With a string of successful and critically acclaimed films such as The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, David O Russell was poised to become one of the defining film makers of the 2010’s. But after 2015’s Joy, he seemed to disappear from our screens and became the subject of reports of controversial on-set incidents. One of those confrontations
Read moreBenediction, the latest film from revered English director Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) intelligently and movingly dramatizes the life of famed poet, Siegfried Sassoon. The film depicts Sassoon as an artist who, despite objecting to Britain’s continued participation in the First World War and to entrenched British values, was celebrated by British high society. The film also reveals his
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Tom Molyneux has a great story to tell. His great great uncle is Allan McDonald, a “Fighting Gunditjamara” man and one of the first Aboriginal soldiers from Victoria to enlist in WW1. Serving in the Australian Light Horse at Gallipoli and the Battle of Beersheba, uncle Allan’s fight continued when he returned home, battling institutionalised racism to improve rights and
Read moreTolkien is the literate, sophisticated but occasionally lacklustre biopic of The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien. Directed by Finn, Dome Karukoski (The Grump) the film sees Tolkien as a young officer (Nicholas Hoult) in the hell of the trenches in First World War France. Wounded and delirious he recalls his early life in which he
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