With leads like will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, two of the biggest comedy stars of the last 30 years, it would be reasonable at first glance to expect Downhill to be a laugh fest. This is, however, a Hollywood remake of the lauded Swedish drama Force Majeure, a film that had it quirks but wasn’t exactly a riotous romp. Here,
Read moreThe touching and highly relevant romantic crime drama Queen and Slim reworks the Thelma and Louise ‘couple on the run’ story to incorporate the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. In a scenario that could have been plucked from recent headlines, Tinder dating African American couple, defence attourney, Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) and the unassuming Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) are pulled over while driving
Read moreHoney Boy is a slightly fictionalised account of Shia LaBeouf’s life as a child actor and later as a troubled young man screaming his way through therapy in a rehab facility. Given the less-than-flattering response to some of his performances, the idea of a film based on the life of Shia LaBeouf, starring the man himself, will, for many movie-goers,
Read moreMiss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears is the big screen adaptation of the TV murder mystery series, based on the Kerrie Greenwood novels, that ran from 2013-2015 and featured Essie Davis as the eponymous 1920’s devil-may-care sleuth, Phryne Fisher. Miss Fisher’s substantial fan base clearly found the show’s demise a lot to bear and as a result, have crowd
Read moreIn his tense, creepy, if at times predictable interpretation of HG Wells’ The Invisible Man, Aussie writer/ director Leigh Whannell has turned the story into family violence nightmare that echoes films like Sleeping With The Enemy and Gaslight. Elizabeth Moss plays Cecilia, the victim of controlling and manipulative husband, Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who keeps her a virtual prisoner jn his
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