For the first fifteen minutes of the slow-moving Argentinian crime drama, Everybody Has a Plan, audiences will be wondering what the hell is going on. The film jumps back and forth between various scenarios, each of which features Viggo Mortensen as an apparently different character. In one he’s a clean-cut doctor, in another a dishevelled and disillusioned husband to wife
Read moreBuilt For Speed – Playlist – Friday 28th June 2013 CITAY – Careful with that hat. BLONDIE – Dreaming. LED ZEPPELIN – Dazed and Confused. RADIO BIRDMAN – Aloha Steve and Danno. (Aus) MANIC STREET PREACHERS – Australia. THE CULT – Lil’ Devil. YOU AM I – Who put the devil in you. (Aus) WENDY SADDINGTON – Looking through a window. (Aus)
Read moreShaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies showed that there is something inherently comical about zombie movies. These films suggested that the sight of actors in bad makeup staggering around and chewing on people’s intestine had become ridiculous and lost its ability to shock. In that light, Brad Pitt’s latest film World War Z seemed to be courting ridicule with
Read moreWith its atmosphere of clinical creepiness, the slow-burn biotech horror film Errors Of The Human Body tries to evoke the menace David Cronenberg but is let down by a slow and uninvolving story. Set within the world of cutting edge genetic research and filmed at an actual medical facility in Dresden, Germany, this film features Michael Eklund as renowned scientist
Read moreMonsters University is a prequel to the highly successful 2001 film Monsters Inc. which was a clever and very endearing parody of both the corporate world and monster movies. In that film monsters entered the human world to frighten kiddies in their beds and in a fine example of renewable energy, used the children’s screams to power the monster world.
Read moreSatellite Boy, the debut cinematic feature for writer/ director Catriona McKenzie, is an amiable, well-meaning but dramatically flat story of an aboriginal youth’s journey of self-discovery. Newcomer, Cameron Wallaby plays Pete, a 10-year-old boy who lives on a remote and dilapidated drive-in site in the Western Australian desert. As his mother (Rohanna Angus) is away in the city trying to
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