey will be released in Aussie cinemas September 18!
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The story begins when a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob’s Burgers, blocking the entrance indefinitely and ruining the Belchers’ plans for a successful summer.

While Bob and Linda struggle to keep the business afloat, the kids try to solve a mystery that could save their family’s restaurant. As the dangers mount, these underdogs help each other find hope and fight to get back behind the counter, where they belong.

The Bob’s Burgers Movie will be relased in Aussie cinemas May 26!
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Cody’s script about an aging Lita Ford-type rocker who fritters her life away in rock’n’roll while neglecting her responsibility to her three children has little going for it. The story has Ricki making a belated attempt to reconnect with her adult children after her daughter suffers a messy, emotionally damaging divorce. The tension that exists between Ricki and her cynical and sardonic children, and her hard working well-to-do ex-husband and his new wife, is excruciating for the most part. There’s just no getting around the obvious fact that Ricki has made this bed for herself and her family rightly hates her for it. Her feeble attempts to make it right are both sad and pathetic and watching her do it is torturous for the audience. A strange mix for a film which presents itself as lightweight entertainment.

The one pleasant surprise in the movie is the inclusion of Rick Springfield. It’s easy to be cynical about plucking an 80’s pop music heartthrob out of nowhere to play an older version of himself. It seems an unabashed attempt to attract a certain demographic to the movie, and it probably is, but the truth is Springfield gives a heart felt, albeit limited, performance – indeed, he is the heart of the movie.

Streep is unimpressive; merely dishing up a stereotypical cliché of her character and it’s painful to watch her vaudeville performance. Kevin Kline is Kevin Kline.

Finally the film attempts to lambast us with ‘feel good’ ending but after all we’ve endured, it stretches credulity to believe that a happy family could be instantly born through the power of music alone.

Stuart Jamieson
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