In the noble tradition of Old Dogs, Grown Ups and Hot Tub Time Machine comes The Worlds End, another low-brow comedy about a group of middle aged guys desperately trying to relive the glory days of their wayward youth. Starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World’s End is the last in a loosely connected comic trilogy that also includes
Read moreBlokes You Can Trust documents the chaotic career of one if Australia’s finest cultural exports, The Cosmic Psychos. Punk icons, godfathers of grunge, farmers, these are expressions that don’t always go together but in the Cosmis Psychos’ case they do and it’s this bizarre combination of qualities that makes the Psychos such a phenomenon. The film, directed by Matt Weston
Read moreClearly influenced by playwright Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, What’s in a Name depicts a dinner party among alleged French intellectuals that descends into bitter conflict. Biting and perceptive, if at times over the top, What’s In a Name cleverly skewers French middle class pretensions. The film stars Charles Berling and Valerie Benguigi as Pierre and Elisabeth, a
Read moreThis Is The End is a juvenile, indulgent lark that operates under the dubious belief that Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jonah Hill might be amusing or remotely entertaining playing themselves. In what seems to have been an idea cooked up over excessive amounts of beer, pizza and bongs, This is the End sees Rogen and his long-time Canadian compatriot
Read moreThere’s something about the rarefied heights of superstardom in America that produces eccentricity bordering on craziness. From Elvis shooting the TV to Michael Jackson living in an amusement park with lamas, it seems that the power and fame bestowed upon stars irreparably warps their sense of reality. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the person of outrageously flamboyant piano
Read moreAmid the onslaught of chaotic, brain-pummelling effects-driven computer games posing as movies comes romantic drama Before Midnight, a film that actually relies on character development and intelligent dialogue. Before Midnight is the concluding chapter in the trilogy director Richard Linklater began in 1995 with the much-praised Before Sunrise. That film saw itinerant American student Jessie (Ethan Hawke) and French student
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