Earlier in the year we were treated to Olympus Has Fallen, an outrageously silly exercise in warped patriotism and gun worship in which Gerard Butler‘s former secret service agent single-handedly repelled a terrorist attack and saved the US President following a White House invasion. It was Die Hard in the White House and a film in which any connection to
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Read moreCinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore evokes Hitchcock with his latest film The Best Offer, a strange, fascinating and intricately crafted story of romantic obsession, high art and anxiety disorders. Geoffrey Rush stars as Virgil Oldman a wealthy and powerful British art dealer and auctioneer operating in Rome. Elite in his field and an elitist in general, Virgil’s pompous, irascible and
Read moreStoker is a bizarre, hypnotic American gothic thriller which, as might be expected given its title’s reference to Dracula author Bram Stoker, revels in an atmosphere of menace. The prolific Mia Wasikowska stars as the sullen and taciturn teenager India Stoker who lives a Carrie-like existence with her comically flaky mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) in a large dilapidated southern mansion.
Read moreThe Rocket, an Australian production set in Laos is a charming, poignant sometimes weird humanist drama about family breakdown, western corporate greed, the enduring impact of the Vietnam War on Laos and the interpersonal bonds that carry people through awful times. The film is told largely from the perspective of Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) a young Laotian boy burdened with the
Read moreIMAX documentary, The Earth Wins is a less ambitious cousin to films like Koyaanisqatsi and Samsara. Like those films it’s composed of stunning images and music and has no dialogue or narration. The film presents remarkable aerial shots (courtesy of aerial film specialists Helifilms) of some the most astonishing places on Earth including vast urban slums, African grasslands, the sprawling
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