Adapting a popular TV show to the big screen is always a tricky business. How do you make that transition to a different medium and still maintain the show’s magic? Do you just reproduce the show in a bigger more spectacular form, do you opt for the Brady Bunch style affectionate pastiche or do you try to reinvent it like
Read moreWest of Memphis is a powerful and sometimes infuriating documentary that describes the events surrounding the plight of the so-called West Memphis Three. On May 6th 1993 the bound bodies of three eight year old boys: Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steven Branch were pulled from a creek in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Local teenagers Damien Echols, Jason
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 8th FEBRUARY 2013 1. TINY MIGRANTS – A Public Execution. (Aus) 2. CUSTOM KINGS – Sunday. (Aus) 3. LITTLE BIRDY – Run run run. (Aus) 4. TWO GALLANTS – Song of songs. 5. THE STRAIGHT ARROWS – Lies. (Aus) 6. GARY CLARK JR – Bright lights. 7. TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – Scissor people. 8.
Read moreMovie 43 raises two important questions, why are there so many big stars in this dog of a film and why the hell was it made in the first place? This alleged comedy unbelievably represents the collaboration of multiple directors led by Peter Farrelly and a huge roster of name actors including Richard Gere, Hugh Hackman, Naomi Watts and Halle
Read moreThe title Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is disturbingly reminiscent of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and unfortunately so is the film’s quality. What could have been either an exciting, funny supernatural romp, a Princes Bride style fractured fairy-tale or a genuinely creepy horror movie ends up as a clumsy, noisy yet dull action film. A miscast Jeremy Renner and Gemma
Read moreAbraham Lincoln is such a towering and mythic figure in American history it seemed inevitable that American cinema’s great story teller Steven Spielberg would make a film about him. Lincoln is not, however, the emotionally manipulative epic we might have expected from Spielberg, instead it’s a dour, low-key and thoughtful look at an introspective and conflicted man. Like the Hitchcock
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