Short Reviews
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Told through a combination of interviews with actress Liv Ullmann and letters written between her and Ingmar Bergman, Dheeraj Akolkar’s documentary paints a poignant yet rather dour portrait of the… Read More
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Will Smith and son Jaden must face their fears after crashlanding on a post-apocalyptic Earth 1000 years in the future. M. Night Shyamalan directs this bland, uninspiring vanity project that… Read More
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Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco are The Four Horsemen – Las Vegas magicians who are also high profile bank robbers. Mark Ruffalo, Melanie Laurent and Morgan… Read More
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As someone with tenuous associations to the Alamo Drafthouse, I am somewhat ashamed that it has taken me this long to watch the flagship release of their Drafthouse Films label.… Read More
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The Wolfpack reunites for a third, and hopefully final, time but the results are as vacuous and puerile as ever. Better than Part II, if only because it attempts to… Read More
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As much as anything I selected this title purely for some brainless, Sunday afternoon fun. I understand that it basically lifts its storyline from a recent computer game – Lex… Read More
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For a film that mostly consists of Al Pacino and Christopher Walken hanging out, reminiscing about the good old days and itching to get back in the action and go… Read More
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Can’t say that I was especially blown away by Haskell Wexler’s docudrama that follows Robert Forster’s Chicago TV cameraman as he surveys the turbulent climate that builds to the 1968… Read More
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Noomi Rapace reteams with Niels Arden Oplev, the Swedish director of the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for his Hollywood debut. She plays a facially scarred car crash… Read More
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Peter Chan takes a break from period action epics for this comedy drama centring on a trio of university friends who attempt to make their way to America and build… Read More
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The director of Shutter and Alone breaks all the box office records in Thailand with his latest, a vivacious and humorous retelling of one of the country’s most famous ghost… Read More
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I managed to miss this at a couple of different festivals last year, before finally catching up with it this week on iTunes. The feature debut from Eron Sheean stars… Read More
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I’ve had a copy of this film sitting in a boxset entitled The Exorcist Complete Anthology for many years now, and never felt especially compelled to give it a watch… Read More
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Sometimes you just need to seek the comfort of an evergreen classic, and with Shane Black delighting audiences around the world with his box office smash, Iron Man 3, I… Read More
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Winner of the grand prize at this year’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, this is the story of Saori, a young working girl who takes a new gig visiting and… Read More
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Chilean director Nicolas Lopez teams up with Eli Roth for a sadistic horror-disaster movie hybrid that follows a group of tourists through the rubble and chaos that follows a spectacular… Read More
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The debut feature from “the French Hitchcock” Henri-Georges Clouzot is a darkly humourous murder mystery, centring on a police inspector and his plucky girlfriend, who go undercover at a boarding… Read More
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